Who should be pushing?
I need to push you to push me. So that I can do the work that I need to do. The stuff that’s clamors and clangs as it crawls its way out of my torso. Here’s how that might work: I’ve inclinations and suspicions of worth to be wrangled and put to work. These are things […]
Do we need to be chasing something?
It’s better to be chasing something than to be hampered and held back. That’s what TJ Muraca says, anyway. You should know that TJ stands for Trouble Junior but he’s a dear friend so I think he’ll let that one slide. (You will, won’t you, TJ?) But, is it true? Is being held back truly […]
Is it better to be certain or curious?
The red pill or the blue pill? Those are your options. One puts everything back the way it was before you followed the rabbit into the wilderness. You “wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.” The other takes you deeper into the hole but you don’t get to preview what’s […]
How your secrets can set you free
What if you exposed every detail about yourself? The private knowledge you conceal and protect like an endangered obscure owl variety no one talks about anymore. Things you’ve done that you wish you hadn’t. The ones everyone agrees shouldn’t have been done and that’s why you make sure they don’t find out. The ones that […]
What shall you rescue?
You are here. Your life is rescued into the past. It can not be blotted out. You are here And that is forever. But what will we choose to rescue? What is precious enough to preserve even if no one ever gazes upon it again like a treasure buried behind the tree in the field […]
It’s not a math problem, it’s a person
2+2 always equals 4. This is based on accepted definitions of what constitutes identical groups of 2 and what results when you employ the mathematical operation of addition. The answer is what you and I and everyone label as 4. This is according to the basics of number theory which yields useful results for everyday […]
Pulling the trust rug
Compare the feeling of not being trusted for good reason with the feeling of being trusted for no good reason. You are not wrong to feel hurt when someone displays a lack of trust in you. You’re not wrong but you may be squandering energy if the person withholding the trust doesn’t know you well. […]
Love loses
Some towns have foothills that roll and bounce. They’re covered in that soft, thick grass that sways because it’s unmanicured. The kind that looks like you could comb it. We’ve got some of those here. One of them is a landfill you can see from the thruway. Oh well. Those hills, natural or not, are […]
Driveway therapy
To my driveway, I’m the guy that frees it from its snowy slumber like the sand-secluded tombs underneath Egypt. To me, I’m doing both of us a favor. Let me explain. I’ve been the object of much attention lately for a particular outdoor groundskeeping activity, shoveling my snow covered driveway. People ask me about my […]
