PinnedFinally, PhoenixIt has been months and months since Boston. I’ve only seen the faces of strangers in the strangest of terrains — but now, finally, I have made it to my cradle city; Phoenix Arizona. Finally, over their face masks, I recognize the warm familiar eyes of family. Last July, in…Traveling3 min read
Jul 18Of Spanish Fork: JournalLike forever before and forever again, I throw west. Stretching far from my adopted home in Massachusettsland, the opportunity came to reunite my more foreign home, down in the dust-kicking valley, where the savage sheriff’s been released, and brown children roam. So beige and scathing that place. Hostile, inhospitable, uncaring…Hitchhiking6 min read
Jan 19Our Opportunity on this EarthGiven at the First Parish congregation in Bedford, Massachusetts January 13, 2018: Good morning sisters and brothers. Good morning Reverend Gibbons. Good morning congregation of First Parish Bedford - It is again January; the youngest month, and today we, the people of this nation and of the world, have grown…March For Our Lives6 min read
Jan 11An American RejectionI wrote the majority of this in Mexico City and Veracruz, intending to send to my parents to inform them I would not be returning with them back to the United States. I left them immediately before our flight back to Washington, D.C., …Mexico11 min read
Jan 4El Vino, de PlátanoIt may be embellished in our world history; in sociology textbooks and political maps innumerably, as it has been for generations into the past. But in truth, today, Latin America is not one. Instead, we see a cultural region caught in a great, stumbling war with itself, dizzied and overwhelmed…Panlatinismo5 min read
Nov 17, 2021The Moment at Washington Square ParkOn the 11th of June, firebrand mayoral candidate Paperboy Love Prince hauled out a speaker system to lean besides the fountain in Washington Square Park, queued up an instrumental track on his phone, and with mic in hand, started laying down rap after rap: “Yea we here to save the…Washington Square Park10 min read
Jul 1, 2021Looking Back on America Salvationland(This is an unanticipated extension to my previous article, Finally, Phoenix) It has been a month since I left the West. A month now, in gruelingheat greater-NYC in the concrete clog and smokestack East. It’s undoubtedly even worse this time of year — but I can’t help but admit that…A Great Farm4 min read
May 2, 2021The Valley of the Sun and Environmental RevolutionThe Arizona sun is slinking down the sky again. Looks like yolk; bright, blinding yolk. Like a delinquent, high school age, took it out a carton and just smashed it, full force, against the wallpaper sky; splattering the sky blotching through the unblemished blue. Now the whole Valley watches it…16 min read
Apr 19, 2021Wiling #12March 10, 2020 // Extramortal: I should have heeded my own warnings. Should’ve run just as soon as Azul left late-Feb. For the hills…for the countryside…anywhere as long as it’s far as I can get from the cities. We’re coming into mid-March and things seem to be devolving fast. Not…Covid 193 min read
Apr 17, 2021Wiling #11February 29, 2020 // Not Me…Us: Although I am in tremendous, if numbed, physical and psychological pain; today it is a noble pain, a belabored pain… as opposed to the typical self-afflicted type. Before today, Friday Thursday Wednesday and Tuesday I worked nonstop at Andala. Almost the inverse to how…Journal6 min read
