Category: blessings

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 [...]
19 Jun

Illumination

This quiet calm is more active than any other moment in my day. My mind is like the spark of current traveling over copper wires. Quickly. Quickly. Unseen. This stillness is being, a vibrant state, presence, movement, force, emotion, resistance, fury, and fire. These moments of calm before the day begins is the whole of [...]
02 Jun

I Get Lifted Up High High

I love to dance. I love to get down and dirty. I don’t like to go out to clean, smoke-free nightclubs where there’s a VIP booth with corkage charges, or huge sound systems where DJ’s I never heard of hammer the drunk people over the head with mediocre records by people I have never heard [...]
16 Nov

In the service of my fellows

Man, oh man. What an evening. I wish I could describe what happened tonight in two different conversations with brilliant, and wonderful people who have sought my help with the insanity of addiction. I can’t say anything at all about what we talked about, it would be a violation of our relationship, and my role [...]
01 Nov

24

Twenty Four years ago today I was kicking on the door of the hospital I’d detoxed in. I was pounding on the stainless steel side door with the flat of my hands, and kicking at the plate across the bottom of the door with my steel toed boots. When the two, very large security guards came [...]
15 Jul

in one’s birthday suit

In 1965 Lyndon Johnson proclaimed the birth of the great society. The aims were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. Additionally, several major initiatives for the advancement of education, health, urban problems, transportation, consumer protection, and the environment were launched. Johnson stood in the shadow of John F. Kennedy, and drew from his New [...]
26 Jun

A state of friendship

She drives. Her neck extends to the sky. She sings along, and moves in a rhythm all her own. Sitting up straight, at attention. She leads with her center. It is a beautiful thing to see. He smiles, his eyes are a watery blue. They disguise a deepness, a sadness, a disturbance which he would [...]