Random Awesomeness

The wind blew fine, powdery snow into swirling eddies of white. It flowed through the streets, around cars and houses, depositing it's absence of colour everywhere. Erasing all form. Imposing it's chaos upon the surfaces of order. The wind blew it's angry voices into a howling choir of screams. It filled the air with a [...]

Who am I within Far too near I need come      

Yup, I got nothing more today... Too Damn Happy!!! All I got to say. There's a song with that title by one of my favorite songwriters but I don't remember any of the lyrics just now. Just the title. All I need. And the happiest thing is this fun realization of what this fun realization [...]

Everything clicks. I feel the excitement as the audience begins to sense it too. The moment is transported to that never never land of sound and rhythm. All that led me here, forgotten. The hours of contemplation, of practice, of trial an error. As if I was made to do this from the day I was [...]

The following is a piece I did for the the writer's group in the Utne Reader online community. (As I mentioned in yesterday's post) We were doing Exercise #2 of Ursula K. Le Guin’s book Steering the Craft. ------------------ After the Festival, After the festival, the station is teeming with people in traditional and not so [...]

I just had a nice conversation with my young housemates (they are 20 something and 30 something) and one of them asked me about how it felt to have been their age at a time when there was no social media (or something like that). Well, obviously there will have to be an entire story [...]

This being the first post, of something I have committed to do on a daily basis, I (of course) find myself at odds with all manner of internal demons, demigods and other distractions to the task at hand. My mind, awash with wonder as it floats around the synaptic flotsam and jetsam mired in memory's [...]