Category: Words
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Manchester By The Fucking Sea
I got drunk on the plane and watched the first half of a movie about a man whose older brother dies of congestive heart failure it’s told in a way that ping pongs between the present and the past and at some point in the past the man inadvertently sets his house on fire there’s…
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Dark Dark Moon
1. it’s all too terribly sad– is it? even the midwinter sun? 2. a kind of hammer and grappling hook with the rope carefully coiled and set beside fresh dug earth around the manhole cover looked terribly out of place in the forest. 3. they were both wearing jackets– and then all of a sudden…
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The God of Water
They’re called Sea Angels, nearly microscopic they fly beneath the ice in the waters near Japan. I imagine them a fluid, gliding constellation– each their own design and distinct yet innumerable and that maybe we’ve got it flipped– it’s the sky’s reflection: we’ve been searching and insisting for god pining with craned necks doing everything…
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Sssssh
current attitude: tea quiet sweet milky (non-dairy, standard) 2,000 or so Veterans are en route to Standing Rock. Listen to the way your body responds to that. (pleasure of all pleasures) “Christmas” is on the way… fuck that noise. Capitalism is an opioid, distresses the guts and makes you constipated. We don’t need presents. We…
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Shape
I’ve been reading Derrick Jensen’s The Myth of Human Supremacy and he uses this quote as an epigram to a later chapter. I’m compelled by it, I feel my posture (crumbling)when I look at my phone or computer overlong…I notice my perceptual gateways when driving… these moments of feeling and noticing arise typically after who-knows-how-long…after…
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Even beauty gets in the way
I wanted to write about you, but I have the last bit of a beautiful song in my head– all my life I thought I’d change: and for a moment (for now) as if in church and I’m beside you and it sounds like angels
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(Radix: going to the root)
each morning upon waking i embrace my dogs, we snuggle and kiss and enjoy the precious time allotted for such simple loving. we make our way down the stairs, i open the door to let them out, i also go to the bathroom. they come tumbling back in and we head to the kitchen. i…
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The Work
This has been quite the week. I have a tendency to resist things that are stated with that emphatic, 100% backing to it, maybe it’s my outsider nature… but there’s that side to the popular yoga culture, that side that’s pushing ‘yoga will save the world’ as though Yoga will get out of bed one…