“I like to prowl ordinary places. I feel sorry for us all or glad for us all caught alive together and awkward in that way. there’s nothing better than the joke of us the seriousness …
Graduation
“Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head, It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.” ― Nikki Rowe — An apology to me, time to be candor: It’s convocation season Last year, this …
The strip club
“But in the importance and noise of to-morrow When the brokers are roaring like beasts on the floor of the Bourse, And the poor have the sufferings to which they are fairly accustomed, And each …
Beaten and cheated, Part II
“Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.” ― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi — Back in march, I began writing about a true story that has been in the making for 30 years. And She …
Please, Don’t take your life
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ― Seneca — Please Don’t take your life Despite the moments Filled with despair There is power Brooding In your gut In your hands In …
Photo Challenge and a Haiku
For this week’s Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge, I present to you a Haiku (my first one, be gentle with me), and some snaps: — Roads to the unknown Guide my bottomless fancy Envy fills the …
Bike to work week
“The best way out is always through.” ― Robert Frost — I bought a bike a couple of weeks ago The sad sidewalk holding my impatient body The line of heavy-eyed crowd The flow …
Sasha Pieterse’s wedding
“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.” ― Fulton J. Sheen, …
An ode to a kitten
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer — I brought you, shivering under a thick coat of fur Into our four walls, disguised from …