Archives: July2009

• In the woods

  I woke up with the giant redwoods with their ancient columns and patterns long warn and filed away by the elements. Walking among their vaulted halls and cathedrals with endless skylights.
  I feel at home in the fairytales of these great beanstalks. I wonder where they’d take me if I were to climb further. I’ve missed these magical and sweet things.
  The city sells me pretty things, sexy things, shallow things, loud things, always new and always so used things but [...]

• 1st Post Card-Skipping Town

  I’m skipping town tomorrow; a boy and his dog chasing adventure, making up the story as we go along. He’ll bark at me about politics and do a horrible job of pointlessly pointing outside my field of view.  While he navigates, I’ll fantasize about the court testimony I’d give if I let him drive. The inevitable questions and shock when I seriously account for my faith in the dog’s ability to do a better job driving than your average 19 [...]

• In Desolation

  My stories and songs are rarely my own. I am not at the epicenter of all my adventures, thank god. Sometimes it is I who am Poncho, just a single line, the boy and his dog that play witness to some other crazy bastard tilting head at windmills, conquering cliffs and imaging laying siege to castles. I enjoy paving way and serving as a lone audience to the building legends and comedies of other romances. Out here I get to [...]

• Fun in the Wild

  This is all I know of home. My father told me it’s the best place to talk to God  and where you can hear God talk back to you. he and I have much to talk about and sort out. I don’t yet claim to know him in the way that others do, and know that I speak perhaps only to myself, subconscious but here I find center. Here, I still believe he is paying attention somewhere, compassionately laughing at [...]

• Seasonal Charms

  My words are many and make up  loosely woven green sleeves for Spring. The fresh ideas and dreams comfort you in the summer with their shade. I fall for your smile and follow you to the river and  you come to me with your picnics and dress me in hammocks.
  I watch your how your limbs dance and rock in the wind and how you carry your trunk carelessly and bare into the stream. You make me quake and sway. I [...]

• Creepy Serial Romance- How to Scare Away Women With A Song

  So I was working on another song and had to pull a few twisted lines from it and couldn’t resist playing with them, before I knew it I had this insanely creepy thing that I hope you find eerie and hilarious. Usually I write sweet sensitive things and rarely embrace the inner sarcastic Carlin inspired 13 year old boy.
  Sometimes, there are people we all have to chase away and have no nice way to put it so we have to [...]

• Patience

  When I think about cultivating patience, I think about children. When others think about patience, they think of standing in a waiting line at the DMV. I think of children. It takes great patience to teach children and great compassion and humility to learn from them.  I can’t yet visualize myself as a father but I can imagine the pride I would take as a father and how it would fuel my devotion and drive to teach what I have [...]

• The Simple Life

  A playful fantasy to live under the guise of a simple man, to be nurtured and fulfilled by simple places, plain homes and conversations, but those are too small and stagnant for me. My dreams and thoughts are to big and wondrous to bury in the back yard, yet I have come to appreciate the simple things in life.
  To be a simple man,
  finding all the answers in brand names and beer cans,
  chasing faceless skirts, wearing  dirty jeans and [...]

• The Sum of My Experience- 3 point shot

  1. The absolute importance of community- it takes a village.. to raise this village idiot. I am independent, hear me roar, oh crap my pitch is off? Thanks for telling me. Without friendship and community I’d be lost in myself with nothing to aspire to and a complete oblivious burden to society. I prefer to be a very conscious burden to society- at least that way I can enjoy it.
  2. The importance of a life-long dedication  to growth and increased [...]

• Under The Bed

  What feelings haunt me? What demons live under the bed, closet, or in the confines of boots beyond sight? What emotions do I fear creeping up over the baseboards?
  Worry I suppose, the thief of exploration and confidence. Worry is the creditor’s favorite restraint. Worry keeps my feet on the ground when I need to take a leap of faith. I would say that worry worries me but I don’t think about it enough to let it bother me. I don’t [...]