Tag: Life

• This Wishing Well

  

  Well I’m standing here in the big cornfield • Oh the reaper’s coming and I’m bound to yield • It’ll cut me down like a wind from hell • And all I want is just one more drink from this wishing well

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  Aging, Country Blues, Folk Rock, Friends, Harmony, Indie, Life, Lyrics, Vocal

• The Bliss of Normal

  When I watch movies and TV shows now, my reaction is more often than not, “Thank god I don’t have to deal with that!” When I go to work at my office, no one is trying to kill me because I know too much. When I come home in the evening, I have no terrible…

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  Aging, Bliss, Drama, Essays, Life, Normal, Perspective, Predictability

• Prelude

  

  Am I already singing? Is that my voice or hers? My image in the mirror looks the same, pleasantly unglamorous, growing slowly older. Except that now there is gold dust on my lips. I smile. I can’t help it.

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  Gold Dust, Identity, Life, Poetry, Self, Transformation

• The Sweet Spot

  The trick is to find the sweet spot and stay there for the evening. This is the place where I am pleasantly buzzed. Still coherent enough to carry on a conversation (albeit in a slightly slurred fashion), still on track to remember everything I did when I wake up in the morning, and yet blissfully…

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  Cocktails, Connection, Drinking, Drunkenness, Essays, Friends, Fun, Life, Relaxation, Rules, Stress

• Today

  

  Inhale, exhale. The back and forth of the spiritual ocean. The rocking of the great chair. Sit beside me. Press your cheek to mine. We will ebb and flow together, ears like shells creating the sigh of waves each for the other.

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  Essays, Life, Peace, Self, Yin

• My Life Is A Wheel

  

  My life is a wheel, my life is a wheel, my life is a wheel

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  Life, Philosophy, Poetry