Life's a dance we all have to do why does the music quiet... People are moving together close as the flames in the fire... feel the beat, music and rhyme while there is time... We all go 'round and 'round partners are lost and found... looking for one. more. chance. All I know is... We're all in the dance.....
Maybe this is all too typical of how we (have to) deal with events in our world which drive us crazy. If I write that I want to balance my extraordinary frustration (emblematic of Jon Stewart in my previous post) with another post that will make me feel better, does that belittle the tragedy, even only as far as I feel it? Does…
During the fall 2014 semester, I was enrolled in a graduate course called "Hate Speech, Manifestos, and Radical Writings. Needless to say, it was quite intense. I enjoyed it because it pushed the boundaries of creativity and passionate expression. Of course I had to compose my own manifesto. While I received a (generous) 95% grade for it, I wish I had done a better…
November exits stage left, enter December heavy lifting through blue-gray brightness ushering in the unalterable solitude. Hallelujah
The following is a "cut & paste" of a discussion post I recently wrote for my "Hate Speech, Manifestos and Radical Writings" class. This class permits more informal discourse which I greatly appreciate. I guess for now I'll let this stand without any additional aggrandizement. *** The readings for the last discussion post of the semester are apropos of the current “main…
Variety is the spice of life. It's true as far as I know. Many who know me tend to consider me at best quirky, and at worst, well, I'll leave that adjective to them. But since I was 14 years old, I've never been "out of work". I've experienced many different environments and a slew of employers. I've gained knowledge, competencies and empathy…
You may have noticed some significant changes to my blog's appearance this weekend. Well I have two questions for you; do you like the new look? And secondly, why are you even here reading this? Did you lose a bet? Okay, that's three questions, sorry. Anyway, it's been a couple of months since I've posted anything new here so I thought maybe I…
After posting a stream-of-consciousness essay that in retrospect would likely punish any reader (as in, "I'm not going to get that 15 min of my life back"), suffice it to say it is time to move on. Bigger and better days are (usually) ahead. Of course, every now and then- okay, every day- one would hope that a few of those bigger and…
Before but not quite after..Finished 5 months of restructuring my physical presence here on Earth. Suffice to say that I take up a lot less space than I used to. Dropping (so far) a small child's worth of weight (37 lbs), I am now finally going to reach the undiscovered country that is the 160's. By Saturday after our 200 yard move,…
I changed my fall schedule again and this time (okay, starting NOW) I am ready to move forward. I had to eat a couple of books I bought on Amazon for this class (albeit with a gift card), but I simply could not get excited about "The Evolution of Ideas". At first glance I thought that a class with that title would be right…