Tag: life
The Gaps
“Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from… Continue reading The Gaps
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Kid From Pikney (part 1) (Written three years ago)
Visions of Florida, 2011 Manuscript. Up on the old campus a cop drives by. I’m sitting on the steps looking at the neighborhood below. That’s where I used to live. He puts the car in reverse and rolls down his window. I walk up to him. “It’s alright to be up here, right?” I ask… Continue reading Kid From Pikney (part 1) (Written three years ago)
Adventures? Writing? Living? EDITING!
I Don't Know... Tap...and I suppose. I'm just typing. My book (day 126 or something of the editing process) is at a rather low point once again. Inspired but tired. Bored but who knows what else. Getting better than not. The same but more words grow like a plant. Days go by and the spring,… Continue reading Adventures? Writing? Living? EDITING!
Adventures In American Writing 