The Life of Brian (In the Now)

It was a chill day all round. A good day. A leisurely loquacious morning with a new housemate. Later... a lazily languid and largely laconic drive. My sweetheart then chimed in... in fine form. At around 10:27 PM my sweetheart responded to my "Hey sweetheart, how's your day going?" and reported a fine start to her [...]

"The only thing that is constant, is change" ------ Heraclitus of Ephesus "All you need is love" ------ John Lennon -------------------------------------------- The power went out last night and didn't get back on till noon today, so I went for an early lunch at the local "Down to Earth" health food market to try and write. Try [...]

Doing a bit of cleaning this morning, I come across a small drawing made for me by my dear friend's daughter. I believe she was ten years old at the time. I keep it on my desk in a small, raku, porcelain pinch-pot (made by someone I knew in college but have now forgotten who) [...]

6:15 am and I've been up for hours. Jet lag has just begun. I sit now in front of the big screen... trying to compose this. Again I delete what I just wrote a moment ago. Again I look at what I just wrote and consider doing it again and... Again. Two and a half [...]

In between love And trying to scheme love Who can say what we will find? ------ Tom Waits ---------------------------------------------- Ten minutes and I'll board my flight. Ten minutes and I'll be on my last leg of this, my return to Oahu. A man passes by and comments on my guitar case. "Looks like that baby's [...]

Having filled the handy little device with my sweetheart's favorite... Cameron's Whole Bean Organic Velvet Moon, I pick up the old Toastmaster grinder (that she found at a garage sale so long ago for all of three dollars) and give it a shake while holding down the switch. It helps grind the coffee beans more [...]

6:50 am... This still dark Minnesota morning maintains my mildly melancholy mood. It will be getting light soon but that matters, at all not much. I write in relative silence as the not too distant (but not too annoyingly close) continuous beeping of my sweetheart's son's alarm... continues. It's getting so I'm accounting it as [...]

"Gray-Brown, White-Gray... Tawny-Slate New Landscape... Not Dirty Yet." ------ Text from my Sweetheart ------------------------------------------------------------- Inspiration comes at random. From wherever I happen to be looking at the time, whatever I happen to be paying attention to or thinking about. Sometimes it just drops in my lap like a clump of snow or my sweetheart's hand. [...]

It's all a bit surreal to me now. I sit here in the seventeenth floor lobby of the Mayo Clinic Gonda Building and look out over the pedestrian mall below. Just a little over two months ago, I was in this very spot and things were very different indeed. Back then, I was sweating bullets [...]