the journey home..

"they" read this at funerals:

2009-12-10T14:30:37Z

there's a season for everything,.... a time for every matter:.... there's a time to be born, and there most certainly is a time to die. apparently the fall of 2009 is the time to die.

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and this will happen again; will i actually change?

2009-12-05T19:03:30Z

the death of an acquaintance is peculiar. mostly, i feel regret for the actions i often display around people i barely know. sometimes, when seeing one in passing, i will simply ignore them, not to disturb them nor i. i choose for them how they'd ...

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i'm going to say it,

2009-10-15T22:03:29Z

i'm not happy. but happiness was never God's plan for me, it was redemption

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i know quoting lyrics shouldn`t qualify as a blog post..

2009-10-08T05:36:22Z

if we can call them friends then we can call them on their telephones and they won't pretend that they're too busy or that they're not alone and if we can call them friends then we can call holler at them down these hallowed halls just don't l...

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company with you and the saints

2009-09-15T07:10:35Z

Another mug of coffee emptied, and another day wishing it was spent mostly in bed. Ice cream attempts failed, but you fail to forget me. Moping, i find a cornerstore, to buy a popsicle, reach into my pocket looking for three quarters and in my ha...

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this needs to be blogged.

2009-05-17T20:48:34Z

I found this poem in a journal I haven't started yet. my guess was it was written late 2008/early 2009. i can ask questions like, Lord, why would you make us suffer? or continue to shift human blame onto God in other ways. i can make myself more...

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stigma & success in a society of messed-up values..

2009-05-06T04:07:39Z

Maybe some of you know that I work in long term, high level, supportive housing for folks who are diagnosed with schizophrenia. imagine 3 row-house with the insides knocked down, 21 single-occupancy rooms, a giant kitchen & a pile of living rooms....

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june + july!

2009-05-01T03:15:02Z

دير القديس سمعان الخراز . عزبة الذبالين. منشاة ناصر. القاهرة. مصر will be my home for five weeks --- saint samaan the tanner monastery, mansheat nasser, garbage village, cairo.

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endings [or maybe, beginnings]

2009-04-20T03:54:25Z

i've been in school since i was three, but in three days i will be done school. (for i don't know how long). there's a lot of things i will miss about university, a lot of things learned. i'm making a running list of these things, random memorie...

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I didn't ask to be born.

2009-04-13T23:22:30Z

Maybe you know this kind of crying; mostly silent and a constant flow of warm tears. Yesterday was Easter Sunday, my most important holiday (yet I couldn't find my way to a church at all during Holy Week). I was on a greyhound bus toward Kitchene...

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