Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
After emotions are felt, expressed, where do they go? Is there a place where spent passion collects? Surely it can’t simply vaporize, disappear like smoke. There must be a secret hiding place. For every old love affair, a locked room. – Lan Samantha Chang “All I want you to know Is your love is life changing…
Feel like I just climbed a mountain and dodged a bullet at the same time. – Barker Ajax So, anyway, can’t explain why I was reading an eight-year-old New Yorker. Still pretty sick. But dealable after a week or so. No worse than going cold turkey on a good addiction, like weed or speed. I…
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife. – Malcolm X Clarence Thomas roots his…
Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it’s something we can’t easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilization of ours, perhaps it’ll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it. – Kazuo Ishiguro The water is…
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty . – Leonard Cohen Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen Well my friends…
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. – Umberto Eco So, anyway, I came across some notes from about 1995. Deep in the Siuslaw forest, feet from the river. Imagine you…
I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which I call the bullshit. I told him that it was crazy stuff and they were wasting their time, and was doing grave, grave disservice to the country. – Trump’s Attoady General Bill…
Furtive behavior is always noticed and, when noticed, inevitably raises an alarm. On the other hand, a man acting boldly and directly is viewed as honest and harmless, is not remarked upon, and is later forgotten altogether. – Dean Koontz He had tried to get along. When all his neighbors were terrified a caravan of MS-13…
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. – Antonio Porchia Pardon me if I ramble a bit. Even more than usual, I mean. All my life, people have been asking me, what the hell do you do all day? Happened again and as bad as my memory might be, I thought, I’ve been here…
Once you decide you are an artist – and mean it – the rest falls away like the clothes of a lover. – Barker Ajax The nerve of some people. Just because he says he’s my doctor. He asked me a question I often ask myself, why do you write? Good question. That’s why…