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Tag: Life Lessons

  • Two Rivers

    photograph by adrian on unsplash It’s Complicated: Lit Up & The Writing Cooperative Contest It used to be that world and heighthad made your face a frozen stream,and ice and rock were poor disguisefor waters rushing black beneath,so cold they’d burn whoever ventured there. But down and down and further down (with gravity or other hid device)the…

  • Prophet Motives

    It’s not always about the money. Gelt. Boodle. Scratch. Sugar. Loot. Photo by Dmitry Moraine on Unsplash A friend and I were talking recently about the urgent necessity of developing alternative energy sources when the friend said, matter-of-factly, “Of course, people have to be incentivized to do that development…” We’ve all heard this mantra a hundred times.…

  • Damned Spring

    Photo by Jordan Ladikos on Unsplash Chinooks, they say, for the last few days are blowing out windows, punching at trees,teasing of spring in the deadlock grim of winter;melting snow: powdering breaths of almost-summer,hale and evocative, driving me mad.In spring I know I’ve spent another season.Damned spring. I’ve never had much use for spring;don’t like it when it comes…

  • Words and Time and Souls

    Future conditional. Words are a miracle that we too often take for granted. We toss them around like Nerf balls, forgetting how essential they are for connecting us with the reality of people and things. And language — the way we weave those words together — reflects how we move through time. Language itself is a miracle, permeating our…

  • Hate to judge but love to condemn?

    Here’s what happens when we get it backward. Years ago, I was listening to a radio report of an impending local election on a special referendum. As I understood it, the city was going to vote on the Wet Bra Issue. Well, I was immediately offended, loudly proclaiming to my partner that this nonsense was…

  • Ozone

    reluctant poetry Photo by Andrew Seaman on Unsplash Children run before the wind,bright of face and light of limb,taunting, never looking back,snubbing clouds and thunder black. And I have heard their wildish criesunderneath the soon-stormed skies. Do they fathom, as they go, the danger? Yes. They know. They know. Image by VIktor Forgacs on Unsplash © M.…

  • How I’m Making My Own Rules

    Nine of them. And you can, too. Chalk lines show where home is. Image by Mark Duffel on Unsplash People often like to say they hate rules: they believe rules are made to be broken; rules are for fools and sheeple and chumps. At their best, those rule-breakers are wildly creative and productive, bringing fresh thinking to…