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Cicada Song

You are tired  Your heart wrung out lies limp spent exhausted  Your mind fuzzed by events shackled by twin weights    of isolation    of jailed desires is rendered senseless numb The parade of days a monotony    of toil    of grief    of sameness  The calendar arbitrary divisor of time paints illusions    of separation    of change where none truly exist  New year! Flip the page! It’s supposed to be different!  Yet, it […]

Natalia and Jess

Natalia has been with me for over forty-five years; Jess over fifty. I love them both dearly, and I want nothing for them but the best and fullest that life can offer. Which is why it's time for them to go.

Summing it Up

As the last four years enter the realm of memory, one image is strong in my mind: ================= Guardian of Forever : TIME HAS RESUMED ITS SHAPE. ALL IS AS IT WAS BEFORE. MANY SUCH JOURNEYS ARE POSSIBLE. LET ME BE YOUR GATEWAY. Lt. Uhura : Captain, the Enterprise is up there. They’re asking if we want to beam […]

I Miss the GOP

During one episode's Sunday dinner scene, I turned to my wife and said, "One thing I like about this show: they're all Republicans."

Scars on My Heart, To Date

22 Nov 196319 Oct 196404 Apr 196809 Aug 197427 Nov 197806 Oct 198128 Jan 198609 Nov 198919 Apr 199511 Sep 200115 Jul 202006 Jan 2021 JFKMomMLKRFKMilk/MosconeSadatChallengerBerlin WallOK City9/11BrotherAmerica

Day’s New Year

breathe deep the morning’s misttaste the chill stony silenceinvite the soul of winter’s patienceinto a warm, life-loving heartand be at peace

Hey, Kiddo

I get annoyed when people mispronounce their own surnames.

Make It Stop

Its one thing for my rabid right-wing-nutter Uncle Earl to run about in his tin-foil hat and go on and on about stolen elections and massive fraud at the polls. Its entirely another thing when elected officials do the same. Crazy Uncle Earl didnt take an oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution. Elected []

I Read

By the full moon's light / I read

Firefly: Generations – Book Review

The previous titles in this series were (to put it mildly) a tremendous disappointment. Lebbon, though, improves upon those titles by an order of magnitude, if not more.