I’m awake – Page 8

Fears, Bears

(May 4th, 2012) I. The dark. Heights. No options. Too many options. Death. Turbulence. Growing old. No control. Manipulation. Ghosts. Many-legged creatures. The dark. Self-denial. Cancer. Disease. Failure. Driving. Crashing. Audiences. No control. Unconsciousness. Drowning. Falling. Infinity. II. There’s something about the dark that inspires in me a fear that is similar to my other moreContinue reading “Fears, Bears”

Poe and Halloween Thoughts

“I shall perish,” said he, “I must perish in this deplorable folly…I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect — in terror. In this unnerved, in this pitiable condition, I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason altogether, in some struggle with the grimContinue reading “Poe and Halloween Thoughts”

Visiting Roots

(Photos from old family albums dating back to 1980s) The first time I’d been back to Philly Chinatown in an entire year was on a Saturday about a month ago to have tea with a friend. In the car with my father bumping slowly down 10th Street to avoid sudden street-crossers, I peer outContinue reading “Visiting Roots”