William Lobb's Blog, page 22

#MLK90

I wonder if Dr. King, in 1968, could imagine that this country would be more torn and divided in 2019 than it was in that decade? I think of King and John and Bobby Kennedy often in the same thought. I wonder if the world would be a different place had they not, all three, […]

Water for Christmas

A woman commented to me this week that her Christmas was not all that she had expected. I keep this picture on my phone, I’ve had it for years. I showed her this image and said, ”You shit in cleaner water than this child will ever drink. Merry Christmas.” Facebook Twitter Google+ Email

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Merry Christmas, my brother

“Lobbzilla, when we finish this bottle I’m going to kick your ass just for fun. Stomp you so bad your mama ain’t gonna know you, just because you is such an ugly, white motherfucker.” -Hector Luis Barrara. Somehow, tell me you took all that to another place. I like to think you are out there […]

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He wanted none of it…

The realization that all of your actions speak louder than your dreams and desires. A shaky personal code that says you never strike a woman and you are good to children and old people and animals. A time in your life where you could not eat meat of any kind, for moral reasons. Many seasons […]

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The Face – from The Third Step

She read a poem from a man who had been sober twenty- two years and then relapsed. He had completely fallen apart. The poem she read was one of the last things he wrote, before his fall: Twenty-two years since my last drink, last handful of pills Twenty-two years since the night I first saw […]

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The Ace

Nick called me up on a Friday night and said he needed a ride to Newburgh Toyota Saturday morning. A little confused, I asked, “What car do you have at Newburgh Toyota?” He said, “I got no car there. They have free donuts and coffee and papers and TV. You just walk in and sit […]

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Terrorists

None ever talked about the Free Breakfast for Children program, the free health care clinics. No one ever talked about the actual genesis of the movement, what was actually happening in Oakland at the time. All we were taught was about angry, scary black men with guns. Much like the Irish defending their own country […]

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Red Ford…

I started the Mustang tonight. It’s been three weeks. I sat there and listened to the low rumble of the small block, I pushed in the clutch and touched each gear. Sitting there in the cold and dark until the engine was warm. I’m not ready to disconnect the battery, that feels Iike pulling the […]

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Storm King Art Center

I get to spend a lot of time at Storm King Art Center. I don’t claim for a moment to understand the art. I connect to something I can’t discern; a confounding beauty. The season doesn’t matter, the weather doesn’t matter. Sometimes I think cold rainy days are the best days there. In a world […]

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Veterans Day

One of the toughest and bravest guys I ever met spent the Battle of the Bulge, WWII, shitting his pants, literally. He was a 19 year old gunnery sergeant from Chester, NY. The most anti-war person I’d ever met. I always found it remarkable; here was a guy who really was a hero, volunteered to […]

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