Duke ⋅
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Our story’s old, older than the wind It’s been decided for years How can we pretend That we all know just how it’s gonna end Rescue me in the middle of the ocean Crashing down, it’s always hard ...
Louder Than Ever in General
You were there in the front seat, Windows down we were burning, It was just like a movie scene, Those dashboard lights, And your pale blue eyes cutting through me… -Daughtry, “Louder Than Ever” ...
Confluence in General
Today is two years since Sandy committed suicide. I still haven’t reconciled that, between who I knew as, and who she was. I still can’t comprehend how deep into a dark hole you would have to g...
Up the Wolves in General
Our mother has been absent Ever since we founded Rome But there’s gonna be a party when the wolf comes home.. Up to ‘Salem’s Lot to meet the newest member of the family. Only a few weeks old, a...
Oubliette There is a scene in the movie “Labrinth” where Hoggle explains to Sarah what a Oubliette was: “Yes. It’s a place you put people… to forget about ‘em!” Apparently in my home I have a mul...
More Than a Feeling in General
More Than a Feeling It’s more than a feeling When I hear that old song they used to play And I begin dreaming ‘Til I see Marianne walk away I see my Marianne walking away… I got up this morning,...
On-Ree Hurricane/Tropical Storm/Tropical Depression Henri was a great fat nothingburger in Maine, despite the shrieking of the media “The! First! Hurricane! To! Make! Landfall! In New England! In...
Feels Like Tonight in Background Noise
Feels Like Tonight My birth certificate tells me I am 59 at 530 tomorrow morning. I don’t have a lot of complaints. Most of the weird twingy pains from last Summer’s heart surgery have subside...
Too Late the Hero in General
So here I am, rocketing through the Coronoverse in my spiffy cool condo-ship. Other than an unpleasant week getting my chest cracked open last summer I pretty much live in my condo-ship. I do t...
Mazzy Star, always the masters of melancholy. Well. I suppose we could call this the bleak mid-winter, but that is a Christmas song, and I personally think of “The Bleak Mid Winter” as being Feb...
Better Days in Background Noise
Better Days And here we are again. Crazy early Christmas morning. A wind storm blowing a gale outside, and they have been predicting power outages all day. Also predicting torrential rain. The...
Let it Be Obviously I haven’t been writing a lot in the last few months. While I have felt “okay”, I haven’t felt great or even normal. Six month check in with my cardiologist included a chest ...
Valar Morghulis in General
Valar Morghulis Weird banging, clanging going on in my head. 19 years ago I was studying for the one-two punch of my NATOPS open and closed book exams. Sitting in the study of my house on Penn C...
Valar Morghulis in General
Valar Morghulis Weird banging, clanging going on in my head. 19 years ago I was studying for the one-two punch of my NATOPS open and closed book exams. Sitting in the study of my house on Penn C...
Memento Mori II in General
Memento Mori II So here we are two days later. I tried to go to the beach today, but they are limiting access, and the entrance was blocked. There is another way to the beach, down by the fort,...
Momento mori in General
Momento mori So I did this thing. After months of tests and planning I got up at 5AM and took yet another shower, using this weird presurgical soap that they warned me about getting in my eyes ...
Memento Mori in General
Momento mori So I did this thing. After months of tests and planning I got up at 5AM and took yet another shower, using this weird presurgical soap that they warned me about getting in my eyes ...
IV Orienteering – Foxtrot Company in General
I realized after trying to get ahold of my son for months. Yes, months. That my grandson doesn’t know me, or our family history. My son being a way too easily dismissible millennial has no ide...
The Night We Met in General
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Farewell and Adieu, You Fair Spanish Ladies in General
Farewell and adieu, you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston And never the more will we see you again… I am now officia...
Farewell and Adieu, You Fair Spanish Ladies in General
Farewell and adieu, you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston And never the more will we see you again… I am now officia...
Once the wings go on, they never come off, whether they can be seen, or not. It fuses to the soul through adversity, fear and adrenaline and no one who has ever worn them with pride, integrity an...
Things I Recognize in General
I spent an hour on the phone with Gary last night. He was surprisingly upbeat considering his dad just died. We made plans for breakfast with the boys this morning. I’ve been around too long to...
Save Us All in General
Decade End Observations. I started the decade in love. I end it pretty sure it is going to take divine intervention for it to ever happen again. Gary’s Dad died yesterday and nothing in the way...
Dreams: Coitis Interuptus in General
I really hate those dreams where everything is going really good, sex is amazing and… I have to go take a leak. And try as I may, try as I might I can’t get the dream back. That really sucks, be...
