I often pull away from the people I care about when I’m unsettled, in a funk, or low on energy; as a mode of self-preservation, it is imperfect. So long as I keep close tabs on myself and the withdrawal doesn’t evolve into a full-blown exercise in isolation, however, the practice appears to serve me [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
november
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Dressed in brilliant colors — its evenings merely hinting at the winter to come — October is fall at its flirty best. November, on the other hand, is when the season gets down to work. The sun rises and grows thinner with each passing day, until one afternoon you look up and realize that its [...]
apparitions
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
A few weeks ago, the fog began drifting in from the coast just as the sun dipped behind the horizon. For several evenings, it would settle into parking lots and linger in the roads, where neon lights took on a pleasant softness and the geometry of the city was erased. Ghosts emerged in the milky [...]
