Category: journal

24 Jul

Delicate Boy

I am a delicate boy. Strong, loud, and at times as difficult as a pamphlet, but slender, tender, and as light as a feather too. When I am in transition people tend to stay away from me. What can you say? What can you do? I called a friend yesterday to say “Hey, let’s have [...]
23 Jul

Out of the closet

I am in a relationship. I am seeing someone. I am deeply in love. It is something which has been growing within me for years. Something I have had mixed emotions about admitting, and sharing with anyone. Fear, my strangely wide open, but curiously protective and private nature, and the unsureness of my footing in [...]
21 Jul

Juneau, Alaska

I was surprised beyond belief for my birthday with a trip to Alaska last week. It was a small piece of what I would call the best day of my life so far. I woke up early, but decided to meditate, reflect, and read instead of stumbling into the kitchen and slouching over the laptop. [...]
14 Jul

Gladys Knight at the Pips saved my life

I was rounding the corner of Webster onto Haight street. I live in the lower haight, and this is my neighborhood. It’s a complex situation here these days… new life, fancy people with money awkwardly blended with the life long residents and hold outs from a time when the lower haight meant anything but pubs, [...]
12 Jul

Maybe our future is electric?

After Nixon, many presidents set similar goals for energy independence. Every target was missed. Our future is electric ? An excellent article on the future of energy, oil consumption, energy independence and more from The American’s Andy Grove.
11 Jul

italo-phone

If you said something to me, something true… maybe… sometimes I wonder if I could even hear you. It’s like the world is filtered through everything that’s ever been said, or all the crap I did when I should have been in high school. Maybe through the innocent eyes of a very young me, standing [...]
08 Jul

a little praise from the source

I came home tonight to find this waiting for me on my desktop. I can’t tell you how thrilled I was. Yaay!
07 Jul

In the passing breeze…

Well that was quite a weekend. I have to say that I haven’t felt this alive, loved and beautiful in longer than I want to actually admit. Heading in, things were looking grim. I was heavy with emotion. I met with my father for the first time in years, lots of my friends were having [...]