: About Me

Writing putting in words just a substitute for blowing notes on a sax spontaneously and purely.

Jotting it down takes time

Every breath I take is a miracle

If you want to know what it is like to feel alive, shoot some class five rapids in the freezing rain!

The world is a fascinating place for the living.

Be reverent respectful resounding remindful - always. 

My passion is ...

Improvising

I know too much about ...

Personal struggles

My parents always told me ...

Be safe

My childhood ambition ...

To be a Rock Star!

My favorite memory ...

Sitting in the middle of the masses at the original Woodstock Music Festival (1969)

Why I write ...

Because it is cathartic and redemptive

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am reading the Paris Review and Book of the Dead

My first job ...

Paper Route

My best moment ...

Meditating on the ocean

My inspiration ...

My family

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Dogs

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Maya just ten years old  perfect markings blue merle shetland sheepdog eyes that sparkled  and looked right through you one day so full of life the next ... gone over Easter weekend coughing wheezing we took her to the vet x-rays showed lung cancer she wouldn't last long the night after Good Friday she couldn't sleep she paced the hallway too weak to climb the stairs (she used to bound up those stairs!) when her legs gave out we laid her on a small fleece mattress her favorite bed and we watched watched while unable to do anything watched her take her last breaths we told her we ...

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