Sometimes I look at this blog and think, It can’t possibly have been that many weeks since the last post!
Warped sense of time aside, there should be something going up here within the next few days.
So she writes…
Poetic Interlude: Anticipation
Anticipation
Pomegranate ripening
High and rosy out the window
Promising the coming Fall
Filed under Wordplay
Self-Awareness, Selfishness, and (No) Shame: Finding a Place in Society
On September 9, NPR’s “All Things Considered” ran a story about a woman who wanted to be a nurse and the challenges she was facing to become one. The story ended with the host saying that this woman was “determined to make a career out of helping people.” This triggered a realization that I am determined not to be ashamed of:
I don’t want to make a career out of helping people.
Filed under Contemporary
Poetic Interlude: On Guilt
Guilt, whatever
its pigmentation
or lack thereof
Cannot heal wounds
of any depth
Does not pay bills
accumulating
Contemporary Contempt 