What Crosses My Mind

  • A Wandering Mind

    Here in the moment greatest fears revealed, the body stunned almost motionless frozen in time. Seems a thought brought this fury in the mind. Seems everything mattered when suddenly no recourse is available only the pit in the stomach that quiet monster of pain. Second guess ourselves now, again, always a wandering soul lost searching…

  • Yesterday

    I went somewhere yesterday morning, it wasn’t the most comfortable ride. I found myself constantly yearning to find some clear peace of mind. ~ Seems I often wake to simple pain always wanting to find a solution. What is it I really wish to gain, I ask myself a constant resolution. ~ What happened in…

  • She Belonged On Stage

    At least those were her words when Becky returned to an audition after years of being away. I’ve changed her name and productions to protect her anonymity. I was first introduced to Becky in a production of Mary Poppins when she played a significant role. She was someone who came out of nowhere, they usually…

  • On Being Scared

    Stepping within the shadows of our curiosity one man might settle world around him suggest a normalcy only this man without conscious effort cannot really untangle from his mind, caught up in the doings of his rotational reality. ~ Like a circus we might imagine our world in a constant thrust of soft display, the…

  • Sifting Through Fear

    A candle burns nearby a reminder of some peace of mind, tranquil is the flame out of the corner of his eye. Speaker beware, someone might reveal, their reveal, that word causes headaches in some circles, those afraid to look in the mirror. © Thom Amundsen 9/2021

  • First Moments

    When doubt begins to wonder and all the souls that gather around suddenly want to splinter off, an edgy sort of raw scrape upon our own fragile sanity. ~ We might think we know, protest the moment, rather respond with a reaction that only suggests we are as fucked up as we believe ourselves. ~…

  • A Certainty is Rage

    When at wit’s end this identity does unravel, the spirit, the mind, that epicenter of our brain begins to take its own journey while the body will always forever remain. Hard to know where the mind goes when stuck in idle unable to let go. ~ There is a response to fear and anxiety a…

  • A Stirring Conversation

    So, I have been feeling poorly recently – what an exciting start right? A real grabber. My point is though I was feeling bad for myself because any type of illness I immediately imagine Covid, and I go through the motions of the test and it comes back negative – well that is my assumption…

  • Stepping Inside

    I found this enormous chasm, walls beyond my reach, a dank stream of sarcasm flowing in between broken lives. I have had a fear of this place, a very long time, ever since once in a moment, I felt a silence in my mind. Sorting through shuttered windows, imagining teeming lives outside while perception stand…

  • Distance Learning

    So, I imagined this happening, the wave of the virus, would shut us down, remove our access to the classroom.   A part of me appreciated the break, I could still with students, have a dialogue in the distance, never contemplated the reality.   Then the news, the overbearing sentence of every teacher, every student,…