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On Disposable Friends

On Disposable Friends

In the last decade and a half, some friends stormed out of my life in a rage and others just dumped me like a teenager dumps last week's flame. Others still have intentionally faded away. Some of them I miss, but others I do not. I'm sure those once and faded friends feel the same way. But why?

The Wound

Selecting a few images from a very bad year takes you back into that time. Because you fear opening the wound, you work at some remove from what the images return to you. Until you come to one that takes you back and you find yourself there, in that time, in those weeks and months after 'The Day.'

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Contrails

The Wreck and the Raft by John Fowles

The Wreck and the Raft by John Fowles

The Wind in the Heights

The Wind in the Heights

Of a Fire in a Field and a Hole in the Sky

Of a Fire in a Field and a Hole in the Sky

Then, from somewhere in the pile or the pit, a group of men would emerge carrying a stretcher covered with an American flag and holding, if they were fortunate, a body.

What I Saw: Notes Made on September 11, 2001 from Brooklyn Heights

What I Saw: Notes Made on September 11, 2001 from Brooklyn Heights

What follows is a slightly edited transcript of what I saw and how I felt on the 11th of September, 2001 from Brooklyn Heights in New York City. On that day I was posting to a West Coast Computer Conferencing system known as The Well.

On September 10, 2001: "Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after. It's a reckoning."

On September 10, 2001: "Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after. It's a reckoning."

Now over a decade has passed, "a low dishonest decade," since the day after September 10, and the thing that looked like a man, the monster that set the events of the 11th in motion, has been expunged from the Book of Life. Too easily and too quickly for my tastes.