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Protected: Letter Before Leaving
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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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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Rua Tavares Bastos 238 with Family & Friends
An afternoon of loving company – winning hearts and minds. Swapping stories over freshly baked rye bread and hot coffee. Only the breeze was cool and the passage of time slow. Exactly what well-lived-in-homes are for: people, sharing space and time, often over food, and pouring out a few hours of life into a common…
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Blood, on tasting your own
Amazing how pain can distort and color the lenses with which you see life. Over the past few weeks I’ve grown more and more combative, fearful, irrational, in my dealings with Roxanne. It seems to be becoming something palpable. It seems to be a shape, a something I can almost feel and taste in me.…
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Ends and Means
I’d like not to tell you, but to show you. It is so much more visceral that way. The condition of the place – I wonder in what way is the character of the place like that of the man who makes of it his own home – are they reflections? Can they be otherwise?…
Photographs. Sort of.