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Something there is that doesn't love a wall
I have a nicely aged six foot cedar fence that runs across the back of my house. The backyard extends around 25 feet from the back of the house to the fence; the fence’s length along the back of the...
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The Perseids. Again, with feeling.
Reprise, rewritten, updatedFrom that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new thingsUnchained bits, released from the bonds of eternity, flailing and burning their way through the universe,...
View ArticleFamily Dirt, part 1
The last time my mother took me out to her folks' former property in the Yakima valley was when I was around 21 years old - in 1979, a hot, hot summer day. The aging,...
View ArticleFamily dirt, part 2
There is summer, and there is summer.For those who live in seasons that change, that air, that scent of heat and sun, (because the sun does smell of life and air and heat and all things hot and...
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The Grieving Room - Ebb and tide
I went home last week.It was the first time in several years, maybe six or seven years. That long drive south to the westernmost points of Oregon, south coast, highway 101. I'm always equal parts...
View ArticleStep in Time
This will be so random.I thought about the Dark Ages yesterday. It's such a curious term, of an uncertain grouping of decades and centuries. Most respected recent historians attempt to avoid...
View ArticleThe Grieving Room: the things you think you want
In the past few months, maybe a year, I've thought a lot about the things I thought I wanted. Out of life, out of myself, out of my kids, from my family in general, from my government, from my friends....
View ArticleAmerican mouth.
11:15 PMFriday night, second of January, 2009."Mom?""Yeah, Ky" I sighed, finally sitting down for the first time today in a place and at a spot that is not an automobile."I don't know what to do, I...
View ArticleI've never done this.
At least I don't recall ever doing this.For some excellent weekend reading, or as a suggestion for your Friday night literary aperitif as you prepare to delve into the New Administration's 142 page...
View ArticleThe Grieving Room - the old ways
I'll start with how my bones feel. There's an ache deep in the pocket, the socket of my left shoulder, now my right, again in my left. That pocket. I think of a billiard pocket, oddly, but the ball on...
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On Earl Avenue
Is there a soul to a house?If we call it just a house and not a home, does it still possess a soul separate from the vagaries of mortgages, layers of paint, or crayon, or grease on the walls, busted...
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my own private rubaiyat (warning - pix)
This could have been a day like others. A Spring morning, a small journey ahead, some chores to do beforehand. Dogs to water and run, clean up the yard, empty the dishwasher. I took the day off, a...
View ArticleThe Grieving Room: the fringe of consciousness
Ah hell. I attempted to start this post as a reverse "emotions" travelogue back to the time when I thought things were more stable in my life. As I track the days and weeks back, I realize that it’s a...
View ArticleHealth Care Series: Autoimmune Diseases, Collaborative Medicine
THURSDAY NIGHT IS HEALTH CARE CHANGE NIGHT, a weekly Health Care Series (cross-posted at ePluribus Media and Docudharma) In the interests of full disclosure, as I write this I'm under the influence of...
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NN09: Once upon a time in Austin 2008
I was one of the very lucky DFA scholarship winners in 2008. In all honesty - it changed my life. Before Austin After AustinNot at all fooled by the visual evidence, are you? Ah well.But it's true...
View ArticleBurying Aaron
SEATTLE -- A man has died after being shot in the head in the city's Leschi neighborhood on Wednesday night.Police said the victim was sitting in a car with two others when he got into an argument with...
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Good night and godspeed, Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, died this morning, and if you know nothing else about the Shriver family, know that she and her husband Sargent were two people who moved the world to action in ways that...
View ArticleRoy Rogers is riding tonight. Cancer and me. Update!
It's maybe four and a half, five miles from the Lowe's hardware store to the front yard of my house and most of the way I drive, the route is a very straight stretch of two lane road that looks nothing...
View ArticleNot uncomfortably bald...(photo diary)
Here's a little candid photo series about something some consider not so fun. Losing hair while undergoing chemo. At least, most folks seem sad about it as regards a few of the responses I've gotten...
View ArticleJabba and me
I had a wonderful and very sweet nurse during this fourth round of chemo ask me if I felt I'd changed or learned anything in the recent months due to my fourth stage cancer diagnosis, or had any kind...
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