Themes
Counting Sheep
Published June 9th, 2023
"Days seem sometimes as if they'll never end
Sun digs its heels to taunt you
But after sunlit days, one thing stays the same
Rises the moon"
Moth to a Flame
Published January 8th, 2023
"Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad."
"Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear."
Don't Shoot the Messenger
Published June 14th, 2022
"It's difficult isn't it? The dance we do,
Draw among the stars a version of you,
and realize that you are who you choose to be.
A path is only made by walking repeatedly"
Where the Wild Things Were
Originally Published May 14th, 2020.
Some Re-edited December 22nd, 2023.
"We were gonna make a whole world like this. Now, everyone used to come here, but you know... you know what it feels like when all your teeth are falling out really slowly and you don't realize and then you notice that, well, they're really far apart. And then one day... you don't have any teeth anymore"
Cat Got Your Tongue?
Published November 24th, 2021
"Lives don't matter much when you have 9."
Dark Willow
Published February 8th, 2021
"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
Fish in a Birdcage
Published November 24th,2023
"If you judge a fish by its ability to fly, it will find a home in a birdcage."
Jiminy Cricket
Originally Published June 29th, 2021.
Some Re-edited March 29th, 2023.
"On nights like these, among the daunting and hallow wood, a lullaby from tiny musicians can be heard. No matter if under rock or stone, or even in the stomach of a bird! Their melancholy song slips sweetly between the leaves and leads the mind to wonder what vessel they tune. Courage it takes to join in their song, to not lead, but be led marching towards the moon. Lucky are some who come across these faeries, taken to dance and sing amongst the stars. They'll be here tomorrow singing their sorrow, just remember the curtains close at dawn."
The Flight of Icarus
Originally Published March 1st, 2021.
Some Re-edited March 29th, 2023.
"Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light."
Sunken Lover
Originally Published February 7th, 2020.
Some Re-edited December 22nd, 2023.
"Even today, widow’s walks can inspire a narrative of a woman attired in a long crinoline dress, pacing for hours with her eyes and emotions reaching out to sea. It is easy to imagine that these 18th and early 19th century structures could have been designed to provide women with a dignified refuge where they could pine after their absent husbands and mourn their deaths at sea."
The Pilot
Published February 19th, 2020
"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
Partly Cloudy
Published September 5th, 2021
"Sit back, relax, and enjoy."
Just the Way Things Go
Published August 3rd, 2022
"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."
Piety
Published January 20th, 2020
"God has no religion."
Jack of the Lanterns
Published October 18th, 2021
"Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn’t want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form.
Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree’s bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.
Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way."
Château sur Mer (Haunted Mansion)
Published November 4th, 2019
"[...] a belief in spirits seems to have been common to all the nations of the ancient world who have left us any record of themselves. Ghosts began to walk early, and are walking still [...]"
The Scarecrow
Originally Published November 24th, 2019.
Some Re-edited January 7th, 2024.
"a humanoid figure dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds such as crows or sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops. [...] effectiveness lessens as animals become familiar with the structures"
Soul Searching
Published June 7th, 2020
"The lawn Is pressed by unseen feet,
and ghosts return
Gently at twilight, gently go at dawn,
The sad intangible who grieve and yearn...."
Styx
Published March 8th, 2020
"... the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years, until they were allowed to cross the river."
Unnamed Puppets
Published May 5th, 2021
"You want to die? Then throw yourself into the sea and you’ll see yourself fighting to survive. You do not want to kill yourself, rather you want to kill something inside of you"
Into the Unknown
Published October 26th, 2020
"Sometimes I feel like a boat,
On a winding river,
Twisting towards an endless black sea,
Further and further,
From where I want to be,
Who! I want to be."
We Call Him ... !?
Published September 5th, 2020
"Nature has a way sometimes of reminding man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up the terrible offsprings of our pride and carelessness, to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now Godzilla, that strangely... innocent and tragic monster has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us, remain..."
Urban Jungle
Published September 6th, 2020
"When we are finally surrounded by jungles of concrete, man will start building forests."
Snow Day (The Blizzard of 22')
Published January 29th, 2022
"A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky—unbidden—and seems like a thing of wonder."
Sakuratani Ramen & Izakaya
Published March 29th, 2021
"Although the skills aren’t hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant."