act
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than [...]
goodbye to all that
I’ve recently met a new and interesting character, living quite literally on the other side of the world, over discussions about youth and city living. She directed me to Joan Didion’s essay “Goodbye to All That” which I’ve excerpted here, not the best or most striking portion but the part I related to the most. [...]
conversations
I heard him talking before I saw him.
The kind of booming voice that New York teaches you to avoid, looking for a willing audience. Out of the corner of my eye I could see him scanning the faces of passengers. I knew even before he sat down that it would be me, the easy target. [...]
Daydreams
I’ve been daydreaming a lot more like I used to when I was a child.
My mother once described me as she saw in her minds eye. She said, it was like I was walking through a field of tall grass in a summer dress with a wide brimmed straw hat. And to my right was [...]
baby i’m a fool
my favorite song Melody Gardot performed last night
(get past the quality of the video and appreciate it)
mi familia makes it happen
Over the past few months I’ve been attending the monthly event that Ajana helps organize and promote “Where Hip Hop Meets Poetry” hosted at the Water Street Cafe in DUMBO. Its become my guaranteed good time at the start of the month, sort of a three hour hip hop poetry extravaganza that brings out [...]
more and more
I posted a quote a few weeks ago about being preoccupied with thinking.
I thought this related to that passage very nicely.
Human beings have a tendency to ‘live in their heads’. This phrase covers several facts. First, men have a tendency to overtheorize. Some things are ruined by too much thinking on them, things which are [...]
i am much too alone in this world, yet…
I’ve been reading a large amount of Rilke lately, which happens in phases. I pick it up and find myself so completely in grossed with his words its easy to spend hours lying in bed reading each poem two or three times. I always want to share it…maybe beneath a Sycamore tree in prospect [...]
good morning
I’ve been a quite the errant blogger these past couple of weeks. I blame summer, birthdays, beaches, bbqs, stoops and rooftops. Trying this week to get back to a more regular schedule.
Until then…
I went to see Wall*E last week, which I thought was excellent and magical…not to mention a bit of a tear jerker. I [...]
nostalgia
Tonight I spent the evening on my old rooftop, at my old place. It, of course, inspired a bit of nostalgia…but not the type I had expecting at the time (or maybe the type expected in retrospect, since it didn’t dawn on me that those memories didn’t rush back in a flash till much later [...]
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