When thirty nine sashayed in with her bodacious tatas and voluptuous curves I panicked. My dormant radar quivered to life. “Beware: Temptation.” flashed the neon pulse. And I knew. Heed not Calypso's hypnotic hips and waspy midriff, those painted lips, that coquettish paisley smile, her saccharine song. I knew it was a trap. (Source: "Calypso", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) A ...
Creeper
Caribbean creeper. Colorful crawler. Courageous. Pending pedestrians. Creeper kin calamities... ...
Desiderata
Desiderata Early mornings Velvet winter Sunny slopes Playful bride Ample walkabout Precocious spring Fertile flow Sumptuous sunrise Eternal cyclabouts Taffy byways Kinful summer Robust gardens Languid waters Vibrant autumn Scudding seas Concluded stories (Source: "Desiderata", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) ...
Deadbeat
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. And I the father, for this is no bastard child conceived in passing passion, born in shame, fostered abroad and shunned as a faceless stranger. I’ll claim the fruit of my own seed, nurture and protect it, essay to understand it, forgive it, liberate it and finally – I hope – celebrate it. I've been wrestling with this midlife ode/anti-ode for a ...
The Beard
Donegal beard contest? I can scarcely resist, coming so soon after Spielberg’s Lincoln. And then I discover a Donegal beard is also known as a “chin curtain”, a name, a notion too inexplicably tempting. I Google “beard plugs” and discover that it’s possible to surgically transplant hair from the head or the chest. There are even beard tattoos, compensatory trompe l'oeil for the stubble ...
Aging
Despite the unflinching march of time so much of the stonework at Machu Picchu remains structurally, aesthetically sound today. Precision. Perfection. Endurance. It's exhausting to even contemplate the hours, the lives it took to transform a mountaintop into a sacred city. We were fortunate to visit once. I hope to return. It's profoundly inspiring to see that some beauty improves with aging... ...