How much electronic pain must be suffered at the delighted hands of masochistic fairy muses, who flit about teasing the writer with half-formed ideas? All day long this one has been continually dive-bombed by brilliant sparkling thoughts, only to see them fade away as soon as the mental hand reaches out to grasp. At [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jitterbug Perfume’
Voyeur and Voyager
Posted: November 21, 2011 in Life, living, writingTags: art, bits and bites, creativity, death, disease, instability, Jitterbug Perfume, joy, Life, nesting, The Machine, Tom Robbins, writing
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Advice to My Teenage Self
Posted: November 13, 2011 in ADHD, Life, livingTags: acting, ADHD, advice, awareness, empathy, Jitterbug Perfume, Life, music, open mind, prejudice
If you could write a letter to yourself when you were sixteen, what would you say? Joseph Galliano, an editor, has compiled a list of letters from people many of us know, and has created a book from that collection, entitled “Dear Me. A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self”. So….. What would I say? It [...]
Evaporate Into The Light
Posted: June 16, 2011 in LifeTags: dream, dreaming, Jitterbug Perfume, living, martyr, The Machine
The average looking girl, with her dirty blond hair in ponytail and harried face slips into the subway car and into her seat without anyone giving her notice. She’s not participating in the collective consciousness of the riders. She may as well not even be there. At the next stop, a guy walks in, clad in jeans [...]
Longing for The Rapture – or a Heart Attack
Posted: May 22, 2011 in Life, livingTags: depression, divorce, dogma, Jitterbug Perfume, Life, The Rapture
So we’ve come through the weekend and no rapture has occurred. No planes fell out of the sky, pilotless, no suddenly empty chairs at restaurants, no sets of clothes sitting on park benches, no empty operating tables, with nurses and doctors scratching their heads, wondering where the open heart surgery patient went. For most of [...]
I saw a gorgeous woman today. She had to be in her 50′s but…she had a gorgeous presence about her. An elegance and wonderful shine to her that wouldn’t quit. Right away I surprised myself by giving into an impulse – to check her left hand for a ring. It wasn’t just that she was svelte, [...]
