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Archive for July, 2009

only you

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", life, love on July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Two paths converged this week. I was listening to Neil Young:
I want to live
I want to give
I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold.
The saddest lyric in that song is:
and I’m getting old.
I thought about my searches for a heart of gold. What that meant to me was finding someone who would love me [...]

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a whole world

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", books, life on July 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I was in an elementary school library this week doing volunteer work. As I shelved books, I thought about the first time I saw a library. I was nine. It was located at the school I’d just started. I remember the wonder of all the books around me. I remember selecting one about a boy [...]

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pale with heat

Posted in "Dark Angels", "Karleen Koen", "Now Face to Face", "Through A Glass Darkly", Houston, life on July 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The day was spent on the coast, near a place called Christmas Bay, spent by the ocean, under a tarp we set up. The coast is brown, acorn and ivory, with seaweed the color of coffee grounds. The sea is fawn-colored, sand and silt mixed in, so you can’t see the bottom; sometimes there’s an [...]

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