feeding the dragon

If you tear off into the night, with your unmufflered truck roaring in the blackness, Confederate flag stretched out tight behind you in the wind you’re making with your new velocity, and you have Lynyrd Skynyrd blasting out of your cheap … Continue reading →

let the rooster crow….

Let the rooster crow….I can’t hear a word he’s saying. Dang oversleep stuff. It’s not the oversleep….it’s the undersleep in the middle of the night that causes the problem. Sparrow has a fever….so Jenny was up a lot in the … Continue reading →

the seep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-z_iRDFfnM I guess that sometimes when I think of a “stream of consciousness”, I imagine a rushing river of thought and imagination. It’s powerful….unstoppable…the kind of brain power that carves great canyons out of solid ground….that fills oceans. A person could really float … Continue reading →

nocturnal ratio

When I sleep in it really confuses me. I’m never sure if everyone else in the house is going to sleep in correspondingly late. I can’t count on that. So, it’s kind of a wild card as to what is … Continue reading →

the best place to be

I remember sitting in a Bruce Springsteen concert and wishing I was somewhere else. How messed up is that? It was a passing thing….I got over it by the next song and I was back….but for a moment I got … Continue reading →

the jump

There is a Grand Canyon width divide between how it feels to get up on a cool North Carolina morning, pad quietly down to the kitchen to make some coffee and take my vitamins with half a coffee cup of … Continue reading →

just my ‘magination

I listen to music all day while I’m driving. I bought a Sirius radio…so I have a lot of options to listen to….and one of the stations that I was listening to for a while is one that features old … Continue reading →

band-aids

My son, Nate, hurt his finger yesterday. When I say “hurt”, I don’t mean that he got his finger caught in some giant smasher…or grinder….or anything horrible like that. That’s horrible….I shouldn’t have even written that….. He hurt the very … Continue reading →

someone gets a chance….

Someone gets a chance to hear this guy. I don’t have permission to play this music. I don’t have permission to do anything. This was one of those “serendipitous moments”….YouTube scrolling and a guy with a good beard…and a good … Continue reading →