Author: Mike


  • Commentary on Greenback Boogie

    Commentary on Greenback Boogie Note: There is a television show that ran for 9 seasons called “Suits”. It is an American lawyer drama series in which a college dropout with a photographic memory accidentally ends up in the office of a sharp and prestigious attorney and convinces him to give him a job.  The show… Continue reading

  • I Will

    I will  I will carry you down this path, and through this night 21 days long. I will never tire and constantly be the strength when you need a little more to see the morning come. I will sit on the floor to watch every moment, knowing that I am here and there is nothing… Continue reading

  • Three Years Later

    Three years later  In the season of eternal status, where spring would always give way to summer in the most predictable ways, as it was in the 1920s, the 40s, the 60s, and here today in 78, it did not seem to change. I got off the bus that came down the hill every day,… Continue reading

  • Simple Complexities of Perspective

    Simple complexities of perspective As I sit here with the Monday morning coffee I know there are many choices ahead this week. How deep will you invest every moment? How richly can you live? Being here now is a strange journey into surrealism. I know that when I put my ear to the track leading… Continue reading

  • Don’t fall asleep

    Don’t fall asleep  There is a waste that I always lament. It is a cycle in which I cannot break free. It is there just as the seasons of the year are, and yet, it eludes me, taunting and mocking. Tied to my chair I watch the light rise out of the east sky and… Continue reading

  • An unforeseen honor

     It was cold and dark in the dawn of days that I did not know would go on. I knew that summer days would come again, and these were new because until just weeks earlier, we were told that they would not. We were told that the world as we knew it, was over. Photo… Continue reading

  • Things learned in a crash landing

     Is it a slow learning?  Is it worse?  Are you futile?  Was failure already achieved?  Do you learn? Where are you? Are you standing on the threshold as the sun rises or sets? Who are you? Why are there more pieces after cleanup time? Why are you asking questions? … But I don’t have the… Continue reading

  • The futile fight

    When sadness consumed me, I could never rise above it. It was dark and I was lost and ironically, angry. It is so easy to misdirect my own frustration and assign it to others who will never know that they hold it. For years then, I have had exhaustive arguments with them, and they never… Continue reading

  • The Hunter awaits

     Of the hunter: It has been three days since I saw him. The gleam of the barrel of the rifle, the rustle of the ground debris, because of the cover and concealment I have found. Very few know what true safety can be like, and yet here I am.  Of the prey: The ground crumbles… Continue reading

  • Stuck

     How is it that some parents can just demand their 18 year old high school graduate move out? How is it that some can send them to college and shift so easily into the next phase of their lives? For the last 21 years, everything was my children, and actually it still is. We crossed… Continue reading