The day before yesterday I was headed to pick my son up from school. My wife and I decided we would take the kids’ razor scooters the 7 blocks down to my son’s school on a nice sunny day and have fun riding with him on the way back. I needed to get out of […]
HOW DO WE LET GO?
One of the hardest things to let go of is the way we want things to be. We have fantasies of what our lives could be like, what we could be like as people, what other people should be like, what the world should be like. These are fantasies, but we rarely recognize them as […]
To Live
Somewhere down there deep inside of me there is this small little man. And he is hurting, and I can’t get to him. He is in pain and I cannot comfort him. He needs to be told everything is going to be OK, but he is crying. He feels more than I do, so I […]
DISQUIETING
I can feel it on my face. The deep, open crevice of my scar. I can feel it stretching, tugging, retching. For the first several months after the injury I attributed this to the process of healing and the formation of new cartilage. But now I know it is in my mind. How do I know […]