picture this hopscotch.
The diagram on the ground was drawn with chalk. From here, it seems like a cross made out of numbered boxes. One of the boxes says “heaven,” and the other, “home.” The girl with the ponytail walks into the frame,…
the hamlet that thinks it’s a ship.
Built in 1996. Very opinionated. Thinks it’s a ship, and that the land is its ocean. Everything is interconnected, it says – pull one string out and poof goes the whole thing down. Somehow, believing that it is sailing,…
shoe size.
Catch My shoe catch size catch is catch nil, catch me if you can. You can’t catch me, you can’t catch me. Catch me if you can. Val-de ree, valderah, valderee, valderah-ah ah ah ah ah val-de ree, valderah, mein…
oakdale.
[no date] I was thinking yesterday of 2 things – how easy it was to avoid conversation; and how this trip, speechless, reminds me about the meditation camp Ridwan told me where for the whole week they didn’t talk, didn’t…
the crying little cloud.
On my way to the coin laundrette, I met this little cloud. She was crying. Boo hoo hoo, she said. Shoosh, shoosh, I said to her. She kept crying, so I decided to bring her with me and talk with…
gehört.
The immigration officer was standing there and the line was too big for him to look at everyone’s passport. I was standing close to you in the crowd. I never felt good at borders. I always wanted to erase them…
sign.
Everyone who reads this should try to assume a different astrological sign (from the one previously assumed) for at least a month, and be very dilligent in assuming it. So just decide which you want to be this month, starting…
snow.
I wanted to write something about snow, but then an email came from Damien Sully asking why I auctioned my pimple over eBay through this delicately marvelous guy/artist that I’ve just met on the street. I tried to reply. Here’s…
two.
Two postings in a day. What’s happening to me? My ear’s becoming more sensitive. If happiness is ignorance of details of the life surround, should I be happy at all? Nah. Happiness is experiencing all the pain and being able…