A year-and-a-half old journal entry. A reminder… for another soul… and for joy…
Half past nine in the evening. Traveling down Riverside Drive to Mount Seymour Parkway on my way to Mountain Highway, with the blinding lights of cars coming from the opposite direction, taking a very narrow path, and being all alone in that lane [...]
“You’re an artist you know what I mean…” I’ve heard the line on different occasions in the recent months past, from a couple of my literary band of loonies, er, full-of-wonder-and-woe earthlings, whom I’ve been brainstorming with. From having my correspondent let me dissect his mind to having one probe my psyche. An artist going [...]
Casual conversations have a way of sending you back to best-forgotten past, careening off the sanity road. Ugly feelings you’ve decided to bury so deeply would resurface like a cork in the ocean. With even an innocent word spoken kindly by a dear soul, if it’s the perfect keyword to hit a raw nerve, you’re [...]
When my brother Abe first revealed to me how he truly longs for our mom, I was surprised. After all the years of seeming indifferent about her absence, my brother’s finally shown his most sensitive core — his need for Mom. Only then did I realize I wasn’t alone feeling a big hole in my [...]
Skylarking’s one of my cousinbears’ pastime. So I decided to humor my early morning caller by answering her call. If calling my mobile phone when I’m having coffee in the dining room while she’s in her room at the end of the hallway is one of cousin’s wifey’s pranks, am in for the ride. I [...]
