Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
You told me once you believed in God. The old man waved his hand. Maybe, he said. I got no reason to think he believes in me. Oh I’d like to see him for a minute if I could. What would you say to him? Well, I think I’d just tell him. I’d say: Wait…
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. – Sylvia Plath MORNING I look and I look Nary a dolphin in sight. Going sun blind here. AFTERNOON Drinking chardonnay. Listening to “Funky Town.” Already nap time. EVENING Monday night…
My quietness has a man in it, he is transparentand he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals.― Frank O’Hara There WAS a red wave in Florida. A real crimson tsunami. My wife, a registered Democrat, actually said out loud as she sealed her mail-in…
If you are looking at the midterm results and concluding that the rest of America is clamoring to be more like Florida, I think you are huffing paint. – Tim Miller “Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die,” the state’s autocratic leader crowed. Did you ever hear anything so damn horrifying and at the same…
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have. … They are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting…
Two deaths from the storm, Florida officials said, were men in their 70s who shot themselves after seeing the destruction to their property. Steve Mitchell moved around in the dark. The 80-year-old sipped vodka from a paper cup inside apartment 206 at the Venetian Bayview condominiums on Friday night, only the light of a phone…
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have? — Michael Leunig When the Crazy Prospector…
Some of the things I say are true, some are not, but it all happened. – Richard Pryor Supposed to be in Vegas for an important large family affair but no way to get there. We do not plane, not yet anyway. But the dogs already had reservations at Four Paws, so… we drove to…
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until… – Walter de la Mare Have long swung back and forth between claiming I am…
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the Weather. – Bill Hicks My…