Tag Archives: wind-up bird

Dear Someone,
You are so alive it is like a beacon. Every­one within a 5 mile radius is attrac­ted to how brightly you shine. Even the card­board people, they can­not help but be drawn to tex­ture, depth, dimen­sions, per­spect­ive, flesh, warmth. How could one not feel strongly about a light in dark­ness? One must either be drawn, com­pelled, to its […]

Dear All,
Once, there was the idea of the wan­der­ing poet-philosopher. Someone truly free– without pos­ses­sions and com­mite­ments to tie her down, with her only pos­ses­sions on her back. For some time I lived that life, and it was the hap­pi­est I had been in a long time.
But some­how there were things left to achieve on the usual plane […]

Dear All,
I have heard that bird that makes a sound like a long creak, unseen. Wind­ing up the spring of our exist­ence. Am I the only one? Surely you have all heard it too…
Yours,
Deutschy.

Dear All,
Some­times you have strong feel­ings. Intu­itions. And some­times they take you places you never ima­gined. They make you a bet­ter and more ter­rible per­son than you knew you were. They take you to the land of dead and back. They make you live without regrets, in ways that when look­ing back are fairly long-sighted.
Some­times the […]