On a flight from New York to Helsinki, Finland, the people sitting close enough to see, and even possibly the staff, might have thought I was having a personal “episode” of some kind, because while watching this film, I not only teared up but I actually cried some minutes during one of the crucial scenes. […]
Stille Nacht: A Flash Memoir- 21 June 2011
Looking out of the window down to what I could see of the lake, for in summer the lush greenery mostly obscures the shifting waters except for slivers of misty grey, I was playing a CD of songs I’d collected over the years. Its title “soundtracks” was written on the burned disk and since it […]
Germany: Night On The Lake
There’s only a few hours at most of dark night here in summer. The kind of night where the sky is nearly black or so deep a blue you can’t see the trees in silhouette. Yet here, around the twenty-third hour, eleven p.m. the sky finally becomes that color. Until then, it’s twilight, first a […]
See You On the Other Side
Yesterday. For all that I am a dreamer, in that periodically I experience a future view of life that comes true, both good or bad, I do not take omen in signs. There are some things I seem to have superstitions about, but I do have a pointed determination to take whatever comes as it […]
“What Might Have Been”–Reading Old Love Letters
Ah, the wistful memories of youth. As troubled as mine was before my “zero hour” came, there were times of joy, moments of precious, private pleasure. Almost at my fourth decade now, even when I look back knowing what eventually came of those hopeless infatuations, the unrequited loves and painful crushes, it is so very […]
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