some of my favorites

title: wolves (act I and II) - artist: bon iver I've made my fair share of first date faux pas. The most frequently recurring one has been mushing over some adorable wee person. See, dates happen out in public. With people. Including wee people. Some of those wee people are utterly ador...

In response to: Care to share what gave you happiness last weekend? I was headed into a restaurant that had two sets of entry doors, creating a small lobby with benches along the sides to accommodate people enduring the weekend rush and waiting for a table. I'd come through the first set of doors...

title: pretty wings - artist: maxwell Excerpts from the July 4th weekend, not in sequential order: Sunday: Some of you may remember Brad. On a previous trip to the pool, I saw him and his grandmother and heard the familiar "Hey guys!" only it was directed at the kids in the pool this ti...

title: florida - artist: patty griffin It is spring. It is gorgeous. And I am loving it! In the last couple of days, the blooms have taken to blooming and wee leaves have taken to unfurling. And there are few things that are quite so splendid. But one of them is Brad. Brad is pretty fri...

Life is full of watershed moments. People come and go. They all leave a mark, but some will go so far as to rock and reshape your world. Mine is decidedly better because your fingerprints are all over it. Change is inevitable. Guaranteed, even. At this moment, I can't say what lies ahead this yea...

title: tonight, tonight - artist: smashing pumpkins Several of you requested more information/details/insight on the whole "Spiderman" thing [woman, you are oh so awesome!]. And I was subsequently stingy with them, I admit. But that's mostly because there's only a night's worth of them,...

title: indestructible - artist: matisyahu It's at least a little more, if not quite the more you were seeking. For some reason, this is one of the moments that seems to sum up a lot of that night for me: I was seated next to the only person in the mix that I knew, bouncing…

title: happy (live) - artist: chris nathan rebirth can happen beneath a street light on a brick-paved sidewalk in early september surrounded by clouds of flavored tobacco, a trickle of passers-by, languidly drained cups of coffee and strangers becoming less unknown. don't miss it. Plenty of peopl...

"To really let go of the pain, you have to give up the hope that the past could have been different. So move forward with the strength you've been given to live an undefeated life."

title: two by two - artist: dave matthews band   all for love, we become larger than lifesize, wondersome great in the eyes of someone lifesize | a fine frenzy driving down the recently opened roadways lashing this semi-rural landscape like the arteries of a large metropolis, contemplating r...