The Asshole Look
The past is, for me, like some long-forgotten workout that helped make me a little bit stronger today than I would have been without it.
Tom
Firefighters are a Different Breed (An Ode to a Brotherhood)
Firefighters are a different breed. Most don’t want to die old men and women, having done what normal men and women do.
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In the Morning After
In the distance, I hear a rumble. I look for you, but you aren’t there. I feel you, but have no idea where you are. I long for you, but will have to wait to […]
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Then the Pendulum Swings
You are not helpless. You are not without options. You are a Being of courage and experience.
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Beyond Words, Beyond Promises
For beyond words, beyond promises I stand, waiting for the moment when you can hear me speak without words and walk next to me without vows. There, you will be my drink, my breath, my lover, and the ground beneath our feet will be as stable as the wind beneath our wings. There, we will find heaven.
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The Bitter End, A Sweet Beginning
And in the minute the ending came, my life began. I’d like to believe that, and the million or so other clichés I’ve heard that are supposed to make me feel better about the bitter […]
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One Can Only Imagine (Thank you Team Hoyt)
Love isn’t something you read about in a book, or know through some discipline, or get from someone else.
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“I Love You Too,” she says.
It seems my biggest fear is to fall To fall “there” To fall beyond where my eyes can see Back to the absence of this certain sanity To a place where I once lived so comfortably Where all I […]
