MY Jonathan still loves to fly, still more than anything else in the world. But there are 365 bedtimes in a year. So when I’m feeling political, which is often, my Jonathan protects the undefended, fights the ugly balding seagull bully, and is an up-stander in the face of seagull gangs. When I’m feeling romantic, Jonathon traverses oceans on wobbly wings to reach far away islands where he’ll swoop under waterfalls and over sunrises. When I’m feeling introverted my Jonathan loves more than anything else to be alone, breezing by jagged cliff sides and crashing waves in games of self-amusement.
Browsing Category on nature
8 legs, 1 life
Wisdom, they call it, at the root of that reptilian-twitch, I put the mundane down, look over my shoulder and slowly follow my body out the door. His words are muffled by the back of…
Footprints in Peru, Day 9: romancing pachamama
a community service project sponsored by World Nomads After a night of tossing through below-freezing temperatures, the sun finally rises. And as I peer out of my tent to watch it chase away the shadows,…
monsieur peanut
Now I pulled this same idiot move in Guatemala when I spent a day working at a coffee finca and was baffled by the red and green candy-colored skins masking my coffee-shop bean incognito. Again,…
enter tinkerbell
Once upon a time, in the Caribbean waters on the coast of Honduras, where the water and sky constantly compete in an indiscernible photo finish for the definition of turquoise, I was working as a…
the last turtle
14.1, 3.1, 2.1 15.2, 3.4, 2.3 12.5, 2.7, 2.0 “Oh my gosh, this one’s so little!” I put the slide rule down and, with two careful fingers, lift the little creature up. His width, as…
a day in the life
Sometime in the last few months I picked up a new personal meal-prompted ritual. And it only slightly (and admittedly irrationally) bothers me that onlookers might presume I’m Christian (which I, although a fan of…
Defining a Non-Violent Reality
– New Pictures (nabbed from my roommate´s camera) ***** Having made my tracks on only the whiff of whim, I find myself once again looking up to the clouds for the source of the fairy…