Looking back — is evidence enough — the self is an illusion
Hard not to love what our neighbors get up to in their culdesacs
My friend — the magus Jon Sellers — sent me an e-mail soon before he died — saying he’ll see me in ‘23 — to say it makes me a little nervous — is true — he also had a problem with pigeons — he would have appreciated this as it grossed him out
Our regular meetings on the concrete stoop — amid the parasitic English Ivy — below the cold stone garden where once a sacred tobacco tree grew —behind my room — seems like a lifetime ago — someone else’s lifetime
Three out of five of the ‘regulars’ are no longer here
My daughter — who turned Twentyone today — says there’s a SWAT team outside her room at college — what kind of place is this?
What we’ve come to accept as ‘normal’ defies past expectations
Send her kind thoughts — for her birthday — for a world where SWAT teams run rampant — where it seems necessary to let them
Happy Birthday to T. 21 is a great age. I shall be 60 on Sunday, which is not a bad age either, and no SWAT team...that I'm aware of.
Pigeons get a bad press: they're smart, resourceful, and when it comes to begging food from humans are far more polite, and stoical, than seagulls. (Very bold and rather aggressive, especially if there is junk food in the 'hood. But not so fearsome as the ones in Amity Bay.)
Britain is a mad place, not least because awards/medals for bravery are given to animals. About 50 or so of these have been awarded and about two dozen were to pigeons. The mostest.
Happy Birthday to T. 21 is a great age. I shall be 60 on Sunday, which is not a bad age either, and no SWAT team...that I'm aware of.
Pigeons get a bad press: they're smart, resourceful, and when it comes to begging food from humans are far more polite, and stoical, than seagulls. (Very bold and rather aggressive, especially if there is junk food in the 'hood. But not so fearsome as the ones in Amity Bay.)
Britain is a mad place, not least because awards/medals for bravery are given to animals. About 50 or so of these have been awarded and about two dozen were to pigeons. The mostest.
21? How can that be? So quick!