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Love’s Confusing Joy

They say to write about the joy. Rumi, especially, says that life is meant for “love’s confusing joy.” When I re-read, for the thousandth time, his words written back in the twelfth century, last night, in my own bed, these 760 years later, they… Continue Reading “Love’s Confusing Joy”

“Things I cannot know”

I thought that it was you,but I hardly know your name. Just the way the earth stood still,the way it hasn’t been the same. A thousand times at least,I thought that you would say Something like, “I felt it too –I feel it every… Continue Reading ““Things I cannot know””

On Wholeness, in Lonely Company

Is this it? Is this really all there is? I feel like the Supertramp himself when he made itto Alaska, foraging the final frontier,finding a great big empty bus to call his own – And then died there. “Happiness only realwhen shared,”he wrote. I… Continue Reading “On Wholeness, in Lonely Company”

A Wedding & a Funeral

Somebody once told me that nobody reads my blog anyway, and I guess for that I am grateful because it gives me an outlet to express my wounds without fear of retribution. The same person also insulted my smile, the way I write, my… Continue Reading “A Wedding & a Funeral”

Love Spells & Self-Love

She says to flow, to let go man, oh, man do I already know. Hope, i’ve always said is acknowledgment of what’s already dead a lie inside our head — “I don’t have it yet” is how it’s read. … love yourself instead is… Continue Reading “Love Spells & Self-Love”