Essential Sustenance for Contemporary Aliveness
Why is the site icon a photo of a sunset even though there has never been a photo taken that does a sunset justice? Because I felt alive taking that photo. That's what this blog is about. Also, ignore the 'food' in the url. The sustenance I'm talking about has little to do with food and a lot to do with the things that feed our souls. The url was free.
He has this boyish laughter.
It bursts out when something surprises him.
He doesn’t use it often.
That first time I heard it
I realized I was wrong about thinking
he was hiding something from me.
I realized he hadn’t told me his secrets
because he was still a blank slate.
I was in no position to clean
erase
or accept a mess.
That after all this time
he remained
ready to be written on.
Essential Sustenance for Contemporary Aliveness 