out and back

My long road trip: let’s start with the very transcendent. A very good place to start. In a small wooden hall on a pier over the Atlantic, dozens and dozens of my extended family danced so hard there are concerns about structural damage. Boy cousins had dance battles. An MVP cousin directed all the gentlemen […]

the Heat

the living is easy fish are jumping and the cotton is high your daddy’s rich and your mama’s good looking so hush, little baby don’t you cry Saturday, September 1, 1923, an 8.0 earthquake killed 100,000 people in Japan. Homes shaken into ruins left millions of people homeless. I ran across this bit of history […]

days of the week (clap clap)

Monday’s child is fair of face,Tuesday’s child is full of grace.Wednesday’s child is full of woe,Thursday’s child has far to go.Friday’s child is loving and giving,Saturday’s child works hard for a living.But the child that is born on Sabbath day,Is bonny and blithe, good and gay. I was born on Sunday. Today is Wednesday. Yesterday […]

Shell

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall What is wrong with me? “Moral injury” is one thing, as recently explained to me by an article in the New York Times. The Times notes, “the deep distress that can emerge when you feel that your values have been violated, either by yourself or someone else. The resulting […]