Now & Then & Etc

My place to narrate happenings and thoughts now, or to post from my writing archives experiences then. By nature this site’s writing is rough and exploratory.

Category: life

  • We dance—we live, learn, and loveplay and cry Life is a dance—a swirling of people and eventscolors and feelingscreating beautiful togetherness We fall, we risesometimes rough, sometimes flairlife’s lessons learned The beat carries laughter and tearsthe rhythm flows on, a river to the seawe spill into eternity. Be on the floor when the band playsas…

  • Pacific Beach (on the coast of Washington state) The sun is going down, the detritus of the beach—razor clam shells, crab shells, bull kelp, driftwood—is scattered about, and the waves roll in from forever. We have a history here because twenty years ago my wife and I hosted our wedding celebration at Pacific Beach, for…