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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

Here are some key attributes of the voice in my head. I suspect they will sound familiar. It’s often fixated on the past and future, at the expense of whatever is happening right now. The voice loves...

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must you…

must you finish a thought? is it not enough to   Source: yelenabelovas. Image via bytheslice

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Body

When bodies are discussed, especially in popular culture, it has often meant a very circumscribed set of themes, largely to do with what the body looks like or how to maintain it at a pinnacle of...

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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

…In the 25 years since I graduated from college, such demands have relentlessly ratcheted up. The quantity and complexity of the mental work expected of successful students and professionals have...

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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action… Life, my sister said, is like a torch passed now from the body to the mind. Sadly, she went on, the mind is not...

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Monday Morning

The slow overture of rain, each drop breaking without breaking into the next, describes the unrelenting, syncopated mind. Not unlike the hummingbirds imagining their wings to be their heart, and...

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A coloured cloud

As I wash the dishes I am filled with an invigorating emptiness and amuse myself with the soap bubbles. The water comes out of the tap with a rhythm that demands music. I accompany it with bursts of...

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Sleep, Harris. Rest from Yourself.

Rest… leave behind fear, hope, anger, spilled milk. Take silence only. Sky, wind. Sunrise after the rain. Forget the rest. Sleep, Harris. Rest from yourself. — Reverend West (Vondie Curtis-Hall),...

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Walking. In cool water from Lake of Memory.

1040 (not your tax return), 1040 consecutive (almost) days on this Cove Island morning walk. Like in a row.  But for the wind and the light rain, it would be a pleasant, 35° F morning in March. Ah...

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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

Life is soupy, mixed up, and tumultuous. Muddying the waters is precisely the point because it’s from such nutritious streams that life grows… [KP: How would you start to answer this vast question of...

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