Posts Tagged ‘friendship’
What is the most free you have ever felt, and was it at the same time the most crazy? The most intoxicating? If you did not edit yourself, would you seem insane?
One of my best friends put it something like this, “The next morning, my outgoing message list breaks my heart.” Tell me about your drunk text experiences.
Let’s talk about scale! My friend, Tim Maly, writes a blog called Quiet Babylon, and in this post he discusses scale: http://www.quietbabylon.com/2009/05/29/6-things-that-give-me-a-crushing-sense-of-scale/ These Secret Vespers installments are tagged with scale, though many others could be. That crushing sense is one of the hardest sensations for me to put to words. Like love, hope, and so [...]
There is always another way out. Your same imagination that has you in its trap can have you anywhere else. Have you ever known someone who came to the brink, believed in the trap, then found a way free?
Herman knows all about your issues and calls you out on them every chance he gets. But who is he? Who does he think he is?
I don’t have a plan in the world. I have the wide open sky and a bag of dried mangoes. My last girlfriend called them slices of sunshine. I have kept the phrases my friends and I made up. A teenager is “a case of ginger ale”, empty praise from the human resources director is [...]
When the markets began to crash, I thought they’d bottom soon. I bet on a rebound that never came. My pulse raced at the financial news, the win so tangible, the loss so unthinkable. Now, they say that hope has strength, but I can tell you, it does not have effect. Every day, another one [...]
What are the ways you might pull yourself apart, and what do the results look like? This is the second in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/


