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surveying the dark and empty city

lots to write about today, but I have to record this dream. It’s another old one. I don’t know how many times over how many years I’ve dreamt this dream. maybe a dozen, maybe a hundred. I think I might… Continue Reading →

What kind of a people do they think we are?

December 7, the 70th anniversary of that cruel and barbaric attack. Winston Churchill’s speech to the US Congress on December 26, 1941, is as inspiring today as it was then. He was a true visionary, and a master orator. That… Continue Reading →

life as we knew it

Today is Sunday, August 7, 2011. Would have been 325 months. I’ve got to stop. I was listening to this song: “Life As We Know It” by Carolyn Dawn Johnson. Its one of those sappy sentimental new country ditties that… Continue Reading →

Alan Watts Blues

Today is the seventh of July, 2011. Last night I got to a point where I was pretty miserable and feeling sorry for myself, and thought “I’m going to call in sick today.” I even pecked out a message on… Continue Reading →

seven come eleven

Today is the seventh of June. After twenty seven years, Anita and I still celebrated the monthly anniversary of our wedding. For all you folks who were there, here’s to you! Its a tradition that goes back to the very… Continue Reading →

tomorrow is a long time

I once thought the line “I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps, or remember the sound of my own name” was probably one of the saddest lyrics ever. I never thought I would have to live it. This is… Continue Reading →

110510

Today would have been Anita’s 54th birthday. Its hard to have to deal with this so soon after her death, but really its no more horrible than any other day. The weather is ghastly, work is fucked up, but none… Continue Reading →

sitting in the hollywood hawaiian hotel

I’m sitting in the Southwest Airlines terminal in Baltimore-Washington airport after a long week. What I’m doing here and why it was long and stressful don’t matter now. All that matters is that I’m sitting here, and its been a… Continue Reading →

Dharmaputra

April 29, I think. It’s a beautiful day. It had been warm and humid, but a dry front came through and cooled off at night, all the way down to the 50’s and its coming up through 70 degrees maybe,… Continue Reading →

a door opens

We’re making a very difficult passage. Its been a little more than a week since Anita passed away and we’re just wrecked. Anita and I were together for about thirty years almost exactly as it turned out. We were to… Continue Reading →

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