What Crosses My Mind

  • Impeached

    Trying to wrap my head around meaning, listening to the pundits, saying the same thing, the same thing same, again, the words are reimagined, and yet, this really did happen, the talk became the action, yet, wait for it, I don’t see the moving trucks lining the White House rotunda with Mara Lago plates aligning…

  • Please Scream Rather Than Leave A Note – Suicide In Our Lives

    The other day, I read a NYT article that indicated suicide rates are rising at an alarming rate since 1999. The same day CNN listed a similar statistic at 25% since 1999. This was the day after Kate Spade had taken her life. I thought it a natural followup of a tragic event. This morning…

  • How Will Society React

      In Minneapolis, a white, blonde woman, of means was gunned down by a Somali police officer. Let me say this a different way. A woman in a dark alley was recently shot dead by a cop on patrol in south Minneapolis. Or I could say, after making a call to 911, a woman in…

  • Propagandic Despair

    I want to watch the news, want to know, to understand, to speculate, what is right, what is incomplete, what deceptive story will lead me astray today, tonight, tomorrow, every way I look for something new, some situation refreshing,   I want to watch the news, I just can’t find the right ideas to concern…

  • Waking Without The News

    I awoke this morning with a certain calm, the quiet heartbeat of my dog nearby, the sun just beginning to radiate the room, life seemed a slow melodic sort of tune.   Oh, there are certain ideals on my mind that weigh heavily to be understood yet for that moment, that initial lull I could…