Meditations On Beauty

Sometime in the evening, as I slept, the power went out...normally this sort of event wouldn't actually wake a person, but the fan that I usually have humming in the window seems to make more noise when it's silent than it does when it's running. I had been dreaming of something, though I can no&...

  " It's this heat. It gets inside you... Makes you so aware of your body. It's like nature's way of letting you know that you're still an animal...     

  ................they say that you can catch the Devil, but you can't hold him for long...   Sometimes significance and insignificance are indistinguishable for me. A great triumph, celebrated by the world as a landmark event, passes me by unnoticed-- the trumpets and fireworks that wh...

    "What goes through your mind when you're dancing?" "Nothing. Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer can make. You have to feel it. Let the music move you. You can only have control, as a dancer, when you forfeit it completely." -Michael Jackson     I ...

Something is dreadfully wrong with me today, and I feel the need to confess my sins before my impulses cause me to explode. They snuck up on me this afternoon, as I was savoring the delightful holiday atmosphere while driving my car, slowly, around the bay to Harbor Springs. I had taken the low r...

Green, green youth What about the sweetness we knew? What about what's good, what's true From those days...   It's no secret that I make some pretty thorough rounds through a number of what I can only refer to as paradises. These middle-ground idealistic realms neatly reside on the border be...

  Hopped in my car after stumbling down my stairs this morning with wet hair. All of my senses were thrilled to be operating again, after such a long and thorough sleep. Started rolling down the road and flicked the radio on, just in time to catch the beginning of one of my favorite driving&...

Blew my social obligations off this afternoon and skipped town instead, as I often do. Grabbed my razor and tooth brush, filled up my gas tank, and hit the northern road into the open country, away from the city. Had to be done. No question about it. Turned my phone off for the night to…

        I sometimes feel as I imagine a woman feels... ...not preoccupied with control, but rather a lack thereof. . A desire to relinquish the steadfast guard of one's self, and simply be lead away by the hand. . To stroll through enchanted avenues and boardwal...

One of the only enduring job fantasies that I've had since I was a child, and continue to have to this day, is that of a fisherman. Not just any fisherman...or rather, not just any fisherman on any body of water. For reasons both known and unknown, I can not shake an inexplicable desire to…