You tell me I must be careful avoid the strawberries they are grown in sewage water, you warn, they cannot be rinsed clean.
Archive for the ‘Fear’ Category
The taste of fear
Posted in Fear, Travel on January 21, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
Knowing it’s the End
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Existential, Fear, Hebrew School, Mortality, The Shoah on February 2, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
On January 13, 2018, an employee of the Hawaiian Emergency Management Agency issued a ballistic missile alert. Thirty eight minutes later, a second message was sent, describing it as a “false alarm.” Here’s a modern day math problem: After launch, a missile travels 4600 miles. At an average speed of 306.67 miles per hour, […]
Darkness Drops
Posted in Aging, Fear, impermanence, Protest, Time on February 26, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919)
Desert Bloom
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Falling in Love, Fear, Natural World, Romance, Writing on May 4, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Inches apart the right side of your right arm rubbed my left.