The other day I was looking at a pile of work. It was stacked high in front of me, almost to a level that I was unable to see beyond it. And with each piece I removed, another two were being added. Sometimes I was able to peel off far more of the pile than … Continue reading Trimming
Tag: life
Resolve
There’s 23 days until the new year. That’s 3 weeks until the rush of the population to create a list of things that they want to change. It’s 3 weeks until everyone will spend a few hours trying to show to everyone else (or most notably: themselves) that they are serious for once, that this … Continue reading Resolve
Values
Black Friday has come and gone once again and like last year, I avoided it. At least the commercial part of it, the insane sales, the advertised pressure to buy buy buy. Not that I don’t enjoy shopping on occasion, and not that I don’t wish to purchase gifts for friends and family alike at … Continue reading Values
Soap – a short story
Soapby Jeremy C Kester Each dish moved from the sink over to the drainer. It was a slow, methodical process, but one by one, they each made it over to their mediary destination. A destination they would hold for the short while of drying before being taken to their place in the storage cabinets. One … Continue reading Soap – a short story
Defied
Desert sprawl over heart,I taste the hot desert sun,Laughing down at me,To dry my mouth of words defied.As I refuse to know life’s unfairness.So it asks me why I must object,Skin burning and drying out of life,And I can but stand to answer.If for myself I had a voice to bear.But though I waiver in … Continue reading Defied
