2016-03-19 18:53
"We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant. When such an instant… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
"The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium." -- Norbet Platt
I've written abou… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
"We read to know we are not alone." - C.S. Lewis
So, while this is embarrassing, it is also an important confession. It has been over a year-and-a-half since I have read a book. A novel. He… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
There have only been a few things that have truly perturbed me about my relocation, though most of their particular mall church when you open an account--even that, I anticipated. Nice peopl… Read More
2013-11-10 01:24
It's always fun for me to hear that others have the same quirks as I do when it comes to having neurotic preferences such as what font to use when one sits down at the keyboard. I imagine it… Read More
2013-11-10 00:45
"Baseball knows no limits, and the true baseball field, the foul lines diverge forever, eventually taking in most, or all of the universe." - WP Kinsella
It was funny for me to find, having… Read More
2013-11-06 06:00
"Poets and intellectuals—who are paid little, and who are usually ignored by the general population—have this consolation, at least: they are the ones the tyrants go after first… Read More
2013-09-27 16:21
Back from the great white north, which was not as white as it had been until recently, but also not as green as the city I returned to, which had taken to bursting into full-leaf overnight… Read More
2008-04-19 10:39
So, two years, almost to the the date of moving to my new digs in Astoria and starting my life over, I find myself having packed up and doing pretty much the same thing all over again. This… Read More
2008-04-18 21:40
It would figure that my first post after moving away from NY would be to recount an evening during my first trip back to my hometown ... However, the long weekend trip back was perfectly tim… Read More
2008-04-18 00:11
A little over a year ago, I sat at my computer, boxes packed, killing time looking for new music to dance my future memories to. I think I searched for "Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave."… Read More
2008-02-28 22:27
"... the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplac… Read More
2007-09-12 01:53
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } “The moment… Read More
2007-09-11 10:59
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Yes, ladies and ge… Read More
2007-06-21 10:14
It's March, 2007. A new year and a little over a year since I started up this little space. It's been quite a long while since I've had the time--and the time to think--to post here. So much… Read More
2007-06-17 01:36
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Reading is dead … Read More
2007-04-17 01:52
Goodbye Sky HarborIs tomorrow just a day like all the restHow could you know just what you did? So full of faith yet so full of doubt I ask Time and time again you said don't be afraid If yo… Read More
2007-04-14 18:14
Ah, justice ... what comes around, comes around again, apparently ... and so, it seems that I've gotten myself another tag. This time courtesy of (parenthetical remarks). So here we go with… Read More
2007-04-14 17:00
"Catherine Tekakwitha, who are you? ... Do I have any right to come after you with my dusty mind full of the junk of maybe five thousand books? I hardly even get out to the country very ofte… Read More
2007-04-14 16:53
Must brush away the layers of dust I've allowed to accumulate these past couple of months where I let this space sit idly while life continues to move ever faster and in more head-spinning w… Read More
2007-04-14 16:52
two years + two ... too many"Syntax, according to Norman O. Brown, is the arrangement of the army. As we move away from it, we demilitarize language. This demilitarization of language is co… Read More
2007-04-14 16:52
It's National Poetry Day (or it was). One of those frou-frou days I cringe at, though I suppose it serves a purpose for that part of the population that isn't usually reminded of the world o… Read More
2007-04-14 16:50
“I knew it was a song about Montreal, it seemed to come out of that landscape that I loved very much in Montreal, which was the harbour, and the waterfront, and the sailors' church the… Read More
2007-04-14 16:50
I read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when I was in college. One of the children's lit classes I took--funny how I always knew that was where my heart would lie. It's a complicated tale, m… Read More
2007-04-14 16:48
"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before… Read More
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