Category Archives: REALITY

Ah, thunder.  Thunder!  Grey haze racing back to earth in drops like lemmings from the sea.  The man who melts in water calls me safely from our home while I with doors flung open count the raindrops rushing by–oh yes, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Shallow breathing, pacing inside and out, mouth as dry as crackers, stomach twisting, threatening, growling. And that’s only seeing my own lawyer this morning; what of tomorrow, in the judge’s court? I need this to be over.  I’m ironing out … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Reading, thinking about writing–that’s a good sign, though it’ll likely take several months to get a real opening line to run with, confounded figurework in preparation for this week’s war.  And nature.  Watching the young Cardinals grow up, now orangey-red … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I love the mornings after a summer rain.  Bluest sky washed of the marks of clouds.  Flowers vibrant, wet, lifting up their heads still crowned by sparkling sunshine caught in raindrops.  Grass is greener, leaves more broadly smiling, waving to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

First there came the smell of smoke but something else…a skunk.  As Jim and I sniffed our way outside the house we confirmed it: either a skunk was running around with his tail aflame, or the neighbors have an odd … Continue reading →

It’s always been my lucky day–what, maybe once or twice a year anyhow.  So I saw a doe as I was driving uptown this morning and she stopped by the side of the road and waited until I went by.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Michael of 2 Blowhards has a post with good links to a Mike Steinberger article for Slate regarding one of my other favorite topics, perception.  Check it out: What if You Don’t Taste What I Taste? To be honest, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I venture outside to sit in a slow watchful mood.  A monarch butterfly, heat-activated to a frenzy of hang-gliding flight goes by and by and by, with absolutely no destination in mind. Continue reading →

Lord knows what the temperature of the air is outside.  I waded through it to the mailbox and to my neighbor’s house to set her up for her return from a mini-vacation tonight. Settled in the house, working on the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Or even simple comprehension of the things that have been taken as fact.  Strange, that to access proven theories we must base it on belief that the proven theory or fact is true.  What then, when it comes to religion? … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I do try to keep my deepest ponderings to myself since those that leak out through my fingertips seem to stifle, startle, perhaps offend. For the last few years the idea of living and life, dying and death, mankind in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What? World peace?  Get real. Peace, honesty, interdependence as well as independence, justice.  Yeah, justice.  A man stopped by my shop today and told me of his ongoing four-year battle over his father’s estate.  His dad was a customer of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So nobody brought a girlfriend or a wife and it was me and five guys.  Fine by me, I get along fine with men and men-talk, and it’s easier for me to slip away for computer or reading time with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve done most of my part in preparation for some friends coming over tomorrow.  It’s usually an Only The Lonely kind of thing–folks who’ve lost their mates or never found one.  Me and the guys.  This time one of them … Continue reading → Continue reading →