Suffering is our relationship to pain. It’s meaning making. We can choose to relate to the pain with purpose, even find enjoyment in it, or let it become misery. Continue reading We Seek Suffering (Suffering is Optional)
“Even sweetness can scratch the throat, grandma said, so stir the sugar well.” – Ocean Vuong in “Notebook Fragments”
The thing is, I don’t like sugar in my coffee. But, I was taught recently that a spoonful of sugar in the pot — if you do it Turkish style — makes the final product creamier, frothier, tastier. I have to admit, he’s right.
2018 had its sweet moments, but I didn’t always stir well. Continue reading The Sweet and Salty of 2018: Reflecting on a Year of Love and Travel
Bucking bull chained.His dangling septum ring clangs,golden or iron-wrought,winged or Atlassian,8 seconds of madness thenunrecognizable sideways glances and…You, an unbroken linkcan trace your line inpuddle jumpers, layovers andtrans-Atlantic migrations, thatuprooting of plugs planted in new land,tilled before and after by handsthat clasped your own. Locked,intertwined, in bedaboard the Lusitania that lifesank, but you are firm.Grounded, … Continue reading Well, We Found Ourselves Here (Now What?)
Aaron Gerry 