Freight Train Boogie –to help you keep you up and rollin’ on down the line!
And Suddenly…
It’s back, seemingly out of nowhere it is back. It’s a surprise. You knew it would come, but it still comes as a surprise: one day it’s the same grey and brown and beige barren landscape you’ve been greeting each and every morning for months. And though your eyes have been looking at it for […]
A Blue Collar Dusk…
Stompin’ out rhythm on metal grates, Push and grind in the sweat and grime. Underneath ribbons of high power lines. Fork lifts. Air brakes. Clanging steel plates. On the backroads, near the low bridge, Synchronized wheels squeal, screech, and whine Wooden trestles shake loaded down by freight. Trundling past an American asphalt pitted Rhine. Amidst […]
“I Focus on the Pleasure…
something I can treasure.” -Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem A Little Muppet philosophy to start your week, because; “jelly belly giggling, dancing and a wiggling, honey that’s the way I am.”
Lest They Be Forgotten
There is no real glory in war, and none should be given to it. But there should always be remembrance, praise, and thanks for those who sacrifice and pay untold costs, and even the grave for us. And for Papa, a Battling Bastard, I always take time to remember… Captured on Corregidor Islands; POW ’42-’45, […]
Barbell Therapy…
or mourning on the platform. My father died this week, unexpectedly. Yes, I am in shock, and very much heartbroken. But, how I am grieving over it, compared to how I would have expected myself to grieve over it, had I imagined myself in this very situation, is quite different. I think the way I […]
Head On…
That’s how you overcome the fears. I talk about looking into your shadows, fears, and failures so much because you have to know what’s hiding there in the dark corners of your mind like a boogie man. Those fears that are making you live a little less fully and shrink away from life a little […]
Art is Long, and Time is fleeting…
A Psalm of Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!– For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is ernest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, and dust returnest Was not spoken of the soul. […]
As They Say…
If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes. There’s snow on the ground again, but that’s no matter, Because hopefully I have something here to ease your cabin fever. I know I’ve done something like this on my blog before now, in some fashion, and they’re blue flowers, not white. But still, little flowers […]