Month: April 2019

April 10 – stories unfinished

each drive, cars, more cars
bookmarks left in unread books
stories unfinished

I marvel each morning at the number of people and cars that are brought together by a need to get to work.

I will, I hope, never meet these people. But for about one hour, I share a close proximity with all these people, a common goal, a common desire to avoid getting killed while getting to work.

I wonder, when I can, who are all these people? Where are all these people going? What are they like? What was their morning like so far?

The back end of their cars often read like a table of contents to their life.

Places they have been, people they have voted for, personal accomplishments as well as family accomplishments and schools they have attended.

What is the rest of their story?

March 9 – adamantine conclusions

deal occasionally
adamantine conclusions
of realities

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. “
Inigo Montoya in the The Princess Bride, on Vizzini’s use of the word “inconceivable”

Maybe I am using adamantine incorrectly, but I do know that I am growing a new respect, a new love for words.

And when I can get a word that spell check throws out like adamantine, I feel a small victory for mankind over machine and a refusal to accept the adamantine conclusions of realities.

April 6 – Respond!

Hold power! Respond!
Not immune to hate, to fear.
Acts! Words of Kindness!

Adapted from:

“We each hold the power, in our words and in our actions, in our daily acts of kindness,” she says. “We are not immune to the viruses of hate, of fear, of other. We never have been. But we can be the nation that discovers the cure.”
Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister of New Zealand

Quoted in Jacinda Ardern: ‘Very little of what I have done has been deliberate. It’s intuitive’


Talking to mourners after the national remembrance service in Christchurch. Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

I am growing to admire PM Ardern more and more.

And the Guardian is always a treasure trove source of words for my new craft.