Posted in Culture, Poetry, tagged family, friends, friendship, modern poetry, Poetry, Relationships on 09 Feb 2023| 2 Comments »
Do not presume that
because a heart is distant
it cannot can be read
Hearts can love or loathe,
be bound or apart, unmoved
by proximity
One can be as dear
unmet, half a world away,
as from down the street
Love can falter on
the doorstep, or reach across
the space between stars
Posted in Culture, tagged family, friends, holiday, social on 03 Jan 2019| 3 Comments »
Welcome back, folks. I hope you missed me (or at least the words I put up here), and I hope as well that your year-end was festive and full of enjoyment.
My end-of-year breaks are usually a grab bag of have-tos and must-dos mixed with a large amount of cocooning at home, trying to avoid both. For the past five years or so, they’ve also been bittersweet, tinged with grief and drama over the losses of family and friends.
The end of 2018, however, was a radical departure from that.
I actually socialized.
On purpose.
Voluntarily.
Yeah, I know. That’s crazy talk!
Posted in Seattle, tagged canlis, family, family dynamics, friends, tradition on 05 Dec 2018| 7 Comments »
Life always has the capacity to surprise. Sometimes the surprise is delightful, and sometimes it most definitely is not. This past weekend, life did what it does best, but thankfully this surprise was of the delightful strain, as I’m pretty sick of the other type. (more…)
Unraveling Time
Desert Wind
Ploughman's Son
Ploughman King
The Year the Cloud Fell
The Spirit of Thunder
Shadow of the Storm
The Cry of the Wind
Beneath a Wounded Sky
Cryptogenesis: A Memoir
Kurt R.A. Giambastiani 