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Know Knot

It is impossible to know the ending this story, for the simple reason that it is not over. This is, at best, a chapter’s closing This chapter was about me going to Rio to see my father, and there to enjoy his company, speak my heart, listen, and try to provide whatever kind of…
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re place ment

What does it mean “to know a place”. There is not a where you may go to find it. There is not a who to ask, or a when to look. There is no how to do or hold it. Nothing that can be sought and found out there, is Place. Yet it is yours,…
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Com Asa Branca

It was raining here in Rio today. The morning was spent working on the water boxes; the first is nearly dry, because we somehow left open a valve, and water ran to a running toilet all night, and the second has been dry for months while in need of repairs to it’s bottom. Since…
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Foot in the other Shoe

I had known it in theory. I too would need to be held at bay. It has been hard on me to realize, at early length with greater and greater concern, that my father will need – does need – assistance of a sort that he is unlikely to receive. When I first thought of assistance…