THE END OF THE BEGINNING

It was the desire for mashed potatoes that finally pulled me to the grocery store for the first time in nearly a month. I was already in the neighborhood, and though I had basically resigned myself to just making do with what I have from here…

THE GREAT EQUALIZER

(Tribute piece to Governor Cuomo) Jesus came this morning to my door with his light and grace depositing success, good health, and happiness. Try to relax, he says. I nod, I feel blessed. He happens to look like Andrew Cuomo, and I find that…

BONE BROTH AND GARLIC SOCKS

About two weeks into quarantine, my emotions start to get deeper, and I begin to eat more chocolate. I don’t feel like going to the park as much, and I start to develop a sore throat. My first thought is the take-out I got yesterday, in my…

IN THE REVOLUTION THERE WILL BE COOKIES

Today I felt the first pangs of loneliness, which caught me off guard. “I got this!” I had said just recently, citing my meditation practice, work as a writer, and inherent introversion. I did not seem to be mourning the loss of social life…

SOMETHING DECIDEDLY UNSERIOUS

Aka, The Journey of the Dragon and the Delivery Boy and how they went to find the Big Man in the Sky ... Dragons like to sleep. Many dragons can sleep for years on end, if there is nothing interesting happening. This particular dragon…

THE TASK OF COHABITATION

Overnight we are in the midst of a war. Those who can escape to the countryside. Those who can’t are forced to stay. We don’t know for how long we will be confined and separated. That last farewell, fare the well, is left floating in the…

COLLECTIVE RESILIENCE

By now people are dying. Many already have, and more will join them. So far, we are the lucky ones. The survivors bearing witness to this once in a generation phenomenon. Human mortality, front and center and fading. The centers of outbreak…

Love in the time of COVID-19

The outbreak of a global pandemic seemed as good a time as any to begin microdosing MDMA and LSD. Ego-dissolving empathy-inducing party drugs. A little big of help lightening the heart in the midst of global depression. Be the light, even if…

GUT GEMACHT

Gut gemacht. Was ? And that’s the point. It’s not a thing to remember, or even watch. We do not need complicated reasons to love someone. Nor sex, or even romance. Just to love someone’s being in the world, their individual addition,…

BEING IN THE COMMON

Over the years it has become increasingly interesting for me to hear others speak of Emotional Permaculture. For one person, it was storing the large suitcase of a friend in their very small closet, because he had the experience of other people…