PinnedMember-onlyAs I lay hereAs I lay here, listening to the voices they are placing in my head, living my delusions, I dream. I dream I’m deaf and no longer hear. I dream I’m blind, and no longer see. And touch cannot, nor smell your sweet perfume. And not being, am. Am brave now…Love2 min readLove2 min read
Published inThe Howling Owl·Nov 22Member-onlyTo Be. To Have.On Being — When I am in one of my moods, there are times I watch lots of television. I indulge in bicycle reviews or travel vlogs. From noticing this, some observations emerge. To be: When I was first studying English many years ago, the verb to be was the first one I learned. Of…Essay3 min readEssay3 min read
Published inBlue Insights·Nov 9Member-onlyInto LivingOn reality and desire — I prefer realities to fantasies Problem is A reality requires fantasizing Desiring Speculating Wanting In order to become reality Without desire (As much as we want to ignore it) there’s nothing Without fantasies (As much as we want to demonize them) there’s no reality How will I even know you…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published inScrittura·Oct 9Member-onlyWitheringPostcard Poem — Scrittura1 min readScrittura1 min read
Published inScrittura·Sep 24Member-onlyAt The BeginningPoetry — Before the beginning was the end, and how we suffered through that end! Or maybe, there was a sense of relief, a feeling of weight lifted from our shoulders Because for us who think of ourselves as gods (of course, of a lesser order — since our miracles are questionable, …Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Published inBlue Insights·Sep 20Member-onlyAffirmationPoetry — Affirmations1 min readAffirmations1 min read
Published inThe Howling Owl·Sep 6Member-onlyGoing Back To School As An Older AdultOn fear of failure — I’m returning to school and nearing my fifth decade on Earth. I am older than before. I know, we all are. Just disregard all those poems and posts I wrote about age being only a number. At least for me, age matters today. To apply to the program I’m interested…Essay3 min readEssay3 min read
Published inBlue Insights·Aug 25Member-onlyWe Are All Floating NowEssay — Aging bodies, still mind. I am a witness of this body, its life. I am intimately intertwined with it, this body. What is age? A construct? A reminder that this life we live is one and only one? Maybe age is there to assertively tell us that there is no…Mindfulness2 min readMindfulness2 min read
Published inThe Howling Owl·Jul 19Member-onlyValparaisoReturning home — Texas is brown from the sky. How is it, in my imagination, so green? Is everything that seems so bright, and green, from below, truly brown, when we are looking from above? When I see myself in a mirror, am I brown? I wonder now, am I looking at myself from…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
