words to make a difference
I sat at a well-worn table in what used to be a store, now turned into a cultural center of sorts. Listening to a poetry reading. I don’t even remember when I was at a live poetry reading before that.
Darkening images fly past, outside the softly vibrating glass.
There’s a draft from the window. Bags stowed everywhere.
Black lands with black images, skies of all absorbing velvet
Words in pictures Pictures of words Impressions captured in a moment
Michael was looking forward to being back in the metropolis where he once lived. Stepping off the train there, he’d meet Jody. It’d been ages. And the last time had gone spectacularly badly.
The coronavirus has affected everything, making life feel like a downward spiral. Like being stuck in a totally dysfunctional family, with no way out. Or is there one? A future after this pandemic?
A lot of things in life don’t get done. They’re big. Scary. Complicated. And we don’t know how or where to get started. So we don’t face our giants. It’s safer that way. Except we miss out on so much…
Home. We live there. Leave and come back. But what does ‘home’ really mean? And what makes something or someplace ‘home’?
When there’s a problem in life, we want to find a solution. That’s natural. Part of what makes us human.
The quicker, the better. But what if there’s a price…