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Thanksgiving …

Once again, it’s that time of year … time to sit back and reflect on all that I am thankful for.

Work continues to chug along. The bet that I made that our stock would rebound last fall has paid off nicely … I lowered my average cost significantly, and my portfolio is above water [...]

2009 Ride #47

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First time on the bike in 3 weeks … my Saturdays have been busy with the UTCX series, and the past couple of Sundays were either bad weather or otherwise booked (such as a trip to the zoo last weekend). I could tell that [...]

Poetry Friday

DRAWING FROM LIFE

Look: I am building absence out of this room’s air, I’m reading suppositions into summer’s script snarled on a varnished floor. It looks like a man. That knot’s his hand waving good-bye, that stippled stripe of grain’s the stacked-up vertebrae of his turned back. Small birds (sparrows or finches, or perhaps) are [...]

2009 Ride #33

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Oh my God … I actually felt good today … legs were a little stiff when I first started off, but by the time I hit the mouth of Emigration Canyon, they were nice and loose, and my breathing was going fairly well too … I didn’t have to pull over to [...]

Summertime Blues

I hate summer. Yeah … I said it. I hate summer. Spring, winter and fall? Love them, but I can’t stand the heat of summer.

I’m pretty sure I’ve written somewhere in the past about how I seem to get seasonal affective disorder, but in reverse … I relish the winter, and always seem to [...]

Poetry Friday

AND YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE

Someone waits at my door. Because he is      dead he has time but I have my secrets—

     this is what separates us from the dead. See, I could order take-out or climb down

the fire escape, so it’s not as though he      is keeping [...]

Poetry Friday

ELEGY V

In summer’s heat, and mid-time of the day, To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay; One window shut, the other open stood, Which gave such light as twinkles in a wood, Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun, Or night being past, and yet not day begun. Such light to [...]

2009 Ride #20

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Standard loop, a couple breathing problems climbing up to the zoo, but felt pretty good beyond that. Only real problem is that summer seems to have hit the 801 in full force … going from mid-70s earlier this week, to mid-90s today.

Heat, especially rapid heat, is not something I do so [...]

Poetry Friday

SOLSTICE

On the first full day of summer the sun is up the sky as far as it will get and now it will head south to warm the Antipodes, where today it rains and gales blow up from the Antarctic.

Here it is summer already, the lawn mowed, garden weeded and nostalgia for summers [...]

Video Poetry (50 Foot Version)

50FOOTWAVE – CLARA BOW

I didn’t use you, but I wish I had I never liked you, but I wish I did But I wish I did

Whether it was soaking in your poppy tea Or your southern hospitality Your voice has a singsong quality And bones were made to be broken Bones were [...]