August 2009
So whatever you do, don't be bored.
Man on the Train: Hey, are you a dreamer? Wiley: Yeah. Man on the Train: I haven’t seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It’s not dead it’s just that it’s been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well,...
Kindred spirits
I saw a couple in downtown Berkeley eating twin wafer cones of vanilla ice cream and the girl gave the boy a look that could only belong to the beloved; her eyes sang for him. I watched them walk away still staring at each other, their bodies drawn together by their matching gaits. My eyes trailed after the tails of their scarves and the synchronized scuffing of their shoes. And then I saw...
