Wow, so sorry you lost your person you loved so much. I want to compliment you on bringing your own portraits and photo scene creations to your work on Medium.

Hope in doing nothing? — The teacher at Esalen played guitar for each of the body’s chakras. When he reached the heart, I had a realization, a heartfelt conviction that I didn’t need to bring intention into encounters with others, or even into my encounter with the world. I realized I could open up to…

My life’s all empty boxes and that’s OK — What if I’m not supposed to know what I’m doing: why I’m in a job, a relationship, or other role? What if a person was to just be in it, without knowing why? If I’m doing my real estate job, on the phone, on email, working with colleagues, I’m in…

How To Love Life Despite Anxiety Parking In a Crowded Business District — I helped my almost-16-year-old daughter practice driving on a commercial street. Am I the only one who thinks “Oh Lord, where will I park,” when approaching an address in a business district? This is stressful for me and a metaphor for other parts of life. I’m stressed parking, stressed waking…

An Audacious Dry Martini and Fried Chicken Salad Encouraged Me — The martini arrives as I sit at the bar next to random people I’m not looking at. It’s been some time since I’ve written or posted something new. A few sips into what seems like a quart of gin in a glass, I start to relax. And then I feel…

…Short Game — In Berkeley at a restaurant bar having a Manhattan, attempting to write. Shifting from awareness of the uncompromisingly yet unassumingly beautiful hostess to an attractive brown-haired woman with a suitcase talking to an older friend at the bar with a “sweetie” who shows up and disappears again. It’s a short…

Rittenhouse Square — Is there anything like it where I’m from? — Of course there is. Only in that first moment seeing others walking, reading, I feel something wondrous, new. And of course it is. In such places I find me Why’s it matter? Rittenhouse in Philly vs. at home in afternoon sun? Here I’m surrounded by unknown or different experience, I‘m…

A Man Is Playing Pinball Behind Me — I did not expect this. Sitting at a wine bar I’ve never been to before, alone but for the proprietor. Until a short man comes in and starts talking on the phone about how he was hired as a temp by Tesla before going to work for a lumber company…

What Next? A Hike to Nowhere in Particular But Somewhere With Someone In Mind.