Monthly Archives: September 2011

Renegade lives

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Dionysus, the Greek God of wine, is the protector of those who don’t belong to conventional society. He symbolizes danger, chaos, unpredictability–everything that escapes human reason and can only be attributed to the unforeseeable action of the gods. In the … Continue reading →

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Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

My friend’s daughter killed herself last Sunday. She was 19. She was also strikingly beautiful but that doesn’t matter. Why write it then? Maybe because my previous post was about youth, beauty and potential then came this brutal, tragic coincidence. … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Youth

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

Youth is wasted. Remember that? Youth is wasted on the young, I mean, not that they are just plain wasted. I was thinking about that George Bernard Shaw truism because I have a youth for a son, and his girlfriend is … Continue reading →

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Photographs and memories

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

I have stopped taking photographs. This feels significant and closely tied in with my death-writing. I’ve stopped taking photographs because they wear me down. Although invisible for the most part, these snapshots (as they were once so charmingly called) plug … Continue reading →

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