Teeny Tiny Mantras
Today is Patti Smith.
Patti Smith - Horses (full studio version) (by Twentysixbillion)
Kind of stuck on this song.
Elvis Costello, “When It Sings” (by Iain Halliday)
may my heart always be open to little birds
who are the secrets of living… (by ee cummings)(photo by catene)
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Tract for the Day of the Dead
Posted on November 1, 2012 | No CommentsOne of my first official acts as a newly minted 40-year-old was to help my mother pronounce my stepfather dead after a prolonged and terrible brain illness. It was dawn... -
Hope & death & Patti Smith
Posted on April 12, 2012 | 2 CommentsAt the beginning of the year, I made the aspiration to read fewer Buddhist and self-help books. I bought and started Just Kids by Patti Smith, but I didn’t get... -
I am dead people
Posted on February 2, 2012 | 2 CommentsThe news was bad for dogs last week. Apparently, dragons hate them, so the new Chinese year is predicted to be a rough one for people like myself, born in... -
Washing away
Posted on January 3, 2011 | 7 CommentsI was all set to do laundry on New Year’s Day. The baskets were loaded, the darks picked clean of stray white socks. Then I happened upon the superstition that... -
Andyman
Posted on July 19, 2010 | 5 CommentsI’ve run along the periphery of Columbus music for 16 or 17 years, and sometimes right through its center. I’ve written about it, talked about it, consumed it, even married... -
Applesauce
Posted on July 12, 2010 | 4 CommentsMy son and I went to the grocery store today. It had been days. As we finished up in the self-checkout lane, an older woman behind us didn’t wait for... -
Passings
Posted on January 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsAs we drove home from school today, Declan told me that he knew nanodiamonds could keep our dog Arrow from dying. Now, Arrow is barely six years old and pretty... -
It’s my 500th post! Let’s talk about death…
Posted on September 25, 2009 | 2 Comments“Why are these big rocks covering them?” he asked me, as though someone had put the gravestone there to hold my grandparents under the earth. “They help you and I...
