Immune System Woe

My naturopath gave me a "bug killing" herbal formula to boost my immune system, but it doesn't work. After I squirt that liquid formula around the kitchen floor with the stupid eyedropper dispenser, the roaches just keep coming back bigger, stronger, and faster.

Ode

I was going to write a poem
about the disabling weight of inertia
pressing down the desire of well intentions
but did'nt.

Who Rides Whom

The perfect jaundiced watcher
down under the fray observes
the long cultural turn
through the easy squash and burn.

Deer in the Headlights

"YOU AMERICAN?" the MC asked me in front of a room full of celebrating Christmas diners. I stood there like a deer in the headlights waiting for the next move. Immersed in Deaf culture for the first time, I vaguely understood the question.

My first semester ASL instructor scurried up to the front to save me. They chatted. There was a signed explanation to the audience, then applause as my mind played catch-up in the event swirling around me. I was a beginner, just learning sign language, here to support the community. Or something like that.

I made my way back to my seat as my dinner partner smiled -- acknowledging my return to more familiar ground. I looked in the envelope with the door prize I had been given and glanced quickly at the pizza coupon inside. "Oh, it's Canadian", I thought to myself, still pondering the earlier query about my cultural affiliation.

Now Hear This!

An old friend invites me for coffee and offers a buffet of half-finished sentences, sound bytes on a roll, and transitions to somewhere. There is a slight pause as he begins the one story I manage to hear well enough to piece together. Regan tells me that  conversations at home are often difficult, so he recently encouraged his wife to schedule herself a hearing test. The test came back normal, he says. He just mumbles.

Rule #4

My house, my rules.

Rule #3

There are no rules.

Double ( - Cross - ) Talk

I wonder
                  why
                           we feed ourselves lines --

                                                              reason
                                                                  crossing
                                                                        over
                                                                           desire
        
                                                                                       j  u s t  
                                                                                              i f y i n g

                                                                                                          the 
                                                                                                              double-cross.

Romancing the Wild

Home is where we remember the call back to wild being through the winds of time.

  ~~ Homage à trois

Reverse Mantra

"I am sick, always already sick."

  ~~ Mark Taylor

Telling is Not Teaching

Why do so many self-taught "educators" think that teaching means telling with autocratic posturing?

Sharing a Special Moment

I make espressos on our new home machine.
Partner walks around the corner into the washroom for a quick visit,
then walks out a few minutes later and announces, 
  "That smells really good, doesn't it?"

I laugh out loud. Too much information.

Collective Agreement

Article #
 
   I.  Do Process

   II. Just 'cuz

   III. Just us.
 

Loose Change

Perhaps we'll find

the things we 

lo(o)se

in the liminal 

(s)

p

a

c

e

(s)

in-between.

Cognitive Stress

"Too many things
in too many places
across too many contexts"

Been there, do that, daily.

Bridge Crossing Now/here

"One may cross the bridge without coming back again."

-- Chan-fai Cheung (096)

K/nowhere I return for naught.

"One may cross the bridge . . . "

K/Now here.

I live on.

Bible Study

Who says, "God says"?

Borne Again Horizons

"All image values are borne by a context."

-- Karl Bühler. Theory of Language.


I have been pondering new horizons of expectation. Bühler and Ijsseling help to describe, instigate, and re-fuel the process.

  Who is speaking? In what context? 
  Who benefits? 
  Who decides?

You and ME

A new film and a new research center give a glimmer of hope to those living with a nightmare disease. Between you and me, can we share this space together?

What about Me?

Who in Deed

"Who is speaking whenever something is said?
Who is writing whenever something is written."

-- Samuel Ijsseling