I know I’m not the only one who feels like we as a species might have woken up late one day and missed our grand finale; or at least our intermission. We seem to be long overdue for a greatness that I’m really afraid we don’t know how to be capable of anymore. I have all… Continue reading On people-ing
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on growth
You are a shape with ever changing edges; You always think you know it all when you have learned your corners, But remember that you are organic and you grow and swell with heat and knowledge. You only know until you grow; And then you must learn again.
Charlie Countryman on MOVIE MONDAY!
MY FIRST MOVIE MONDAY! Very excited to start discussing movies and inviting conversation and interviews on movie taste, directing styles, genres and their characteristics, and other endless topics connected to the film industry. Think of this more as a movie recommendation and critique than a movie review, as my personal philosophy is to always find… Continue reading Charlie Countryman on MOVIE MONDAY!
In another attempt to become a more organized or disciplined writer, I am going to start practicing my reviewing skills! Movie Monday will commence here next week, with a movie review and some movie recommendations! As the weeks pass, I’ll put up a permanent page to aggregate all the reviews. Also, feel free to suggest your… Continue reading
On not sleeping
Before the sun rises the loneliness eats me, in a nostalgic, delicious kind of way. I assume it was the jet lag in Sri Lanka that will forever resonate with me, that pre-dawn quiet of knowing absolutely nothing about where you are, what you will do, who you even are.I remember waking up that first… Continue reading On not sleeping
On interrupting
When I was 11 my mother moved us to Jordan for a year, where she enrolled me in private school and allowed my teachers to fail me as long as they also helped me learn to read and write in Arabic. She spent every spare moment trying to enrich my experience in a place I… Continue reading On interrupting
On speaking easy… into magic
One of the hardest things to emphasize to my kids when I have them, is how amazed they should be at the connectedness of our world. I REALLY don’t want to walk around always saying, “IT WAS NEVER LIKE THIS WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE!” but I really want them to have a wonder and… Continue reading On speaking easy… into magic
On speaking easy
People who complain about words like ratchet reappearing in the lexicon with a different meaning just don’t care or know how language works. It’s taken me a long time to be able to accept this idea, but words do not control our world. We make our words! We give them all the power they have. A… Continue reading On speaking easy
On remembering
My memories are the heat of your body, My memories are the animal breathing of the night we drove hours to meet somewhere in the middle. My memories are like secrets that every lover knows
on the weight of salt
out there on the muggy shores of the dead sea,I felt the ground shake and move beneath me. out there in black mud and heavy air,salt dissolved and itched and tangled my hair. I went there to be moved and out in the desert,Pangaea herself seemed to tremble with hurt. With purpose I fled to… Continue reading on the weight of salt
Garbanzo Bae 