A meditation on my recent times, in the words of songwriter Stephen Stills.
Ten years singing right out loud
I never looked, was anybody listening?
Then I fell out of a cloud
I hit the ground and noticed something missing
But now I have someone
She has seen the changes
And it gets harder as you get older
And farther away as [...]
Thought it was a good time for something a little lighter here…
Although my wonder years were all over the Midwest, I’ve always called New Jersey (or just “Jersey” to us natives) as my home state. It’s the place where I went through my adolesence and met my sweet wife.
In a fit of sudden nostalgia for [...]
This must be why mystics and poets record /
The slender incursions of splintered light, /
Echoes, fragments, odd words and phrases /
Like flashes through darkened hallways. - Rod Jellema