What Crosses My Mind

  • Why “13 Reasons Why” Is Important

    In the fine arts we are encouraged to go big with our ideas, to allow emphasis on the issue, the illusion, the piece of art being presented on the stage. The purpose is designed to get the point across to the audience, or keep them engaged. The true compliment to an artwork, no matter the…

  • When We Were Younger

    I remember we had conflict, a peer group, a close friend we didn’t know. Confuse that with desires we were not sure of, the outcome can be rather shallow. We make allowances with artificial ideals, I did that very night, when with you, in all of your beauty and grace, I wished only to have…

  • A Picture of Change We Will Unravel

    I have heard ‘secrets,’ that interview was extensive, a great deal of suggestion, people complained, some wondered, others scowled, many didn’t care, about the man’s affairs. ~ What do we read? the hottest magazines that demonstrate our most monstrous needs to associate with a world we might sooner discard than understand. Please know there is little…

  • At Seventeen Again

    Years later, I returned, I didn’t ask, I just recall the time I lived there, alone in my own quiet space, lumbering vacant emotions were near. I glance around the hallways see the faces exist alone together, happy, smiling, crying, scared defiant, denied, demands, devoid of all the worry that years later, their lives will…

  • Be Pretty Please?

    We expect only that you reflect our dreams Our anticipation is your responsibility Remember that when you question us The mirror you see becomes slate gray All of your efforts are left on the vanity As deep inside the soul we often Forget to respond to our reality Visualize, and be pretty please And recognize…