
a little bird sits
on a wire wondering where
it shall fly to next
"A collection of my thoughts, feelings, and emotions, to the world around me"

Caught the bus for my afternoon classes only to have them cancelled. What now? Oh, I know. Off to the university library I go. Where I spent almost all of my free time while on campus. It was a five-minute walk from my political science class and I used every second of it to get there. Soaking up the semester sun and atmosphere of an ordinary Wednesday late 1990’s.
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A chronic smoker, that white-haired man who never stopped talking, and the backwash guy. Three reg barflies and a keep. Lies told, secrets shared, and all I heard was “Ah, one more for the road”. Swiftly, I would grab a frosty beer glass from a humming cooler, then reach for the silver tap. Froth to pour, the perfect head, and ding went the register. Sale…total….enter…$2.25.
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Hanging out on a merry-go-round in the heart of a summer was very teenage…

Riding the bus on a rainy Friday night…

That one spot along the way home where you ran as fast as you could every single time because of that story…

smell of evergreen
in a November forest
can take you back home

I realized on a walk today that if you stare at fallen leaves long enough they come alive again. – Ash