Adam With Eve – Part 2

continued from here Among the many rain-like drops falling from Eve as she emerged from the pool, a single drop, a little larger than the others, caught Adam’s eye.  He studied it in the instant that it existed, a life in the eyes of God, he imagined.  A Truth came to him cloaked in a vision.  As the drop fell, he could see it speeding up faster and faster before reaching a point where it didn’t speed up anymore.  It’s progression toward the ground was then... Read More

A Day in the Life

Recently, the town I live in held a small photo contest on facebook.  They asked local photographers to shoot “A Day in the Life of Evanston”.  I thought this could be a good idea if people participated.  So I put the date into my calendar and set myself up to take some shots.  During the week prior to the magic date, I thought of several ideas that would say, “Evanston,” but which would also showcase a certain time of day or be cool to look at.  I... Read More

What I Can Do

If you are too weak to walk, I’ll lift you on my shoulders. If you are too tired to laugh, I’ll sing you to sleep. If you are scared of your nightmares, I’ll conquor your demons. If you are hungry for contact, I’ll fill you with love. If your shoulders are shaking, my coat will fit you. If you’re longing for feedback, I was raised by a mom and two sisters. If you want to have fun at a car show, I can usually tell when my river of information has... Read More

Bring on the Cycling Dawn

  Tragedy, joy and all manner of experience befall the individual in the night, for what occurs under the purview of the moon can seldom be explained entire in the plain sight of the sun.  Is the night stronger?  Maybe the night isn’t stronger as much as we are weaker at night from being brought up to not fear the day.  Look at how we are taught…alleys are always dark and wet when they are sets for wicked deeds, the river’s journey is into the Heart... Read More

Amazing Women

LOOKING NOT FINDING Looking online for someone to date is like shopping for a car.  Too old, too young, wrong color, wrong features, looks like high-maintenance hotness, looks perfect but the seller won’t contact me back, etc.    The good thing about shopping online for someone to date is when you meet someone in person, the old trepidation is gone.  It’s like finding the perfect little red convertible on a random lot, skidding to a stop and looking for the asking... Read More

Sexahol

High school was a strange time of pre-internet sexlessness and adults warning me endlessly in varying filmstrips and interrupted lesson plans of the dangers of “Peer Pressure”. Peer Pressure (PP), I capitalize both letters intentionally, was something as strange and mysterious as any drug but with the added danger of leading to every other bad thing in life such as Drugs, Sex, Alcohol, STDs, Pregnancy, Fun at Parties, Going to Parties, Loitering, Skateboarding, Midriffs,... Read More

Glimpse

Don’t you just hate it when every time you go out to eat near the building where your ex works, you think you are going to see her, but you never do?  The only thing you can do every time you enter the outdoor seating area is quickly scan everyone’s face Terminator-style until you get the, “No Target,” return from your eyes and declare definitively, “OK, we can eat here,” to your confused friends.  But before that, the possibility of bolting... Read More

Storm before the Calm

Chained to Paris, hearts around the world spin on the axis of promises made by fairy tales of Sleeping Beauties and Prince Charmings riding up on shimmering white stallions.  Promises create a firmament holding up the tears-soaked stars like a glass hydroelectric dam.  And then the comment, or the look the other way, or the cheat or the lie shatter the too-thin myth of security in an explosion.  The betrayal drowns hearts in deep wet pillows at 2 pm on a Saturday afternoon. ... Read More

Raven

Raven alight upon my ledge Tapping at frosted glass. Barely the handle is turned when you leap inside Transforming into the Night Beauty. You sing and I am yours. I woo you, love you, make you mine You wrap your wings around me and we fly together into the sky. I grasp you close, But my hold is too tight. Your feathers wilt. You call out to the blue sky. I see you at the window again. I open it and you are free. My room is smaller now. I see your feathers upon my pillow. The... Read More

Cycles

Life and death, war and peace, being together and living apart all cycle in the nature of the seasons.  Similarly, that pattern belies a deeper truth.  That is, that even though they repeat, things are different each time, with some progression, some regression, every time around.  In war, there may be an attack on a village which is light and militaristic so as to be directed only at the enemy.  Maybe the attacker wants to visit that town later and so does not want to... Read More

Valentine’s Day Mass Cure

What is this?  Two blog posts on Valentine’s Day?  Yes, I’m trying to make up for five years of not posting anything V-Day related, or as my sister Anne calls it, Single’s Awareness Day.  So for all of my single cohorts on this most-challenging of days, I present to you a short list of reasons that it is great to be single on V-Day (in no particular order)! While you can imagine sharing Oreo cookies under a blanket in front of a fireplace with your significant... Read More

Children of an Idle Brain

It’s sad that in the past five years of blogging, despite my roller coaster love life, I’ve only posted once on Valentine’s Day.  In 2009, I wrote about saving your old emails and how it paid off in a pointless argument in CYA Email Bitch Slap.  Bad form on a day dedicated to Love, or lack thereof.  My sister Anne calls today, “Single’s Awareness Day,” which I think is pretty funny.  And as I am single today, I feel an obligation to write... Read More

Adam with Eve

The smaller fish were nibbling at his toes as he stood motionless in the shallow lake. His split rod fishing spear was held fast by his muscled left arm. A small clear strand of gut held a cardinal’s feather dangling lightly in the still parts of the water, rising and falling with the motion of passing waves. Two larger crystalfish were circling. The larger of the two bent it’s long body as Adam lowered his spear closer to the water. The feather flattened out onto... Read More

I remember this

  You’ll know if this makes sense to you: “And it starts, sometime around midnight. Or at least that’s when you lose yourself for a minute or two. As you stand, under the bar lights. And the band plays some song about forgetting yourself for a while. And the piano’s this melancholy soundtrack to her smile. And that white dress she’s wearing you haven’t seen her for a while. “But you know, that she’s watching. She’s laughing, she’s turning. She’s... Read More

Ten Minute Lunch

Today I spent ten minutes eating my lunch on the rickety wire furniture adrift in the shadow of a building.  These autumn days chill shadowed areas to blue, but I was not shivering because of the cold and the shadow was cast not by the sun, but by the presence of my former love inside.  Part of me feels resentful that my ex girlfriend now works in the same small town that I do.  Part of me loves it.  Part of me wants to tell her to get lost and give me back my town. ... Read More