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A dear friend of mine died last Sunday.I just found out about it today.Ironic that I was looking for something in my closet just the other day andlooked up on my bookshelf to see my old copy of “Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, the cult novel by Robert Persig.Its pink and black cover reeking [...]
Archive for the ‘deaths’ Category
Get it right next time
Posted: 17th February 2010 by ~m in Angels, Books, Cigars, Classic Literature, Friends, Music, Personal, Video, deathsTags: deaths, Friends, Heaven, Life, Love, sadness
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Lush Life
Posted: 10th November 2009 by ~m in Dreams, Family, God, Irish, Jazz music, Life, Music, Old Days, Personal, Sad, blues, chances, dark, deaths, prayer, twinsTags: Coltrane, deaths, Lush Life, Music, Old Days, questions, sad but true, Strayhorn, twins
Special dedication tonight as I recall a smoky dive from the 50’s called the ‘Waltz Club’ . . .
Long story and definitely not one for this blog.
I knew of one of the patron saints of the place, from what I’ve heard.
Sweet dreams, lady, sweet and smoky dreams
Maybe I’ll see you in them . . .
[11.9.09]
*I [...]
Quiet Place
Posted: 30th March 2009 by ~m in Birthdays, Family, God, Life, Love, alzheimer's disease, dancing, deaths, hopeTags: alzheimer's disease, Birthdays, Love, Video
Our Mom would have been 81 today.
It was on my mind from the minute I got up today.
For her wake, I made a CD with a slew of tunes that I thought she would like.
This was one of them.
Unfortunately, the audio quality on this is real sub par for Take Six.
Get out the headphones.
It helps.
Whoever [...]
Little Green Apples
Posted: 18th March 2009 by ~m in Angels, Baseball, Cigars, Family, Food, Friends, God, Irish, Life, Love, Music, Personal, Sad, blues, deaths, hope, prayerTags: Cigars, Family, laughter, Life, Love, Music, Sad
It was my day off today and though I had 1,000 things to do I went to a funeral for a dear family friend.
It was just much more important than those 1,000 things.
JFW has been in and out of my life for as long as I’ve been on the blessed earth.
Now that he’s gone, I [...]
Short story for Mrs. Mac
Posted: 22nd December 2008 by ~m in Creative, Deadly wind, Internet, dark, deaths, fathers and daughters, flash fiction, women, writers, writingTags: english class, fiction, fun parks, horror, writing
My daughter Hannah takes an Honors English class with a very cool teacher named “Mrs. Mac”.
Pamela and I met her a few months ago at ‘Parents Night’ and thought she was one seriously intelligent woman.
Make no bones about it, this woman doesn’t put up with mediocrity.
That said, Hannah showed me a short story she recently [...]
Imagine
Posted: 8th December 2008 by ~m in Angels, Creative, Imagine, Music, Old Days, Sad, amazing, anniversaries, dark, deathsTags: deaths, Lennon, Music, The Beatles
I remember a moment 28 years ago like it was just yesterday.
And here we are still trying to imagine.
And Lennon’s memory lives on . . .
J0ker
Posted: 15th July 2008 by ~m in Batman, Creative, DC Comics, Gotham, Heath Ledger, Hollywood, Personal, The Dark Knight, dark, deaths, movies, webcomicsTags: Batman, Dark Knight, DC Comics, deaths, Gotham, Heath Ledger, Hollywood, movies, urban legend
Slice to 0pen, staple to close
the mar00n red smear of a greasepaint smile, a calling card in cumulonimbus,
pregnant with dark water
Black crack, skies 0pen
0pen eyes close
an inc0mprehensible and maniacal palette of colour; in whites, greens, blacks and reds
a primary psych0tic mind in full fundamental whack
as the world begins to hem0rrhage innuend0
No way 0ut, dead end [...]
Genesis {3}
Posted: 14th July 2008 by ~m in Angels, Dreams, Family, Life, Love, Personal, Sacred, Sleep, Stars, Truth, alzheimer's disease, anniversaries, deaths, prayerTags: anniversary, deaths, Deep thoughts, Life, Love, Mother
There’s a sacred moment lost somewhere between the dreamworld and my waking hours
that you are alive, still within me, heart beating, the assuring rhythm of your breath
Though the moment quickly dies, the memory of you continues to live; a complex composition of stars shining down from the heavens,
the genesis of untold galaxies,
the perpetual continuation of [...]
Grave
Posted: 25th May 2008 by ~m in Friends, Life, Music, Personal, Truth, Video, War, deaths, hero, prayerTags: honor, Life, memorial day, soldiers, Truth, War
To futures lost . . . and futures won.
Never forget and forever honor the personal sacrifice of the soldier.
Remember, especially today.
A Happy Memorial Day to all