The Finder And The Lost

We found the lost children, right in front of our eyes. Here the whole time, eyes open, minds shut. Not thinking it could be closer to home. Each of us has our individual intellect to blame for where we are. How lost we are. If we didn’t practice escaping from reality, we wouldn’t be so …

Obsession

Count how many times a person mentions a particular topic. Find the topic with the highest count and you’ve found their obsession. For some, an obsession will be a sport. They might be a bit zealous over hockey or hang gliding, baseball or bocce ball. For others, they might obsess over politics or public figures, …

Pulling Out of a Slump

That’s all it takes really. Look above. A picture of a blue-eyed kitten is a great way to deal with the doldrums, the blues, the slump, the blockage, the writer’s constipation. So many names for a low-down mood. So many ways to define sorrows. Why do we do it? Why do we spend so much …