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In those days of flannel shirts, Levi’s and younger skin, it didn’t always matter what the lyrics were. It mattered more that I wanted to fit into a place of my choosing: Longing for a girl who would be intractably longing for me and sometimes looking into a mirror imagining how that might be -- clouded with the scent of Flex Balsam Shampoo - ( Read more... )

I learned much from your quiet example
More than all the words you ever spoke
those lasting bits of you ramble in my chest
Yet, there’s no way to make them outlast me
but by the illustrations which I’ve left in others

More than the rocky, parched and root-filled soil where she now rests, I'll remember her snotty purrs and sweet personality. Goodbye Stella Bella.


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There could be so much to say about this song. For me, it is a reminder to be more humble and learn from my failings and weaknesses-a-plenty -- because one way or another, we all stand to lose someone we love.

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"I want to plant a little garden with you now
Take care of a piece of the earth somehow
And tend it when we're old and gray and
Try to straighten up and say, well,
I'm so glad to see you today
Hey baby hey baby hey baby hey"
~ Greg Brown

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More than others, you are made of dirt and earth and this is a part of you which I find feminine and irresistible. After you mow an acre of grass or at the end of other tough work, I think of how good you smell in that paint-stained shirt that you sometimes wear as you wander the yard without shoes. Since we’re already old, I cannot say “I want ( Read more... )

It seems the more we identify and enumerate the faults in another’s way of doing or thinking, the less opportunity there will be able to see the good in others. With age, this pattern often begins to encase and solidify our personalities in such a way that we can become profoundly and often irreversibly affected ( Read more... )

We will always be able to find at least one bad example of any good thought, ideology or intention. The folks I admire the most are the ones who seem to be able to look beyond the noise to recognize the importance and complex essence in love and kindness.

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