On occasion, our eyes will show us things that capture the whole of our attention and render us immobile, fixated. It is possibly an instinctual response to seeing things that we have never seen before and that cannot be classified as belonging to a group of things with which we are already familiar. This latter…
I’m reading Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by neurologist Oliver Sacks. I found it at the library on a shelf of new releases. The new release designation means little more to the library’s information system circuitry than that the time between check out and due date is shorter. It needs to be returned…
Of the most distinguished homeless people in this country, one lives here in Fairbanks. I’ve written about him before, the character who speaks as though reading from a bible of endless passages written by a schizophrenic. And yet, in the midst of his signature style of oration submerged in an ancient grammar and spoken with…
As a pedestrian, I find it amusing how impatient drivers will sometimes use their vehicles as vessels for expressing their frustration at having to wait for me to cross the street. Mostly, this happens with drivers who are going to be making a right turn, as illustrated in the picture below, where the blue line…
Drifting on waves towards a solid shore of wakefulness in the early evening, after having let the sleep currents pull me out into the vast open a couple hours prior (read: a nap). Sometimes it is possible to postpone the inevitable waking, just by adjusting oneself into a new arrangement and subsequently sighing for the…
A collection of romantic sentiments, based on experiences I’ve had since elementary school, presented in the style of R.D. Laing’s Knots: The type of girl I want is not the type of girl who would want me. You only want me if I don’t want you. I only want you if you don’t want me….
One of the most lasting ways to rekindle enthusiasm for your work is to look round and take notice of all the jobs you would hate to have. How empowering to shift the tiresome paradigm of waking up dreading another day’s contribution to livelihood into the consideration of one’s work as collateral. Watch someone working…
Of all the dual-width alphanumeric combinations possible, my Anchorage-bound flight departed from the explosive gate C4. Still, I felt that if death by aircraft was to be my obligatory end, I would rather go out at once in a big bang than plummet to earth in a nauseous descent. It is important, especially on longer…
I’ll always be apprehensive about the nature of reality and the universe in general, but within this life my greatest fear is that I’m becoming a cold person due to lack of meaningful human contact. My meager warmth is sustained from one day to the next, as Oliver with his ration of porridge, by the…
The Federal government has made me an offer I can’t refuse, and that should only facetiously be interpreted as an allusion to The Godfather. It’s a step backward in the sense that I’ll be returning to Alaska. It’s a step forward in the sense that I’ll be in Anchorage, living in a place of my…
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