Friday Night
hey do you know my dad do you know his name do you have a telephone book so I can look him up I miss my dad so much he left me a code so... More »
hey do you know my dad do you know his name do you have a telephone book so I can look him up I miss my dad so much he left me a code so... More »
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Thundering herds of cicadas came out this week. Millions. Well yeah, right, they don't thunder, but they do make a sound like a flying saucer landing on the White House lawn. Or maybe on the... More »
I'm in the woods, almost sleeping, in my portable woods-womb, a mummy (ha!) sleeping bag of prodigious insulating capability. Trees creak in the middling wind, icy puffs of air blow across my face, but my... More »
I like my work as a field instructor at a therapeutic wilderness boarding school. Actually, I love it, and for reasons that escape me it turns out that I'm good at it. I'm the guy... More »
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. --Gustave... More »
This is a re-post from back in another work-life. I thought I'd do it because rabbits seem to be proliferating in Zaadzland. There's Jeannie's , and Peri's (steel no less), and many more. This is... More »
Below is an email I wrote last night. It describes a short interval at my place of employment. I've changed a few things for confidentiality reasons, but I thought I'd position the reality of my... More »
It's official. It's all over between me and '(s)he who must be obeyed.' (Thanks Rumpole !) No more slogging into big rectangular-prism shaped buildings, those blocky uglinesses bedecked with corporate logos, working on empty things,... More »
Every once in a while things just seem to happen and your life takes an unexpected turn. Most of my work life has been about using my brains or brawn to directly effect things ;... More »