... in the exact same way a perfume is a longing, fake fire is another.

... artist, and now a young oak tree. I was devouring a cake cup of raspberries and pistachio cream, sitting on the soft grass, unseeing...

[These notes date back to 2011; since then, so much happened to me involving birds and dragonflies that I now see the incidents below as...

(Another old piece tackling another timeless problem--the conflicted, passive-aggressive, supremely cynical mother of many problems.)...