Legible

I’ve been thinking and know what?  It doesn’t help much. I trust more in the triggers that

fall nascent when I ask the questions I need to know and as long as I am open to the answers in fine print my mind will stay legible.

The GG

Those summer visits just after the decade of the 60’s began was more about being smothered with attention which I so felt I lacked at home than anything else. I was the eldest and only boy and by that time 3 of my 4 sisters were alive and this was my way to as it were get away from it all.  And the Woodside-Greenpoint sojourns were just what the doctor ordered.

 Sometimes my father would drop me off in Queens or as he felt I could manage it he let me take the LIRR to Woodside station and trek the 5 blocks to Grandma’s house. I loved the independence of that ride and when it came to traveling to Greenpoint later in the week I took the GG subway from 65th Street to Nassau Avenue in Brooklyn on a 15 cent token ride. When I would emerge from that hole in the ground and walked but one block to turn the corner on Manhattan Avenue I would love the smell of the subway below that rushed my olfactory nerve up through the black iron gratings. I could never figure out what was so pleasant about it but it was one of the biggest anchors that reminded me heaven was just a few steps away.  

Light and Dark

The difference between light and dark is seeing and unseeing. Might sound rather obvious but I think that what we see in the dark is often more real than what we see in the light because the mind plays tricks on us when our eyes are open but when they’re closed we’re guided by instinct rather than emotion.  

It's the Presentation

Some people are blessed with many gifts of the mind and spirit but don’t quite know how to wrap the presents.   

Vantage Point

The perfect vantage point often leaves me seeing what I don’t want to see but it’s usually what I need to. 

Heart on My Sleeve

I wear my heart on my sleeve that’s why I always like to wear sweaters.