celticman
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carpe diem
At a personal level I don’t like funerals much. Life everlasting gets a trifle wearing. Leave it the professionals and all that. I brief the priest...
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Trigger
Homes built by spread sheets Sterling flows half-level to half level Splitsection soundaspace Stuck-up tower blocks. Designed by gods Jean or Jacques...
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thank-you notes
I wrote thank-you notes as a child. A thick HB3 pencil in my chubby mit. The pencil sharpener on the teacher’s desk, head height, was a big thing...
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Bernie the bolt.
I got a text message on the way back from Dalmuir Station. I checked my phone. Saw it was from Bernie. “Cm up & see me,” it read. His flat was...
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organist and monkey
The organ, off-kilter as a bagpipe chord, begins the first hymn. Major keys and minor key dance around the usual dirge. Funeral music. The...
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life is thinking out loud.
Posted on Sun, 22 Jul 2018
life is thinking out loud. and laughing (sometimes).
Read full commentPosted in HERE I SIT
sometimes we forget how much
Posted on Tue, 03 Jul 2018
sometimes we forget how much we have. pack what you can hold sums up our riches.
Read full commentPosted in Go Now
yes, hopefully it will always
Posted on Tue, 26 Jun 2018
yes, hopefully it will always be like this, or at least for a while.
Read full commentPosted in a break from hoovering
watch out for cliches, like
Posted on Sun, 03 Jun 2018
watch out for cliches, like 'turned up trumps' (especially with the monstrosity of a Trump that trumps most cliches). wolf and stuck pig. rougher end. gotten so deep. phoney war. most trusted confidantes
Read full commentPosted in Through War & Adversity - Chapter 3 - Part I
I wanted to know more. Really
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
I wanted to know more. Really enjjoyed reading it.
Read full commentPosted in Something Hard Inside Him (Part 2)
slides from metaphor to
Posted on Thu, 12 Apr 2018
slides from metaphor to madness and evil with spring-heeled ease.
Read full commentPosted in Big Cat
yeh, captures that remebrance
Posted on Sat, 07 Apr 2018
yeh, captures that remebrance of things lost and people lost too in their own home and in their mind.
Read full commentPosted in Visiting Mom
amen to that and halleluiah
Posted on Sun, 01 Apr 2018
amen to that and halleluiah too because this is so true.
Read full commentPosted in Alternative Prayer of Remembrance, Easter 2018
you're mirroring Pirsig's
Posted on Sun, 25 Mar 2018
you're mirroring Pirsig's take in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Read full commentPosted in Mechanics & Artists
wonderfully perceptive
Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2018
wonderfully perceptive storytelling. Kayla Stella Nue rings true.
Read full commentPosted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part twelve)
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