Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
Never in a million years could I have imagined I would go up to a bank teller wearing a mask and ask for money. Well, I could, but that’s just me. I was happily married before this damn pandemic crap. Old buddies, I’ve known them a long time and they are also aged, send me…
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles. – Audrey Hepburn Never saw her coming. Just think if we had met when we were young, I said. And she replied,…
The longer we confine ourselves to a place the more it imprisons us.” – Sarah Noffke, Defects Sitting at home, feeling like a big target in some video game I’ve never played where stray bullets are coming from everywhere in growing numbers and the Sheriff is telling me he’s doing a great job. Been a month since…
I didn’t dig this hole and there’s no back door. – Barker Ajax Stuck inside my house. Do not come any closer. Wishing you were here.
October 1971. Been out of the USAFSS for a while and lost fifty-sixty pounds. I was a Facilities Protection Officer at IBM headquarters, Old Orchard Road, in Armonk, New York. Newly married to a blonde Italian co-ed, I was taking classes at Danbury State College. Studying philosophy and poetry. Mostly worked nights and played a…
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. – John Burroughs towards zero i live my life or it lives me. down the long hallway like some green gathering rolling stone i accumulate experiences that weigh on me and slow…
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. – Mary Wortley Montagu My, how soon old we get one moment, a whole life before us the next – do i mean moment…
Some dogs are too wild and gentle to live among men. – Barker Ajax I was talking to a legendary running journalist and I mentioned being on the press truck for my favorite marathon ever, the first USA Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials. 1984. Olympia, Washington. My halcyon days when I was working for Nike and…
I fear constipation more than I fear pain. A metaphor for my life. – Barker Ajax Remember the dining hall scene in the movie “Alien?” Mentioned this before. Where the monster burst out of the guy’s stomach? Seemed imminent as my supposed “benign” hernia issued more warnings. I insisted on seeing a specialist who insisted…
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. – George Sand MY PROMISE By Dan P. Brown If you were my rose, then I’d be your sun,painting you rainbows when the rains come.I’d change my orbit to banish the night,as to keep you in my nurturing light. If you were my…