I suppose I’m more of a morning person than a night person. Unless, of course, I haven’t slept well – then I’m not much of a morning person either. Or, if I stay out late – in which case I suppose I’m a night person. For the better part of the past year, I’ve been…
Category: Clippings
A Pocket Full of Longing and a Head Full of Song
The song in my head, a song that’s been out for a few years but is new to me, is Orville Peck’s “Dead of Night.” The morning’s thread of poetry and literary quotes is littered with the ashes of September. These days, everything is fading light and longing. Ray Bradbury wrote, “It was September. In…
Fall Approaches: Phone Dump
For the past two weeks, I’ve been checked out. I’ve done very little reading or writing and very little job searching. I’ve taken fewer city walks and spent fewer hours on sun-drenched benches by the water. Instead, I went nocturnal. I’ve spent my days inside wasting time on my computer. I’ve spent my nights out…
CLIPPINGS 2-21-20
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any clippings…. I’ve been trying to work them in to my writing. I suppose hearing people share some of the poems they liked has sent me down a rabbit hole of reading (short things – I still don’t have the attention span for anything long). Now I am…
Saturday Night Phone Dump
It’s a long road winding under the stars type of a Saturday night. I have a glass of Malbec and am listening to slow, wistful, and seductive tunes on the stereo. The playlist is called Stay All Night after a Junior Kimbrough song. When it gets a darker, I’ll turn the lights down and hit…
Clippings: Mid-January Phone Dump
I tend to criticize myself for how much time I spend on social media (especially Twitter). Then, I scroll through the photos on my phone and remember that it’s mostly screenshots of poems and words of wisdom I’ve found on Twitter. For me, it’s a source of inspiration and discovery that I wouldn’t otherwise have….
Food for Thought
Yesterday, a particularly miserable day for weather, I popped in the earbuds and listened to a podcast about attention and focus as I walked for an hour on the treadmill. Many of the ideas the guest on the podcast had shared were concepts I was familiar with. There is no such thing as multi-tasking. Our…
In This Very Moment
Last night I sat by the warm light of a table lamp reading, thinking, and clicking and unclicking a pen. It, the pen, had a push button on the top, and a release button on the side. Push the top, click, the pen appears. Push the side release, click, the pen recedes. I appreciated the…
FUNNY CLIPPINGS
So much of what I write is an attempt to straddle the space between happy and sad, joy and pain, love and hate…. not the most lighthearted topics. Today I spent some time cleaning up the photos on my phone. While doing that I came across so many comics that I had taken pics of…
CLIPPINGS? 12-15-19
I’m not sure I’m up to writing tonight. I’ve been sitting at the computer since I got home… not really doing a whole lot of writing. I decided instead, I’d post a mish-mash of photos and links, and quotes and videos…. These are the things going through me and my head lately. Starting with Nick…….
CLIPPINGS 12-1-19 (HOME)
Last night was not a good night for sleep. I tossed restless most of the night and finally got out of bed around 5 am. I had my big boy breakfast, and have been at the computer not writing for the past hour. I can’t settle on anything to write, at least not now. Thumbing…
DIGITAL CLIPPINGS
Clippings: that was the term my ex-fiancee gave to the lines of poetry she would jot down in her journals – they would be jumping off points for her poems. I think anyone that has done any writing is familiar with this practice – you see something good, you write it down, store it away,…