Life is filled with so much noise these days. Street noise. Alexa talking back. Music blaring while watching netflix and working on a strategic document. Dogs barking. Kids playing and crying. The dishwasher shaking. The refrigerator humming. The pipes piping. Phone ringing. Texts dinging. Planes roaring overhead. Noise. […]
Some days I write more insightfully. Other days, it is a quick thought jotted down for all to read at their leisure. But everyday I strive to write. It serves as a way to gain insight into myself. What spills out onto the keyboard lets me know what […]
I’ve got this! Took me a week or more. Actually a few months. Each year, just like Merriam Webster and others alike, I chose a word of the year. Sometimes it is retrospectively applied. Other times, I pick a word for the coming year to help frame my […]
Quell, quiet the noise Send quivers into the storm Pondering the quantum mechanics of it all Hungrily quaffing all in sight Question reality The self can be quizzed Quicken the pace of introspection To be quirky is to be free
We all have quirks and rituals. I grew up loving baseball and that is a sport filled with very superstitious players. They have all sorts of rituals to “help” them win as well as avoid injuries. For instance, outfielder Alou urinates on his hands throughout the season in […]
Thoughts running round and round in her head. Paint. Break. Tear. Cry. Fear. Wild colors. Jeer. Pastels. Imagine. She couldn’t. Chop chop. Frenetic. Frantic. Frazzled. It was going to be ok. It had to be. Rulers and measures were all that she had left to go by. But […]
I love the color pink. I didn’t always. However, the last eight to ten years, pink has become my friend. It makes me happy. I like to twirl about in pink. Although, I didn’t love pink as a girl I did love that Pretty in Pink movie. It’s […]
I had a really difficult time falling asleep. Not just last night. It has been so the past two weeks. One can say I’m running on fumes. I had to step back and tell myself it was ok to just sit and listen to my thoughts. When you […]
What a sad, sad world Where the lonely roam the hallways Fogged in and distant A dark world for dark goals A window watching a bright night The sky holding all secrets Leaking like an old faucet Big mouth takes over And the mute papered over What a […]
I will state it from the outset. I do not care for wireless earphones. I really don’t. I know they are all the rage. Everywhere I turn, someone has them on. It seems like so many feel like it bestows prestige upon the earphone wearer. I don’t get […]