What Crosses My Mind

  • Innocence Lost and Assault Weaponry. The Children.

    It’s been nearly two weeks since two children were murdered along with countless gun shot wounds to additional children while attending prayer at their first day of school in Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis.  One of the injured, a young girl, remains in critical care, fighting for her life. I’ve been trying to…

  • On Stephen Colbert

    We recently received the news that Stephen Colbert has been cancelled. The highest rated late night show is being discontinued because of “financial issues.” This is hard to imagine given his show – Late Night With Stephen Colbert – is incredibly popular. Social media has taken to criticizing the move, people recognizing without a blink…

  • 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…

  • The Next Day (Why Paris?)

    When sun arose to widen sleepy eyelid A calm begun soon turned memory horrific We wake shadowed in darkness, a slow embrace Shattered dreams begun inside stranger despair. The news however distorted cannot rid Crying heart, confused eyes, reality’s prolific Mastery of human nature’s fallible race. Once thrive her eyes this morning lacking air. No…

  • The Candidate

    This is a demeanor moment, off the camera, a human being that eats turkey, on camera, the polish forgets the need for food. in my apparent life, what you see could possibly be me, yet, how impactful will the real side of me be, can you see, do you know exactly why we might imagine,…

  • Torment Me More

    I was just beginning to relax, hadn’t found a need to react steered my way clear of facts wanting less reason to act ~ Yet you keep hammering home reality tv’s quest to comb through society’s ugly injustice to leave me in constant notice ~ of our garbage world of hate and crime that rips…

  • We Cannot Choose

    When I can sit in my modern world a television telling me the news, a visual nightmare meant to entertain, when the world evolves to such a degree that suddenly I do have tears, I think it might be time to take a walk instead.

  • Tiresome Notions

    When the news is simple with the same complaints, only to fill the byte, when I see the same woman walking through the day, with new bruises when I realize what little I have managed thus far with personal endeavors when sitting down to recognize my practiced routines will be the same tomorrow when society…

  • Life Lines – a haiku

    No news is good news take a long cool walk instead Skies are all ways blue