I want to talk about a feeling that comes up for most of us from time to time, the one that cloys like sweet musk and has a weightiness that presses and lingers. It’s a…
Posts tagged beauty
Summer days
As I walk down the street on this summer day, I’m walking through every other summer day that came before. All of the ones contained within me burst open like that barefooted girl running…
Travel Vignettes — Costa Rica & Nicaragua
When I think of Costa Rica, only one day away from it now, its borders residing somewhere south of me, I remember a coolness. Perhaps because our last destination was Monteverde, a high-up mountain town…
The grace of strangers
There’s a grace to strangers. A voyeuristic sense of wonder that comes from observing people at home in cultures that are new to me, in cities and towns I’m walking for the first time. Everywhere…
Aging, Falling
A man walks into a cafe. He’s a little drunk. He looks to his left, and falls over an unsuspecting table at the sight of a beautiful woman lounging on a couch Men fall over…
Nostalgia, my funny friend
Nostalgia visits me sometimes. More often than many, I would venture to guess. When it comes, it weighs like a heavy cloud on my chest, moist and full of emotion, threatening to burst, in streams down…