I Too Have Grown
As the counter of our lives increase, it gives reason to contemplate, reflect and gaze ahead. I remember the excitement of the small increments as a child, as each number began to open new doors and opportunities. As an adolescent and into adulthood it became emblematic of behaviors allowed and others became suddenly shunned. And…
More than You Need
Around the hard grey marble table five of us sat. Bellies full of shellfish, BBQ prawns and pork, we laughed as the sky darkened and the Leo beers vanished deep within. In the darkness, local Thai children laugh and play in the streets. The brightness of the moon offers them enough light to navigate their amusements. The local Thai…
Generation Gratitude
Transformative is the defining word for both of our lives over the past two years. Two years ago we were both defeated by the circumstances in our lives: relationships, jobs and routine. The Letters of Gratitude:challenged us to look into the dark depths of self through the lens of gratitude. We transformed our scarring challenges into life…
The Cloak
Truth spins, twists and turns and the original innocence of the beautiful unadulterated truth loses its translucence into a realm of unlclarity. The brilliant flairs of imagination ignite and that which was black and white colored with an inconceivable illusion. The art of a lie, only one can tell; but, the diffusion of such filtrates…
The Shaman Boy
“The Shaman Boy” is the transformational story of a boy living in what could easily be categorized as a dystopic world. This novel unsettles the conventions of time and defies traditional categorization of alternate worlds. It is an intricately woven tapestry of richly dense description in both poetic form and prose. Unfamiliar language inundates the text…
The Wish Loophole
Flickering fires atop the waxed wicks, bellowing breath from the belly bestowing it upon a select stemmed dandelion, plucking the petals of flowers to determine love, cowering fields for clovers in search of anomalies: these are the childhood tropes that are emblematic of wish fulfillment. Our wishes, our dreams, and hopes we place in the…
Sha Sha
Linens to be pressed, bills to be paid, off to work, get coffee, these lineups at Starbucks are brutal, get to work, 8 hours left, than the traffic roulette begins, stop for groceries, make dinner, clean the dishes, tidy the house, ohh forgot to shower, done…tv and than bed. The exhaustive and daunting script that…
Masticating the Soul
One by one the tears fall as I step away from adolescence into a world that I have only experienced in my mind and in the portrayal of movies. Days turn into months and months turn into years and the tears never dry. The pool of my youth has long since dried and is replenished…
Reconciling Self
The reverberation of this sentence never struck me until recently: Have you ever had that experience of looking at a picture of yourself and not recognizing the person you see? With a wide stroke of honesty, I look at the images of my past. I examine who I was and try to come to an…
In The Crevices of the Night
As the sun creeps into the crevices of the night, a new energy begins to emerge. Almost as though the darkness here has an allegiance with mischief, the two entangle themselves. The dynamics of daylight: foreigners furrowing brows in disagreeance. They sway their heads back in forth to signify a denial of the goods being…