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  • She Loves Me (again, still, forever)


    If the world won't end
    with a bang but a wimper ( T.S. Eliot )



    then love endures forever
    with the small simple things,



    not the large displays of Halmark grandure. 


    The one who is the object of my desire
    left me a message on my work phone. 



    She was in Boston at 7:30AM,
    the time she usually rises,


    earlier than I even get in to work 



    You see we are Yin and Yang

    around our schedules. 



    I am a 5AM riser,
    she is a midnight sleeper. 



    I love the morning stillness -
    she the nights late languide peace.



    Today the message light green glow
    told me nothing new


    She is the circle in my Yang,
    our ends curling toward


    Nothing but Pi.

  • I'm Melting!


    OK, all of you down South can laugh at me, but this damn heat is just getting to me.  Yes, I'm the fool  that thinks Scotland weather was down right nice, but when the dew-point approaches the temperature and just standing around you start to sweat I say enough!  Do you know what that MiddleAgeGuy down in Texas calls this heat?  Spring  Alright, alright, alright I'll stop.  I'll remember these days longingly and a bit wistfully when we hit -14° in February.


    Man, I've got to switch to decaf ...


    Oh, and another thing (rant engine is full on!), support his cause, Lance Armstrong.  This guy does what would be an insane tourture test and does it better than anyone else, six times better.  Cancer survivor to sports legend, incredible. 


    And another thing ... I'm going to Castle, your move!



     

  • They're Back!


    After last weeks DNC here in Boston I thought civility might have returned to the city.  During the convention of ideas that wasn't (political disclaimer: the Republican's convention will be equal or less in meaningful discussion) people wandered the streets around here like survivors of some hideous natural disaster; you were glad when you met someone who didn't have a press badge on, who with their wry grin let you know that a native was well met - isn't amazing we can get seats at restaurants?  But that was THEN!  My commute in on my bike was celebrated with the blaring of horns so consciously missed by their absence last week; cyclists had that heads down lets get the hell there posture, traffic ground to a standstill, cars and trucks making large temporary pylons for my early morning slalom course to work.  Starbucks, crowded and noisy, work busy and hectic; welcome back all you DNC castaways!  Now get the hell out of my way!!!

  • The Old Wood


    A taste of things to come


    I have come to understand
    now
    my time here is short


    I have watched the trees stand
    grow
    only to wither and fall


    I am old wood in the forest
    gnarled
    wisdom returning to earth

  • Combination Loch


    Ode to Loch Eileen


    I drempt I lived alone,
    completely alone,
    no eye held me,
    no gaze fell me,
    a history without time.


    Phosphoressent white
    burns clear my sight,
    dissolves so slowly,
    reveals so slowly,
    a figure quite sublime.


    You wore a wistful grin,
    without chagrin,
    your body bare,
    our bodies bare,
    a single pair of souls.


    I drempt you were gone,
    completely gone,
    without your light,
    without you in sight,
    a sorrow as deep
    as a Loch may be.

  • A Pair


    Isn't it funny that a young pair of Cardinals should take to nesting near my place.

  • How Trivial Our Ministrations





    When you've been hiking the Cairngorms; God breathes here.


    Like I said, from ...



    ... and Carrbridge



    ... to the Top of the Cairngorms.



    Scotland was amazing.


     

  • Sans Trash Cans





    I noticed slowly, like thinking in molasses, why can't I throw this napkin away?  I was walking down the street and I wanted to do my civic duty, no litterbug I, just toss the thing into the nearest receptacle.  I looked and I just stopped in my tracks; the trash cans were gone.  All of them.  Up and down the street, freshly paved for the DNC dignitarati, new trees and no cans. I guess the old trees didn't stand up and salute quite right.   I wonder what they did with all the cans?  Is there some large pile of thousands upon thousands of metal bins stacked up behind some triple-decker in Dorchester?

  • Choppers Overhead


    There is a chopper hovering outside of the Prudential building, just sitting there on station, waiting for something or someone unknown; man that is weird.  City streets are empty of the usual hustle and bustle, honking horns, crush of people.  The only souls on the street are those like myself, to indignant to take a week off due to the convention and the conventioneers. 


    If you have ever seen a conventioneer, not one who is a 'player', just your average Joe, you will just laugh.  Festooned with buttons and slogans they are walking billboards of political angst.  Upon seeing such a sight you might say "wow, participation in the political process, that's great!"  Or you might think to yourself, "these people vote?"  The DNC is upon us.

  • Monday After Vacation (DNC Blues)





    I don't ordinarily grouse after a vacation, especially after a week in the Scottish Highlands where all my internal angst or whatever you call the inner tension I walk around with had washed away.  My traveling companions remarked that I was completely in the ... "whatever."  I had reached a wonderful state of NOW in those mountains.  I'll try to keep that Zen going ... well maybe I can by not complaining about the future of my day as I try to make my way to downtown Boston.  Yes, maybe I did take back something from the Highlands, something special indeed.  On the bike and off to work!


    If you ever do get to Northern Scotland you'll notice the air.  What an amazing absence of all the mix that makes us not notice the air we breath.  Clear and fresh this mix of inhaled refreshment.  If you do go, I hope the exchange rate was better than it was to us.  I took out 100 GBP from the ATM, it showed up at my bank as $189!  Well worth it