Death

December 17, 2015

The Most Simple Existence

Yes, I am thinking about death tonight. Is there any other subject, really? Continue reading

May 11, 2014

There was a birder at the park this morning. I spotted him as Lucy and I rounded the path. He was walking a bike. He occasionally stopped and lifted his binoculars and peered into a tree. He was wearing bike shorts and a helmet and was sporting large rubber band-like straps below his kneecaps. “Red tail?” Continue reading

Books, Death, Life, Literature, The Examined Life

Dad, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Montaigne, Spirituality, Thoreau

May 6, 2014

Don Bruns

My father, about whom I have written extensively here, died last week. He was 92. He died in his bed peacefully. No machines, no tubes, no wires. I was with him and was able to tell him one last time that I was proud of him and that I loved him. He went out like Continue reading

Death, Family, Life, Memoir

Dad, death, Family, Memoir

February 1, 2014

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros*

It is late in the evening and I am especially missing my youth. This is probably why I don’t stay up late. Why subject yourself to such a thing? It isn’t so much missing the days of youth as it is creeping closer to the remove of those day altogether, the permanent remove of everything, Continue reading

Creativity, Death, Happiness, Life, The Examined Life

Edward Share and the Magnetic Zeros, Lewis Thomas, Michael Dingle, music

May 3, 2013