Explain… that you live in a blur Of hours and days, months and years, and believe It has meaning, despite the occasional fear You are slipping away with nothing completed, nothing To prove you existed. ~ Mark Strand Those dark, contemplative words are excerpted from Mark Strand's poem "The Continuous Life" (The Continuous Life, Knopf, 1991). I include them here to admit they resonate, not every ...
Time
Time
"I can always regain lost territory. A single second, never." ~ Napoleon Hat tip to Hugh MacLeod, author of Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination and creative pen/wordsmith behind gapingvoid.com Related articles gapingvoid @ Ditech (gapingvoid.com) Creativity and how to find the work you love (notesfiled.wordpress.com) ...
Drift
I will unplug, Unwind, untether. I’ll surf the wind, Not the web. I’ll ride a bike. Anywhere. Weed the garden. Prune a pear tree. Walk. Alone. Far. (Source: "Drift", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) The top half of riff on slowing down, pausing. Now, not tomorrow. Because tomorrow never comes. ...
Off to Paddle
Sometimes it is right and good to close the lid, push back your chair, lock the door, and head out onto a slow-flowing stream or lake for a paddle. Tranquil tonic. Solitude. No permission. No regrets. ...
Noise
A garbage truck thunders past, doubling the thirty mile per hour speed limit. Then a slow car. And another. Then quiet except for the crinkle-strain-crinkle-strain of the palm paddles on the ceiling fan above my head. Type. Click, click, click. (Source: "Sound Escape", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) Excerpted from a soundscape poem originally called "Bucolic Study", but probably eventually ...
Mission Reboot
By twenty I’d be a poet. By thirty, a novelist. By forty, a memoirist. Perhaps a decade anon I’d expire telling stories By a babbling brook With a smoldering fire And a jug of wine. At thirty nine I took inventory. The workbench was sow backed But the warehouse was bare... (Source: "Mission Reboot", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) This is an excerpt from one of the ...