March 11th.
I thought we decided, I tell myself—all of my selves: the one who likes lazy days of lounging in the hammock made of time, the self who stares at a wall too long after a dream doesn’t quite add up, the self who questions every single day: do we choose to become this thing, this “person”, who writes?—-that today we were going to just enjoy a very still Sunday without words. A drive to Philly was in order to see my best friend, am(Erica). But she will understand, I told myself, like all friends who have been a close part of my life the last two decades, if I changed my mind last ... read more »
Tagged life, questions, story
February 26, 2011
Still Sundays.
There is fair weather, great weather, and then weather I simply categorize as Wrath of the Universe.
New York City’s weather yesterday was some Wrath of the Universe.
The weather in New York City feels like a curse from the Universe right now. Did winter come late this year?
I know my mother is right and I am not supposed to take it personally. It is just winter. It doesn’t have a personal vendetta against me. It will pass like all the years before. But I do take it personally. In my vocabulary the word cold doesn’t suffice…only wrath of the universe makes sense. I know there are ... read more »
Tagged art, life, questions, relating, religion, social media, viktor frankl
February 19, 2012.
I ate a lot of Internet this weekend. I justified it because I ate healthy and kosher. The meat of the articles was halal. Fresh sources, great nutritional articles, lots of juice for thought. And I usually don’t eat meat: I had not browsed through any of my feeds or online journals in over a week. As is often with most things that happen to me, I had tapped in to the momentum exactly at the right time.
The right place, the right time, the wrong me.
I gathered that social media is going through some mid-life crisis. I thought Internet was only a baby. Don’t you first have to grow up, live ... read more »
Tagged bernard shaw, choices, life, nyc, questions, relating, seekfindseek, social media
February 5th, 2012.
The super bowl of social media and creativity.
I woke up thinking about Wednesday this morning. As if Wednesday was a person I knew.
This last Wednesday was a chaotic morning and no amount of breathing was going to lift me out of the mushroom of frenzy.
Usually calm and steady, on Wednesday morning I was agitated and hyper sensitive to noise. I always try to see what is the longest amount of time I can go without plugging into music with my headphones. This time even music didn’t help. People rushing to some grand nowhere. I joined them to head to one of the most dilapidated parts of New York City. ... read more »
Tagged art, authors, bell hooks, books, life, process of writing, questions, relating, social media, twitter
January 22nd 2012.
Biko. Coltrane. My father. Coleridge. Marquez.
Writing when you are under the weather is like talking in your sleep. Nothing makes sense; it all makes sense.
It is a Steve Biko kind of Sunday: “I write what I like.”
New York City is under the weather too. It snowed yesterday.
I read a post by a talented photographer in Finland, Annika Ruohonen, this morning titled “January in Finland.” So this is Finland in January I said aloud without realizing. Maybe my heavy head thought I was using “inside” voices when I was not. I tried leaving a short comment but due to computer glitches, password itches, the comment was lost ... read more »
Tagged authors, marquez, process of writing, questions, relating, words
