Retooling life for part 2

Tag: life journey

The praxis of taxes

The praxis of taxes

Taxes are great. I love a race against the clock.

On Jimmy Carter

On Jimmy Carter

I plucked President Carter’s The Virtues of Aging off the library shelf and since I’m midlife refitting, I took it home. My mother always said, “It’s hell to get old.”, why not work to attach some grace to the concept? Let’s see what old Jimmy has…

Gripped

Gripped

Gripped By the fear that Is. life transformed in an instant where never again can you go back to the has been. Frozen in an instant while living the rest of life. There was a point. I continued to “just do it” way before nike,…

Two days left of 50

Two days left of 50

The theory is we all move through life at the same speed. A second is a second after all, no? I’d like to put forth it’s the quality of that movement through those uniform seconds that changes how fast we live our lives. My life…

Lackluster Life

Lackluster Life

My life has verdigris around the edges.Part mold, part tarnish, full inattention. I learn (and must learn) again and againit’s as easyif not easierto accomplish the taskthan drag it outin angst to awful infinity,the reward of completion so sweet. Scrape the green all together from…

Glimmers of Rain

Glimmers of Rain

It makes sense that glimmers are something fleeting and flashy while triggers … well, a gun comes to mind. So I would think the glimmers have to be pretty special to carry as much weight. I suppose both things are continuua, the severity, the soothiness,…