Entries from May 2009

May 21, 2009

glories

“Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. [...]

May 21, 2009

article!

published three months after I wrote it! Weird timing for this one (finally) but exciting nonetheless.
Everyone is Baffled by the Six-Foot-Tall Gringa in Neon Green Running Shorts

May 9, 2009

“life is the dancer; you are the dance”

-   Eckhart Tolle
Standing on top of a fifty meter tall Mayan pyramid; late at night; wind lifting away heavy tropical air; a full moon; it’s hard not to believe that the world moves you, that the world moves, in exactly the way it should.
I spent my first full day in colorful Antigua intent on inquiring [...]