You were born screaming. What will you do now? Will you whimper? Will you fall on the floor and mewl? Will you cry out only if the scary stuff comes your way? Will you grow silent? What has life done to you? Has it taught you to be afraid? You were born SCREAMING!!! How else can …
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Color
You were born naked, Except for a covering Borrowed from your mother, And red was your color. The world caught you up, Diluted you, washed you To the pale-pink hue Of a rock on a river’s edge. Growing, evolving, floundering Like so many before, You discovered earth, to roll in it So brown …
DON’T read this if you have anxiety
We don’t even notice car crashes anymore because they’re so common. It must be true then, that the things we have in the most abundance are what we take for granted. “3 car pile-up leaves 2 dead, 8 injured.” Says the news. The reply goes something like this: “But what kind of music were they …
First Ride
Not really the first ride, but the first ride since Spring began, this latest was also the muddiest. Run-off from the mountain snow became little streams that went down parts of the trail. I couldn’t see them until I was right in them, so avoiding the mud was not really possible. It flipped up off …
Near-Life Experience
Is a near-life experience as important to you as a near-death experience? Or do you assign more significance to the unknown? No one knows what it’s like after death except the already dead, and they’re not usually very conversant with the living. So when we come really close to death, almost dying, which is it …
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