would-be ‘world-improver’

thank you Susan Sontag sister in arms truth teller believer in humans practitioner of ‘the evangelical incentive’. thank you today that I can see where my earnest idealistic sense of human potential and the sometimes blind sometimes poetic fist-shaking...

sorrow

have you met them yet the ones not afraid of sorrow? oh don’t look puzzled. you know them. they light the fire of their eyes on the embers of the sorrow others would have carry like burning stones to the grave....

let go

do not go to the end of the line wishing you’d dropped the dragging you down do not be left there panting gasping for breath final breath wishing you had let them go more easily. it is easy. it is that easy. there is something else you are meant to carry and....

control

who has said restraint honors righteous boundary? who says that taking this one moment standing there before you plainly in waiting to throw your arms around is not the most righteous honoring ever ever ever?! who says, after...

moment gone

throw your arms around somebody right now. now! this moment is gone. think will you please what you’ll have missed take it now. live.