Loop

Someone said, “I read in church last week, and I messed up.” “You didn’t mess it up, how could you mess it up?” I should have said. I had led the service that evening myself. I didn’t think it could be messed up. What I said was, “It’s not a performance.” I hadn’t been to Brooklyn […]

You Who Have Ears

I spent three days this summer not hearing. This is the dangerous thing I had done: dip my head back to wash my hair in the bathtub. For three days my right ear received no sound waves, but many ministrations: hydrogen peroxide, sweet oil, rubbing alcohol. When something isn’t working, I can’t let it alone. Tell […]

Letters

This time when I saw the Empire State Building and I had no feeling at all. I was taking a $100 cab ride across Manhattan. I had taken a lot of zombie drugs to fly, a little more than usual because my flying lasted 12 hours instead of seven, dosage gets tricky. I really didn’t […]

Posture

My morning included an emergency walk around the block (just put your shoes on and get the fury and terror out of you) and a call to my sister (she’s not at work yet, she’ll talk you down), so you know it wasn’t good. Forces were conspiring to make nothing work, to give me no […]