Kurt R.A. Giambastiani's Blog, page 23
February 12, 2020
V-Day Quandary
I didn't plan it, but a while ago I hit on the perfect solution to the annual Valentine's Day stress-test, i.e., devising something romantic to do on V-Day.
February 6, 2020
Blanket Fort Time
It's been a bad week. I need some time in my blanket fort.
January 30, 2020
Lock Them Up
This week, I began to obsess about another old letter writing technique: letterlocking.
January 23, 2020
The Long Eve of the New Year
It is that time of year when I take my slouch hat off its peg, step into my old green Wellies, head out into the garden, and contemplate shallow graves. Last week, heavy winds cracked a twenty-foot long limb on the windward side of my blue spruce. As the limb fell the fifty or so […]
January 16, 2020
Seattle’s Winter Whine
Winter. A lot of complaining gets done in winter. A _lot_ of complaining.
January 9, 2020
Holding Infinity
thoughts upon thoughts
January 3, 2020
Old Man (Board) Gamer—We Did a Thing
The holidays are over and my brain is filled with rants, but each time I started a post on one, I stopped myself. I'm pretty sure regular readers don't want to hear about that—not from me, anyway—so I'm moving on to something completely different.
December 19, 2019
The Gratitude Game
Gratitude, I have found, is a very powerful tool. It has the power to relieve my stress and infuse me with joy. It increases my empathy for others. It restoreth my soul.
December 12, 2019
Return of the Serif
The 2000-oughts and -teens have been a Spartan period, where society repeatedly pared and trimmed and shaved away at norms, ushering out elements deemed unnecessary in favor of brutal efficiencies and ever-more-draconian austerity plans.
December 4, 2019
22,280 Days
Today I celebrate an age I never thought I’d see and reflect on those moments when my river’s course was shifted from its banks by arrivals departures separations reunions by decisions to love to hate to forgive to survive Today, I am the sum of every decision every event every question every answer But that […]
