—SPENT ALL DAY JUST TRYING TO BE SOBER

 

…Hey, Friday, you handsome sonofabitch, how’re you doing?

 

…Tell my dealer I miss him.

 

…“It is a terrible thing to be so open; It is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.” Sylvia Plath

 

…You don’t have to pull everything apart to understand what’s inside.

 

…I think it means a lot more to you than it does to me, and I’m all right with that.

 

…You can only heat up that cup of coffee so many times before it tastes like someone’s unclean chimney or sphincter.

 

…You know it’s okay not to be okay, right?

 

…I erase most of what I write, and probably will again.

 

…But if I couldn’t write, I’d be dead a long time ago.

 

…Is it too much to ask, to never see your face?

 

I am so tired of waiting,

Aren’t you,

For the world to become good

And beautiful and kind?

Let us take a knife

And cut the world in two—

And see what worms are eating

At the rind.

            --Langston Hughes

 

…The quality of this video sucks, but the message sure doesn’t…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdEbPkD2KYc

 

…I think Willie Geist may have made it a three-way tie with Ryan Reynolds and George Clooney as the celebrity I’d most like to have a drink with.

 

…“I write songs and make music and sing, and when I do that, the sense of impending sense of doom in feel in our culture today goes away.” Jeff Tweedy

 

…You’re only racing against yourself.

 

…I was going to feel sorry for myself for a minute, but then I remembered I’m still alive.

 

…You can care about something or someone all you want, but if you don’t say or do something, what’s it matter?

 

…It’s going to take a minor miracle for the power to stay on this morning. I like a good storm, but the outage part, now so much. 

 

…“It occurred to me that that’s kind of where you want to live in that space where twilight is just about to meet dawn. Right between darkness and light is where beauty lives. Those are all colors you want to be a part of and associated with.”  Jeff Tweedy

 

…I’m going under and this time I fear there’s no one to save me.

 

…“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.” Bjork

 

…Well, Wednesday, my favorite day of the week, was one grumpy ass day.   

 

…Don’t wanna go back through that shit in between.

 

…Whoa, now there’s a memory you want to keep suppressed.

 

…It’s good to see you again, the very same mouth on the very same head.

 

…Sometimes who says it, matters most.

 

…If you can just make shit up, why should anyone listen to you?

 

…It surprises even me how many in a week I say to no one, “Fuck this guy.” 

 

…“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.” Task

 

…We’re a million miles away from good ideas.

 

…Sometimes when you’re too close to something you can’t see what other people see.

 

…“Maybe it’s not about a happy ending. Maybe it’s about the story.” Albert Camus

 

…I’m not sure I like the way this feels.

 

…You good? What happened?

 

…Does it count if you don’t say it out loud?

 

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so,

there were three things, 

the inability to speak,

 the inability to be silent, 

and solitude, 

that’s what I’ve had to make the best of. 

     ---Samuel Beckett

 

…“A ghost once told me that the best place to hide is in the depths of a hopeful mind.” Kristin Kory

 

…I wonder what it means that a sporting event can bring you to your knees.

 

…“I’m more aware that poetry works just like food. As long as I am making space for others at my table, I always have more than enough. I just never run out.” Alissa Cherry

 

…Sometimes my office just won’t shut the fuck up.

 

…It’s a weak way to go about things, but one way to survive is to just not care.

 

…You have the time you have. That’s it.

 

…So many of my writer friends attended the NO KINGS rallies this weekend. I did not. I loved the photos everyone posted, and the banners and posters. My two favorite signs were:

--RADICALIZED BY BASIC DECENCY  

--WAKE UP AND SMELL THE FASCISM 

 

…“Yesterday doesn’t count. It is what you do today that count. No amount of talking about yesterday is going to change it.” Nico 

 

…Okay, okay, I think we’re done here, I think?

 

…Wait, what? There’s more?

 

…I hope so. But you never know.