I read a haiku today. “ill-tempered I returned, and then in the garden the willow tree.” There’s something about a willow tree, the way it extends a caring arm to hold you close. Protected, I read by its trunk as it swayed in the breeze. It reached for the water, if nothing more but for [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Willow.
Posted in my life, tagged garden, haiku, japan, peace, reading nook, summer, tree, willow tree on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Triple Shot. (Perfect Death Edition)
Posted in Triple Shots, tagged blogging, Camus, death, hemingway, maya, Oscar Wilde on July 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ernest Hemingway died by shooting himself with a shotgun in the mouth. It wasn’t a pistol. It wasn’t in the temple. It wasn’t by someone else’s hand. It was a shotgun, he pulled the trigger, and the shot went into his mouth. There is no other way that Ernest Hemingway could have died. For him, [...]
my brother is a shark.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brother, shark on July 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Memory and Baseball
Posted in my life, tagged baseball, brother, ee cummings, forgetting, home town, loss, memory, park, photographs, space suits, toxic waste on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
love is more thicker than forget. – ee cummings There is a park in my hometown that was built on a toxic waste dump. I played baseball there and remember warm evening sun and tanned faces, the feeling of the ball in my glove as I grabbed it from the sky, and the nervous [...]
Cheese, Trains and Cracks.
Posted in short shorts, tagged battles, cheese, guitar, keyboard, madonna on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Toby looked like an old boxer and told stories about playing rhythm guitar for Madonna before she made it big. “She got caught stealing cheese,” he told me. “We went into grab sandwiches and she put a whole wheel of cheese in her bag. When we went outside, the guy stopped her and she acted [...]
Triple Shot. (Relationship Edition)
Posted in Triple Shots, tagged boyfriend, ellen, ghandi, girlfriend, piercing, sister on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have a friend who met a girl in a bar who casually dropped that she had gotten her genitals pierced. He insisted she was lying and insisted again and again. They’ve been dating for two years now. ——- I read something today about a girl who asked her boyfriend to hangout and he said [...]
Chicago skyline from across the lake.
Posted in places, tagged chicago, skyline on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Urban Ruins.
Posted in places, tagged cathedral, Gary, indiana, michael jackson, ruins, theater on July 6, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Gary, Indiana, Michael Jackson’s birth place, was once one of the most thriving cities in America. It was a steel town and its fortunes rose with the steel boom that made our cities’ skylines what they are today. After a decade of prosperity, with rising competition and falling profits, US Steel, the town’s main plant, [...]
Cops and Yogis.
Posted in my life on July 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I heard a story today talking to my yoga teacher that last Sunday, when she opened her home studio, the neighbors called the police because of the early morning chanting. The neighbor said she didn’t know what was going on, but that the chanting was disturbing the Sunday morning peace. By the time the cops [...]
Triple Shot. (First Class Edition)
Posted in Triple Shots, tagged ellen, first class, hotel, napkins, omelette, orange juice, vegetable on July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was offered to switch my flight to the next day in exchange for a first class ticket, a free round trip ticket to anywhere, a night at a hotel, and a vegetable omelette. ——- In first class, they put a large napkin on my tray table before the meal, handed me a napkin for [...]
