Once, men spoke of an aether, a sublime Platonic medium for incandescent, or even metaphysical, transmission. Of a grand Returning of what had been lost. I rely on string and a rudimentary pulley system. #HowIGotMyGrooveBack
Another transcendent sunrise reverie, golden harbinger of fortitude and renewal, interrupted suddenly by waterfowl. My outlook, and my suit, will never be the same. #LostFaith#SaturdayMorning#HonkedOff
Unexpected feedback today. Constructive, doubtless well intentioned, yet oddly off-putting. Do I merely overreact? Do I catastrophize in the face of negligible outliers? Are the deli meats I resemble a common topic of public discourse? #NotOliveLoaf#OddThingsToSayInALockerRoom
The dawn brings grey familiarity but also new resolve, the cold clarity of hindsight hard-won, the increasingly insistent profanity of competitive street mongers. #loud#SaturdayMorning#MongSomewhereElse
“Thank you for your recent submission. Unfortunately, we presently have no plans of publishing an epistolary haiku adaptation of Leviticus, but we admire your creativity and encourage you to keep writing.” #4thTimesTheCharm#ShareYourRejections#KindergartenWasDisappointing
The spool again. Huge, encircled with the stoutest of twines, dogging my steps and taunting with the merest semblance of explicability, a mocking pretense of purpose. Why, I ask in silent consternation; in God’s name, why? #Why#ThingsThatConfuseMe#SomeEnormousPastryBoxPerhaps
A setback. An indispensable piece of luggage (my father’s own portmanteau), left by mischance on a public conveyance. Where is it now? What has it undertaken in my absence? #TravelTuesday
I, fearful at present, here. My trousers, seemingly animated, yonder. The space between, never so charged nor so contracted. #pareidolia#jeopardy#sleepeludesme
Displays of human solidarity never fail to move me. Today, the people in the buffet line, strangers joined by contingency and shared purpose, cornering the elderly woman monopolizing the lobster tray, moved me in a different way. #Shellfishness#ForTheAlliance#MorePotatoesForMe
Do we not all daily weather a gnawing emptiness, a psychic void? Is it not human to buttress our selfhood, vainly, with charms of reassurance? Will I not seek yet another air plant? #EasyToCareFor#ExpensiveThough#HowIdSpendManafortMoney
You impugn, indeed dare sully, a venerable display of civic pride, and for what? Childish wordplay? Crass commercialism? My outrage is unbounded! I demand contrition, and a slice.
Today is #NationalNewJerseyDay and we'd like to participate, but we can't figure out whose new jersey to buy... taking suggestions from @Mariners fans. Cruz? Diaz?
Two years ago today, in a dimly lit room and a moment of enthusiastic misjudgment, I attempted to take my own photograph in a mirror and nearly blinded myself. #FlashbackFriday
Salutations and annunciations! I give you #NationalNewJerseyDay! Coincidentally, it is also World United States Day and North American My Block In Particular Day. #daysandconfused