Banality
Amazing. Great. Awesome. Cool. Adjectives we uses as sentences. How little we have to talk about! That we resort to such banality. Continue reading Banality
Amazing. Great. Awesome. Cool. Adjectives we uses as sentences. How little we have to talk about! That we resort to such banality. Continue reading Banality
New patterns of caution and proximity have asserted themselves. If I am on the street (a big if), I have to be walking but never intersecting. Oh, and the second-guessing and self-monitoring: Is that masked person contagious? Should I be avoiding that group of people in front of me? Did I forget to sanitize after the elevator key? Did I touch the gate handle on my way in? Do I have a temperature? Do I feel normal? Is this just the usual headache? Continue reading Anxieties of a tragedy unforeseen
All is not well. Things are not fine. These are uncertain, anxious times. Continue reading anxiety
We stare without seeing. We hear without listening. We text without talking. Continue reading without
I was standing in a crowd,
thinking vaguely about nothing,
when it came to me. Continue reading separateness
How dependent I am,
on the familiar, the memorized,
to find my way,
around places, around people. Continue reading how
I wonder –
If distance between our minds ever evaporates,
Or the memories of time spent together rarely overlap. Continue reading wonder
I wonder if we could talk more often?
I wonder if we could walk more often? Continue reading conversations
New YorkNovember 10, 1958 Dear Thom: We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers. First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you. Second — There are … Continue reading John Steinbeck’s Letter to His Lovesick Son