It starts with a shoemaker: distinctive shoes loud shoes not for hiding shoes. It grows with friends: shared shoe styles shared eccentricity shared creativity. It rests in comfort: not alone. Cel...
He didn’t say it. Not on the day or the day after, when he used to remember. No more embers. glowing. Not hanging on the threads anymore, I just realized. How strange when forever truly dies.
We need to be respectful of tender psyches, mental illness, all the agonies of existence. We need to be respectful of our own tenderness and pained existence. When being gentle of their tender tr...
Old friend synchronicity Visiting one, Another arrives out of the blue. After forty years, there are sympathetic vibrations that draw us together: joyful serendipity.
Turning pages in the address book cross a line across another entry. Turning pages studying the names crossed out A memorial of friends and family gone Greetings sent in murmured prayers to rest ...
I am in the pet store, studying dog food Oh, here you are! I saw your car! Chat for 30 minutes with a friend I haven’t seen in awhile. Buy dog food. Go to fabric store, looking at sewing mach...
I told you I’d love you forever You told me you loved me and we’d be friends forever. I meant every deluded nuance. You figured optimism works out but you also said you couldn’t answer to...
“I know this guy who chopped off all his fingers in a blender.” What? Was he intoxicated? drunk? high? “Nope.” You’re kidding. Why would he do that? “Well, you know, he wanted to ...
https://shawnbird.com/2014/10/15/anecdote-overheard-in-the-classroom/
Over heard in the staff room: K- Even if I don’t wear any other makeup, I have to wear mascara: my lashes are white! S- Me, too. I use it on my eyebrows, too. D- What!? Why don’t you just d...
https://shawnbird.com/2014/10/10/anecdote-colouring-eyebrows/
I tried to return your letters once, but they are still here, and the hurt in your voice still echoes, when I unfold pages.