Today we must balance the tears of sorrow with the tears of joy. Mix the bitter with the sweet in death and life.

Jackie as a figure in history was a rock in the water, creating concentric circles and ripples of new possibility. He was medicine. He was immunized by God from catching the diseases that he fought. The Lord's arms of protection enabled ( Read more... )

I want summer to be here. The real summer. With sundresses and strawberry festivals. And lemonade and fireworks. And walks late at night, when the heat is more bearable than during daylight. And troubadoric summer songs that lilt in the floral breeze ( Read more... )

ONE, TWO.

O'OH, CENTRAL PARK,
O'OH, EVENING SKYLINE,
O'OH, HELICOPTER,
O'OH, FIRECRACKERS,
O'OH, JULY 4TH IN NEW YORK CITY

O'OH, TREES ARE LAUGHING,
O'OH, WINDOWS SMILING,
O'OH, WATER SHINING,
O'OH, PEOPLE ROLLING,
O'OH, JULY 4TH IN NEW YORK CITY

I NEVER KNEW WE COULD BE SO NICE TO EACH OTHER,
I NEVER THOUGHT WE'D BE LAUGHING ( Read more... )

It will be Summer -- eventually.
Ladies -- with parasols --
Sauntering Gentlemen -- with Canes --
And little Girls -- with Dolls --

Will tint the pallid landscape --
As 'twere a bright Bouquet --
Thro' drifted deep, in Parian --
The Village lies -- today --

The Lilacs -- bending many a year --
Will sway with purple load --
The Bees -- will not despise the ( Read more... )

I'd thought I lost it, but I found it. Thank the heavens and hell. That would have been a horrid way to start Monday.

April 3rd means "Happy Birthday Jazz."

And Baseball is officially starting which means--

Summer is here.

Fin.

I've got a friend who happens to be gay. Strike that--I've got a plethora of friends that happen to be gay, but today's anecdote is of just one of them.

I was at the beach. Not really a beach, but an area of sand and rocks that is discreetly nestled downtown, right between the train tracks and the Thea Foss Waterway. My girl and I were throwing ( Read more... )

I came across a large protest march on Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. The Who was on the radio and the smell of barbeque was in the air. A game of baseball was played in the backyard. The sidewalks were crowded with kids learning to ride their bikes, and their parents cheering them on. She licked the frosting off the cupcake, but never got around to ( Read more... )

I want to be able to go somewhere between summer and fall quarter (and somehow not miss too much work--yeah, right) and now I just have to figure out where I want to go.

Since Josh wants to go to nyc and has never been I was going to go with him and also spend some time on the jersey shore which means theoretically I could just leave from JFK to ( Read more... )