the latest posts tagged ‘death’
stumbling into graceland
My walk-in closet looks like an IED exploded in it: two fat piles of jeans and slacks, another of shirts and sweaters, scattered shoes I’m tripping on. There’s a rats’ nest of hangers out in the hall. I am ruthlessly culling the old or sick or awful; I have vowed to show no mercy;…
another addition to the frozen zoo
My handsome husband Mr. Forte (no, that’s not his real name) and I were sitting at the table this morning, eating toast and drinking Blue Bottle coffee out of our favorite dishes (his mug has a lizard and a cactus on it, my cup is plain white and the size of a small bowl)….
in the dying light
The finches are back. A flitting, chattering flock of tiny green birds appears in the elm outside my office windows at the ragged edge of every summer and stays as long as the camouflage works. As the ground cools and the leaves fade from Pippin Apple Green to Dirty Yellow Ready-To-Drop, there are…
a man of letters
Our family is chock-full of wordy people. We soak language up and spit it out in big lots, out loud and on paper. We communicate, chirping like a flock of finches in an elm, scratching or tapping letters into sentences and stories, leaving our verbal footprints around as if we’d landed in black paint…
just a song before i go
Well, I looked into the sky for my anthem And the words and the music came through But words and music will never touch the beauty that I’ve seen Looking into you, and that’s true Last verse of “Looking Into You” Music and lyrics by Jackson Browne, 1972
choosing wisely
You can choose. To be happy, to be an optimist. Or not. To see clearly or to leave the oily smudges on your glasses. To be grateful for your good luck and proud of your hard-won successes or to complain only that it was a lot of work and there were boulders in the…