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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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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…
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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?…
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Letter to the Family

Dearest Family, (written on the night of Oct. 4th, read and cleared for distribution by Bill on Oct. 5th.) I’m writing in hopes of answering a few questions – and probably raising many more. Certainly I will not be able to spell out every detail of what I’m here pursuing – there are a myriad…
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Face First

Have been on the ground now for almost a full twenty hours. Amazing how instantaneously cultural habits return, how easy it is to slip back into an old skin… Doing Heraclitus great injury, I would appropriate his – no man wears the same old skin twice the same way. It would be easy to become…