My constant companion some 50 years on now, Cut-down, battled, then some armistice, After a time wrestled fiercely again, waylaid, then an uneasy détente, Overall an ebb, flow, and do it again, comes to truce, seeking solace, a bit of peace, please, a bit of peace. Changed it up the other early morning, in the …
Instant Devastation
One never knows, not the hour nor the day, when the life you know might be taken from you in an instant. We work hard to create and maintain a baseline of stability, predictability, and comfort. War on American soil, not likely; Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, millions suffering violence and bleak, hopeless living conditions, so difficult, …
Lost In A Moment
Lost in a moment, everything fine, then gone, Fire sweeps in, run for your life, consumed inferno, Voila, Then nothing but ash, nothing but ash. [Santa Ana Fires 2025]
Up, Waiting
Up waiting, waiting for what? The next shoe to drop, For her to ease up, The bill to come due, The kid to throw-up, The expectation to be lowered, The cough to subside, The lights to go out, The skin to tremble, mmm, The skin to tremble.
Ideally, Really
Ideally and really, sometimes align, most fine when they do, magic, But more times than not, not so the case, ideally disappears like vapor on a windy day, That is to say, really being serious, really sure something is gonna come up the blows up the norm, expectation, no reason to think otherwise really, Then …
Movie Feelings
Sometimes movies, the themes, the words the actions speak, sometimes they give us the parallels that help us explain things, to ourselves, if no one else. Recalling an early scene in the movie Top Gun. Navy fighter pilots on patrol over the Indian Ocean, engaged suddenly by Soviet MiGs, one American pilot somehow cracks after …
Do It Again
Kinks song comes to mind, whenever I grow weary, somehow it gives me a little boost, “ Standing in the middle of nowhereWondering how to beginLost between tomorrow and yesterdayBetween now and then And now we're back where we startedHere we go round againDay after day I get up and I sayI better do it …
Zero Inbox?
Not oft achieved in my work world, nevermind personal email, But when it happens? If you’re able to get there well, Maybe celebrate it, and even acknowledge the sense of calm and accomplishment it invokes, Zero Inbox, GOOD.
Dio
Quite the lark, quite the spark, lasted a couple days anyway, A buddy recently brought up the 80’s heavy metal album, “Last In Line”, by the band Dio, on a text thread, Ronnie James Dio, That comment unleashed a fast torrent of Wiki-reading…adding depth to the music I was already familiar with from decades earlier, …
Simply, GRATIUDE
What a year 2024, this blog flourished thanks to you all, My thoughts given further voice, reaching further still, Half full, all good the enduring message, Soul nourished by the writing / sharing, thus we continue, best to continue with, GRATITUDE
1/2_Full, All GOOD 