What Crosses My Mind

  • We’re Gathering

    Well, we are, the next day or two, are you ready, do you have your favorite mask. Seems readily available when the time is right, nobody knows why except last year little Freddie … well that was one of those nights he gets out of control yeah but the kids, they’re always there always impressionable.…

  • She’s Having A Baby

    I am a happy man. In just a few short months I will be a grandfather. My daughter is about to have a child and I could not be happier. I’m scared too. I think that is a natural feeling to have for your daughter, your child, a parental instinct to care and protect. I…

  • Late In The Morning

    It’s really late, it took me this long to decide to try to write my state of mind. We have a holiday fast approaching this week, and society is marooned by this awful Covid 19 virus. We have all made adjustments, trying to understand and convince ourselves that this is temporary. I wonder how my…

  • Listening To The Trains

    I was listening to the rain outside, a steady rhythm of a soft spring shower the whistle of a train nearby, reminded me of a man I love so dear.   I have watched him grow his entire life a boy to a young man, such happens overnight I see pictures and memories and I…

  • A Difficult Month

    I have experienced loss this month, not simply grief of losing a loved one to the natural course of life. More presence and banishment. Not hostile as much as confusing. Many aspects of life have been exposed, many others kept in their dark holes of quiet solace from revealing my greatest fears. And yet there…

  • The Notion of Giving Up

    I’m in a bit of a crisis, so I’m going to write from my heart. I don’t really know where this will take me, if only to let me vent some of my fears, and find some peace. I recently came to a conclusion about important aspects of my life, and a need to make…

  • I Cry, Sometimes

    Sharing a story, recalling a significant rite of passage in my childhood, Not one I chose I might be so reminded.   One day, her glance a twelve year old mind, frightened by tragedy, submission to God’s plan, a confusion, yet her eyes, would tell me a story.   I then and forever touched would…

  • We Wonder Love

    Glance close in my eyes will the love be receptive is it as real as it feels inside when upon your eyes I look to see your truth.   If when I let you see me, might the caution you feel be my own strength of wanting a world of respect; in ignorance we know…

  • Why Sisters Are Cool

    I called my sister today, before I even uttered a word she asked me if everything was ok, then in a gasp I tried to breathe she said then, what’s wrong?   I called my sister today, before I even uttered a word I knew I could lose my shit and she would think it…

  • Are You Ok?

    How do you ask Why do you ask Well, I’m alright yeah, I am.   We cannot predict this stuff nod your head show affirmation let the tears come think about … children nearby … grown adults they’re watching you, loving you, thanking you.   Everyone in the room is grateful within the tears, they…