Living the DREAM
If I live to be 90, I will have spent 30 years asleep, and fully 6 years dreaming. Existing in an insane fugue state.
READ MORE..Life In A Montage
Post-stroke; living in that 60 second movie healing montage that actually takes years.
the Monkey & the Maestro
Two friends have directed animated films coming out this month. Tony Stacchi’s THE MONKEY KING (on Netflix) & Jim Capobianco’s THE INVENTOR (in US cinemas).
READ MORE..Robert John Baker
Any father is difficult to sum up for a child of that man. Separating father, the role, and Dad, the person. Robert John Baker 1939 – 2023.
READ MORE..Return of the Peregrinati
Any hometown is a memory palace, and moving through it unlocks feelings from long ago.
READ MORE..Dance Of The Mayflies
Coping with impermanence and helping others persevere through their own mounting frailties, is one of the main missions of being human.
READ MORE..My Most Rebellious Organ
The surgeon flipped through cross-sectional slices of my own brain, like so much luncheon meat. A shaman reading portents in animal giblets, explaining the signs in my head-spam.
READ MORE..Let’s see..
Most things of true value in a human life are leaps of faith – in others or ourselves – and can’t be achieved by thinking like an accountant.
READ MORE..LUCA
This story makes me deeply nostalgic for a seaside Italian childhood that I never actually had.
READ MORE..thoughts from the porch
I’m still grateful for my second chance at LIFE. I’ve not yet forgotten how lucky I am to be above the grass, and I hope I never do.
READ MORE..SOUL
When a crisis hits, it forces a rethink, about who we are and what we bring to the world.
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