Surprised by Joy

- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield 

Gelatinous

Roots

Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

How To Be a Good Senior

Answers

Break, Break, Break

  - Alfred Lord Tennyson 

Marrying Agnes

The Metaphorical Bleed

All is Poetry

Weaving the Story Thread

First Year Guilt

Routine Comfort

Crying in the Chapel

If you cannot teach me to fly,

teach me to sing.

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

The Cinderblocks Remember

Choice of Attention

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - 
is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. 
In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice 
and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

-W.H. Auden

Dear Diary

The Usual Suspects

The Geographical Lottery

The Broken Places

Vague Dancing Metaphors & Such