Goddammit, People! I’m still me. I plow along through the terror of the times, politically and virally. I deal with the evolving state of my grief and find some room within it to be grounded. I am ...
Read More →Dispatches
Sweet Relief.
Oh, sweet relief, people. Thank you. Thank you all. The pig president is on his way out in a slumped waddle. I don’t know if what I feel is hope but I am no longer filled with terror every second and I ...
Read More →See You All on the Other Side.
Vote, People!I know I don’t have to tell you all that. You know. This is the last couple of days…of the free world. Possibly. I’ve done what I can. I voted. I gave money. I tried to comfort myself and ...
Read More →Sweets.
I can’t take it, People. Just saying. I can, obviously. Man, it’s tough though. I never feel well. Physically. I get tested for Covid like every other week. Even though I am painfully ...
Read More →Culture-Shifters.
Another week, People We’ve adapted. We are living this life, masked, isolated, nervous, strapped. Because it is all so immediate and truly traumatic there is no way to reflect on what is happening ...
Read More →New Management.
It goes on, People. Days are like weeks with no dates or names. Certain patterns have settled. Personal worlds are small. I really have no sense of what is going on ten miles from my house let alone ...
Read More →Vote.
Peace, People. We’ve had a pause. A dark reprieve. A little quiet. While the monster has been in the hospital, it’s amazing how even the air has seemed lighter. My phone isn’t a terrorist ...
Read More →The Casual Pal.
Happy Birthday, People... ...on the outside chance that someone has a birthday today. Mine was yesterday. I was born on Kol Nidre. The eve of Yom Kippur. I think that means something. God ushered me ...
Read More →On the Horizon.
Onward, Folks. Plodding on. The heaviness is real. RBG was 87 years old. She died. Dark days. It really is too much. It seems that just when you think it’s only going to get worse, it ...
Read More →It Can Always Get Worse.
Smokey, Folks. It really is kind of amazing that there seems to be no end to the overwhelming, dystopian shitstorm happening. I’m wary to say it can’t get much worse because obviously it can. ...
Read More →Heating Up.
Very hot, Friends. I’m sort of waiting for the power to crap out but it hasn’t. Yet. Knock on wood. I’m trying to limit my usage. Then I think, 'Am I going to make the difference?' That’s the ...
Read More →Some New Growth.
Hola, Friends! I am back from my home state of New Mexico. It felt like home which is exactly what I was looking for. It’s nice to have a place that feels like home. Just driving into the state, ...
Read More →Stopping In.
I’m out, People. I had to get out. I was alone and tethered to a dying cat for a long time. Now he’s gone and I’m going home. My buddy Frank will watch Buster. He’s an easy one. Home. New ...
Read More →Minute By Minute
Okay, I’m having a good few minutes, Folks. So, let’s see if it lasts until the end of this email. At this moment I am watching a YouTube video of Heart performing ‘Stairway to Heaven’ at ...
Read More →There I Said It.
Hey, hang on, Folks. Right? Jesus, some days are just too much. I’m really trying to stifle very violent future thinking and escapist fantasies but I don’t want to be one of the ones that ...
Read More →Total Dread.
Sad, bleak, lightless days, People!Bake a cake. Make some bread. Watch a movie. Shit is not getting better anytime soon, if ever. Stay in the present. No future thinky, ease up on the past thinky. No ...
Read More →A Robin.
The darkness keeps coming, People! But the weather has been great where I live. It’s hard to reconcile. Encroaching societal/economic collapse, the oncoming environmental apocalypse, the plague and ...
Read More →Eating My Feelings.
Too much bread and cake, People. It’s got to stop. I made cornbread for no reason and ate it. Then Michaela Watkins and her husband Fred came over a day later with a shit ton of food from Bavel ...
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