Category: Barkings
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Holidays
The *expletive* holiday season! No doubt we’ll see stories of mayhem, never mind the background horrors of war, climate change, and things not yet known. But I’d like to share something that happened to me this week while shopping. I had gone into Walmart to just pick up a few things. However, I found, as…
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No More Seniors
There is one word I hate more than any other these days: senior. The hating has grown phenomenally in the last few months. I lost a shitload of weight (100 pounds) and could see my face as it was always before the weight. That is, how it was except for one thing. I was older.…
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Primer
Tarot cards are fascinating. They are colorful little signs of our hopes and fears. I have been reading them for fun since I was a teen and for some profit recently. I have several decks of cards. Each uses their own iconography to display the situations and emotions we humans populate. You might call them…
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Crush
I have an old friend who has a site full of pictures and text about Greater Boston. He and his husband go out to places and take photos. I mean physical photos as my friend, JR, likes to use film. Most of the time these pictures are of him at some spots in the urban…
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Alone
I have always wanted a love that never comes near me. I will fall for images, for music, for a voice that sounds like it could whisper a swell into my ear and break against my emotional sea wall; the water of thought, of feelings will run into the land that sits too dry and…
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Is
There were random letters at the bottom of my last post. You could say my fingers just tapped the wrong keys. You could say I forgot to totally delete a long and tedious passage about men being asses. You could say a lot. The mysterious letters are “is”. This is an amazing short English word…
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Lumberjack
There is a lumberjack in my head. He is cutting down the forest, then building his own home, killing a deer or two for dinner for his woman and child, and then running off to the local lumberjack beer with his flannel backed buddies. He is loud and proud of his heterosexual demeanor. His feelings…
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Father Tom
When I was younger, I was the go-to guy for advice. I listened and gave out some pretty damn good advice, at least for a teenager and very young adult. As an ersatz agony aunt I heard so much angst, sturm and drang, and pathos. Often, the pathos went bathos and I secretly laughed and…
One More Bark in the Night 