[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

"this is the world as best as I can remember it"

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Attack on Titan

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  For eight years my son and I followed the saga of Erin Yeager in the Japanese anime series “Attack on Titan”.  It is a strange title in th...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Morning Fog from the Fifth Floor

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  Yesterday morning the fog sat full on the head like a bowler pulled down to ears and eyebrows. I experienced it from the fifth floor of ou...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

A View from Above

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  The huge wrap-around windows in our Neuroscience tower offer a view of the Columbus cityscape off in the distance.   This is especially t...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Sitting in Uncertainty

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  I’m learning to sit in uncertainty, balanced on a rock  in the middle of a roaring river  that seeks to sweep me away. It requires some de...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Memories of Rockwell Way

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A clown’s* former house in a cul de sac.   A pear tree in the front yard giving fruit. A sweetgum tree dropping spiky balls. A black and...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Fyodor in San Fran

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  Holy Trinity Cathedral was the oldest Orthodox church in the United States prior to the acquisition of Alaska in 1867, founded in 1857.   ...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Sputnik

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  For me writing is a way to reach out to the world  and reveal my inner thoughts but outer heart, the words sent out like the beeps of Sput...
Monday, September 01, 2025

The Half Moon

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I step out of my garage tonight into the cool evening to let Nala do her before-bedtime-business in the yard. There is a soft breeze and a ...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

The Aaroneous Monk Blog

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  It’s a screenshot of one of the very first posts I uploaded to my new blog 20 years ago.  I had been using the pseudonym “Aaroneous Monk” ...
Friday, July 18, 2025

NOT AN EXIT

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  I haven’t written anything other than poems for several months now.  My previous routine has ceased to exist due to my changing work sched...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Things on my Desk

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  The things that make up his desk may very well make up his life.   They are artifacts of a man named Aaron who once was a boy. I see Spide...
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“Aaroneous Monk” brings to mind the image of a bumbling but well-meaning hermit who continually trips himself up in his overgrown beard as he attempts to battle evil in the world but, more often than not, forgets about the darkness in his own heart. It also sounds similar to the legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, but with a faux-Greek twist. Thelonious was known for being able to maintain two disparate rhythms going at the same time with his hands seemingly disconnected from each other. That kinda sums up my struggle...
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