Out There

Sometimes
I let the sky
envelop me
and expand my mind
like a vast ocean
in which
everything exists
and there are
storms
and there is
calm.

No Change to Believe In

I suppose things only looked like they were going to change.

I was excited when Susan Gwinn was unseated from the Athens Country Democratic Party Central Committee¹, guaranteeing she would no longer chair the party. Naturally, a letdown followed. Establishment candidate, Athens City Council President, and Gwinn ally Bill Bias won the party chair by a 38-26 vote despite the efforts of a reform faction.

In the end, it will be more of the same. I can only hope that the reform wing of the party continues to gain momentum and can accrue enough members to affect real change². Maybe I can just hope that guys like Alan Swank³ will have the balls to say whom he voted for after giving a speech in support of one of the candidates.

I don't know why I maintain my Democrat registration.  I hate this party.

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1 That's a long name.

2 I considered running for Central Committee, but my time in Athens is drawing to a close, and I would be going up against arguably the strongest member of the party in Lenny Eliason.

3 If anyone embodies the elitist, you-can't-be-happy-if-I'm-not-happy stereotype of Democrats, it's Swank. I do not like the guy. I think he's a hypocrite and a phony. Yes, I've told him as much. He was drunk at the time, though.

The Best Sort of Distraction

It takes a lot to distract me from “The Princess Bride,” but there's at least one thing that can do it. While Wesley and Buttercup were negotiating the Fire Swamp, all I could look at was our hands, together, fingers intertwined. This is not new. Often I would stare at our hands, trying to comprehend how it is they can fit together so perfectly, how something so simple can be so meaningful. I don't know if I'll ever be able to completely wrap my head around it. What I do get is why I'm amazed by it. That I understand completely.

Simple

I want to
put a sunflower
in your hair
watch your smile spread
take a picture.

The Enduring Torch

Lord
You light my way!
I can feel
you burning
in my heart
and my soul ablaze
with you
I see
the path
you lit for me -
nothing else
in my vision.