“Spring 1996 … ” I hadn’t exactly forgotten about this letter, … I also hadn’t exactly expected to come across it just now. Considering, I am quite pleased the team of All*Star guardian angels yet again contrive to drop something which “shouldn’t be where it is/was”, “at just a fortuitous moment” for me. (An important […]
“It’s magnificence, indeed. It can be simple. It can be wrenching. It’s just what folks want their story to be. Including ‘purpose’, ‘accident’, ‘givens’, ‘projections’ & ‘knowing’,… And sometimes it’s just who enjoys our honest & true voice, in some context ultimately of happenstance & each our own choosing, that we end up joy-filled, dancing […]
It was the end of February, 2012, when what’s at the bottom here was written. That was the day the last dog of my family died. The spirits of these pups, the last I’ve gotten to share Life with, have been particularly strong and present these last 24 hours. On my waking this morning, there […]
Raw. The Dreams remain. Dreams continue.
When a coffee-shoppe opened, later that morning, I went in & sat at a table by myself to write this. Regulars & employees were relaxing & chatting that morning; one of their kids, got curious & came to investigate what I was up to. Thus, the alphabet. (Connor introducing himself to me […]
I drove north from Colorado that Summer. Later this April, I will have resided in Alaska for 20 years. I take pride in what I have done, what I have made (of myself), from the good advice I was given. Not sure that many expect it; some didn’t think it possible – […]
(literally. cut & pasted as typed-in over there,…) And. Simply. As nicely as we each would hope be our response to a HIGHER expectation of Care. Community. Kind. Kin. Trust. One’s Word. A fair discretion to be nice, to ‘strangers’, to ‘neighbours’, To be able, by some honest accounting, #valueforvalue, find more creative ways to account […]
Originally posted on warmbeverage:
AN OPEN LETTER to Michael Cooper of Calgary, Alberta, to the CBC radio programme The 180, to the great radio programming of the CBC in general including shows like Spark, Tapestry, Ideas, Quirks & Quarks, The Current – and many others; to those who have suffered, and do continue to suffer,…
There’s a LOT right in this World, that I should see this morning, 43. I could care-less about my ‘Ego’ in all this, ya know. I work so that I can hopefully one day feel like I’ve earned back the amazing richness of Life, of tempting Spirits; of the amazing adventures, of the diverse and […]
Years ago, on campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder, I entered a field, a practice/athletic field immediately to the east of the main stadium on campus, walking NE, towards Folsom and Arapahoe and the shopping district there. The noise and activity drew my attention, at the far end of the field, someone was […]
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