Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower…
You said I was weak. You said I couldn’t do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong. – Steve Prefontaine Eugene. Rented a car, drove south on I-5 with a retired long-haul trucker who hasn’t talked to me since. He too is a philosopher with multiple personalities and we…
How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people. – Gabby Rivera Portland? In a sentence?? The homeless here have better sleeping bags than I do. Later I see a panhandler setting up shop outside Ben & Jerry’s, writing a new clever sign why he needs your…
I’ll go through life either first class or third, but never in second. – Noel Coward Love to be places, hate what it takes to get there. Headed to the 2015 Prefontaine Classic. Tried to minimize the torment, upgraded, with hope to expense against a book deal that never came to fruition. Trip cost a…
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot. – Steven Wright Christmas Eve Three score and sixteen years ago. Seventy-six. 76. Nine hundred and twelve months. The first half of the last century. Possibly. Old. Now. Slept in until 0648. Must…
Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides. – Guy Finley Don’t know if my vote got…
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ― Epicurus Have a question I like to ask. Never stay around for the answer. Don’t give a shit really. The answer is yours. Somebody asked you when you…
You told me once you believed in God. The old man waved his hand. Maybe, he said. I got no reason to think he believes in me. Oh I’d like to see him for a minute if I could. What would you say to him? Well, I think I’d just tell him. I’d say: Wait…
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. – Sylvia Plath MORNING I look and I look Nary a dolphin in sight. Going sun blind here. AFTERNOON Drinking chardonnay. Listening to “Funky Town.” Already nap time. EVENING Monday night…
My quietness has a man in it, he is transparentand he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals.― Frank O’Hara There WAS a red wave in Florida. A real crimson tsunami. My wife, a registered Democrat, actually said out loud as she sealed her mail-in…