Category: Philosophy
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Five Minutes
This happened in 1999. I think about it pretty often. Christmas Eve. One of my favorite times of all. The Winter Solstice is warm next to this event promising rebirth. Part of my world was ending, because I was getting divorced from a relationship I’d thought was going to last our lifetimes.I’d left LA to…
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“How Old Are You?”
In the movie “Almost Famous” the groupie and the fledging journalist attempt a taboo topic – finding out how old the other person is. I haven’t seen it for a long while but the two seesaw downward until the groupie says “The truth just sounds different.” The boy immediately says he’s a year younger still.…
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MIA Friday Post explained
Missed my Friday post last week. The reason was not the minor surgery, but the people-complication/abdication, that put me in a very dangerous place. The details are a snore but the lesson – people are more important than they give themselves credit for – deserves some air time. Please don’t bail! I keep erasing the…
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Restraint
2022’s Christmas Tree is six days old and as of this writing, the person most likely to re-decorate it – my kitty, Smöl – has not even gazed longingly at it. Smöl is using the chilly day to have her afternoon nap in the flannel sheets and blankets. Had I not seen her tail disappearing…