What Crosses My Mind

  • Different Set of Eyes

    Yesterday morning, while sitting in a writing lab with a student, we both received notifications at the same time, about the Houston tragedy – Tragedy in Texas – and we talked for a minute or two of our sadness. We exchanged the usual, it keeps happening, oh that’s scary, terrible, any number of coined phrases that…

  • Fighting Ignorance

    This word popped into my lexicon today, while basking in the setting sun, I wondered aloud about what it is we seem to focus upon while all around our familiar ground, the ignorance of life seems drawn to interfere with a quiet reality.   Sweet ignorance the bliss of our lives suddenly has feet begins…

  • Passing Cars, Traveling Lives

    When I was a little boy, leaving nose prints on the picture window, in the rain, the streaks I’d follow a free hand, fingertips, tracing this world in some design.   When I was a little boy, I’d watch the travelers all of them pointed in some direction, a quiet neighborhood, I’d often know the…

  • The Circle of Deceit

    I can’t listen anymore, I’m a citizen of this country, I believe in my freedom, the welfare of my neighbor the peace of mind of a stranger. I want to understand the peril that one family has overcome in order to help another find peace, find hope, find their own sense of freedom.   But…

  • Just Taking a Walk in the Neighbrohood

    I was listening to a some Tom Waits the other day, puts me in a certain frame of mind, if you know, you know what I mean, you know what I want to say, so I just listen to the blues and try to find my way.   I was thinking just the other day,…

  • I Would Wait For This Moment

    If it meant two people from opposite sides might smile, I would wait for the final moment, if I could know it was coming soon, we might lose denial to recognize the beauty of Man, beyond the animal, far and away we might know the human condition, it all of its fervor, trying forever to…

  • To Know Who I Am

    I struggle sometimes, with the right words, perhaps an easy phrase, a greeting of some kind. I want the world to understand, I am my own being, I’ve fought a war perhaps, nothing like a soldier’s wrath.   I listen to what is real around me, the smarter speakers those meant to be listened upon.…

  • The Last Time I Checked

    There was purpose in my day, a willingness to share, yet the constructs of a certain way, would often interfere, well, just my luck.   I often walk away this way, the drive home, a long enduring road, looking around to see, if anyone else might be my way.   I lack the fortitude one…

  • While Wandering Many Years

    I remember, when as a child, I noticed for the first time, beauty, the sort that remained with me, for the rest of my life.   Oh it came in a smile, a long and enduring hug, a remark a passerby whom might notice, or help or assist, or wonder, rather than showing some practiced…

  • I Have A Broken Heart

    I watched my world unravel tonight, I believe in love, I understand pain and indifference, though cannot recognize ignorance.   This night I listened to voices familiar and strong speak with certain agonizing reactions to simple insecurities.   How soon do we lose ourselves, when hiding inside a square box incapable of having corners, unaware…