Random Awesomeness

I dreamed a silly dream A place I've never seen Folks I'd never think about Silly happenings They told me silly lies Of never can goodbyes Moored in magic mystery Feeble family ties Outside I saw the sea A wildness flowing free Nothing silly there I found Curiosity Deciding then to go I tried to [...]

Inhale, two, three, four, five, six... Exhale, two, three, four, five, six... Inhale, two, three, four... Exhale, two, three... Ahem... Yea... well I tried. My practice reminds me that the most important thing Is to keep practicing. I read though my book this morning From beginning to end In one sitting. Apart from a few [...]

Hi there. A while ago, my sweetheart and I decided to create a social game. And now we'd like to invite you all to play... The Naked Game. But first, we would like your input so please read on. ------ We came up with the idea while driving down to Rochester and after playing the [...]

The perfect enemy of the good A moment's expectation Usurping accommodation Thinking a thing must Behave, look and/or feel Just Exacts Visions Acts Fantastic ideals Reacts Reels I rail Thusly I fail My world wonders why And then By and by My worldliness wanders Ponders Agenda laid bare Naked Aware My love leaves no trace [...]

We make our own holidays Our time changes Everything and nothing Gone are the fears of tradition The tearful rendition No more the phony fad tunes Artifice, nom de plume Give us not We take our own solo-days Our shine ranges Everywhere and nowhere Here is the joy and the sadness The odd random gladness [...]

I'm walking through the narrow streets of a very old city. There is dirt and dust everywhere. The buildings on either side of the street I'm on now, are all at least three stories high. One has tall white pillars and crumbly sides. The stairs are crumbly too. I am suddenly drawn inside. Someone in [...]

“If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.” ------ Warren Buffett ---------------------------------------------- I've been pretty bad at managinging my money most of my life, so I found it interesting this morning to discover that I share such feelings of gratitude with [...]

I was going to write a poem But I didn't All that matters... Is now.

They can spot the culprit And magnify it on a screen Those scientists and doctors Can pinpoint that nasty gene And with a little engineering They can take that wayward train And they can get it back on track So you're smart, straight, thin, and sane ------ Loudon Wainwright III ------------------------------------------------- Last night I watched [...]

Things do get old. They dry up and fold. Decrepit dermis. Decay and mold. Climate of sin. On succulent skin. Will crinkle and crack. Ooze from within. Still is the bone. Not written in stone. Moving like marrow. There to atone. Come not the end. This body, this friend. Nurture its nature. And live on [...]