purge, interrupted

After much talk and preparation – which consisted mostly of obsessing and fretting, I have begun the unenviable task of clearing out my storage space. It’s been a daily ordeal.  I show up at the storage facility, punch in the convoluted nine digit code – after ten straight visits I Read more

By justk, ago

shift one

my settings are off.  there’s been a universal shift, imperceptible to the eye.  random passersby are oblivious.  even acquaintances remain unknowing until i verbalize the details in answer to “what’s new?”.   is it still new?   it’s three wednesdays since his last breath.  is that a lot of time Read more

By justk, ago

over the hump of 6.20.12

A psychic goodbye by B.H. Whisper/ Quietly/ My name/ Before you go. The night is long. Night passes through the day/ To night once more Happiness to sadness/ Nothing is ever as before. A wisp of change/ Or twitch of Fate’s /Shriveled hand/ Don’t shed a tear nor try to Read more

By justk, ago

God’s broken telephone

There are a lot of people claiming to have a direct line to God.  Their conversations don’t leave me with a lot of faith.  I mean really, if I called up and the voice on the end of the line was telling me to go kill someone for them, I’d Read more

By justk, ago

all the little details

My bank offered me a line of credit last week.  There was a small questionnaire that’s usually a minor formality but because I answer yes that someone in my family had been diagnosed with cancer before the age of sixty a follow-up interview was necessary. And so we begin.  Last Doctor’s visit?  A Read more

By justk, ago

the vibrancy of the moment after

I figured out eventually that it’s not the death and dying, its the absence of the living.  Absence being the key.  The death and dying part are but a moment, it’s the after part that throws your world upside down and inside out. The absence of that person, once so Read more

By justk, ago

Baby Steps

‘Stating the Obvious’ alert.  Obviously it’s a challenge to keep my posts regular.  This blogging business is harder than I thought.  But that’s obviously true for much of life, you just don’t know until you know.  And you can’t know until you try.  So I’m going to give this another Read more

By justk, ago