Yesterday I got rid of all my old photos, my old letters and emails, my old trinkets and souvenirs. Isn’t all nostalgia false? As I scrubbed, I examined these things, things for years I had saved like treasure. I am glad I remember the truth. These were not honest records, let alone mature or expansive [...]
Archive for ‘December, 2008’
Have you ever come home after a long stay away? What was that like for you? Do you feel you have a home town?
I came to the aquarium as I always do, when it is quiet. The crowds come for feeding time. They are chasing the agitation, the water filled with bubbles, the frenzy of desire. I come for something else, to watch the creatures swim slow loops or float, hide in their pretend reefs and wait. That [...]
Have you ever broken something you were creating, and made it more beautiful or interesting as a result? Have you ever known someone so broken but all the more painfully beautiful as a result?
Have you ever wondered which kind of integrity should win, which part of your nature or your ethics you should succumb to? Are you what you do or what you want to do?


