Rapture

I’m not sure if I can explain how I feel here…but let’s try anyway.
Music is rapturous. It is the wild, raving mad man in my soul. It is the most beautiful invisible presence I know. It runs, like a rain-swollen river, through the deepest reaches of who I am, and when I play, and the [...]

Such Mystery

It is a mystery to me how all this happened. We were just kids, wild, gangly dreamers, lost in our own world of horses, poems, beaches, whispered secrets, smoky fires. Through the tumult of youth, the long, crazy nightmare of teen-hood, we were impossibly crazy for each other, drawn by the invisible, overpowering force of longing. [...]

He Did What?

If ever there was a way to make a statement, to testify to the entire seeing world that something’s going on with you, that a tempest is growing inside and will soon have its way with the world…it must be the tattoo.
This, my friends, is my statement. No doubt the range of responses to this action will [...]

November Sunburn

So, Sunday was one of those days. And I know why…
Because I slowed down, and forgot about the shadows on my shoulders.
Because I shut up, and listened to the rhythm of a day without obligation.
Because I sang (badly) old, uncool folk songs with a little girl who sings from the bottom of her heart, always.
Because [...]