Alycia was our bartender on Beale St. She was a talented mosaic artist who started tending bar so she could have a more stable life. She sometimes drinks too much w/ her husband. She is kind.
This leaf is from Long Island Bahamas.
They sway write like everyone you know is dead. Which I will gladly do… if I’m sure they will never read it. Angie wants all of my penned words to be happy and upbeat, but in my heart, I know they are darker. So, how do yo write truth, but also keep those closest to you happy. “I don’t care” are the words, but after 30 years, I know she cares. And, how do I liberate a mind that is so guarded? And how did it get so inhibited? Is it cultural, circumstance? Or did an event or events close certain doors?
The music here is too loud. I know, this is about as authentic as Disney World, but it’s dirty and dangerous enough to feel authentic. The problem is that real history is usually pretty boring while it is happening… then later we try to recapture it. There are moments in my own history that one live in my mind. I cannot recapture or even share those but they are as important in making me as any in history.
Don’t wanna be like other people are Don’t wanna own a key, don’t wanna wash my car.
11/10/22 Hot Springs AR State Campground. It si cold this morning (55/13). The birds wake me at 5a. It is a pleasant way to come into the world. I get up while Angie sleeps on. It’s not breathtakingly beautiful but it’s pretty. I wonder Why I think that? Am I comparing it to PCH? Or Blue Ridge Parkway? That isn’t fair to this place. Each locale has it’s own measure of power and majesty.
A red leaf falls
Something rustles
In the undergrowth
A wind waves in the tree tops
My red shoes crunch and climb
Chic-a-dee skips on branch ahead. They raid only goes up
But I keep climbing
Nothing to escape from
Nothing to escape to
But the hope of majesty
Keeps me moving
The Thrill of New
The Rush of senses
When new synapses are formed.
This gets more and more
Important as a man’s beard grows
Grey.
The world is vast.
Never stop.