What is it about the absence within myself that seeks self-destruction? After all, the destruction of absence is filling the space it occupies, and in my case emptiness is destroyed by contentment, by a feeling of fullness. I fluctuate from contentment to emptiness in no discernible pattern, thrown from one end of the spectrum to …
Monthly Archives: May 2020
A Ramble
Ramble on, life. I’ve been listening. I’ve been listening too closely to the things I wish were right. Or maybe they are right. I don’t know, I’m so darn confused, I hope everyone else is as confused as me. The voice of life echoes and I don’t know if it’s because I’m in a packed …
Trust, Betrayal, and Too Many Analogies Involving Apples
“Trust me, that apple’s rotten”, says person X. Person X can be anyone – hence the name – and the phrase he uses is ubiquitous. But when we hear this sort of thing in our daily lives, how many times do we say “no, I don’t trust your judgement, let me see it for myself”? …
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Hunger
“You have to learn how to die, if you wanna be alive” sings Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, backed by jangly guitar music – and every time I hear it, I’m scared a little. Not enough to make me stop or pause but enough to nag at me for a while. I suppose the reason why …
The Galley with No Name 