30. January 2011 by admin.

The other morning, as I was reading articles in my computer room, I heard a woman scream.   Immediately, my attention was wrested away from my writing, I sat up straight, and waited in silence, listening for any clues that someone was in danger.  My heart began to race. Read the rest of this entry »

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30. January 2011 by admin.

I can still vividly remember walking through run-down Neapolitan suburbs (or, the closest they could get to them, anyway) as a seventeen-year old, firmly within the grasp of an LSD trip.  As I walked through the tall, unkempt grass and weeds, they brushed against my knees as though greeting me with a handshake.  The summer sun was looking down upon me, and the rays felt as though they were shining into my body, as though I was illuminated, and radiating life back into the universe.  Though I usually noticed the garbage on the messy Italian streets, that day it seemed less prominent, if not unnoticeable, and nature’s technicolor vibrance jumped from objects which would have been previously considered not only ordinary, but drab.  I was, at least I felt, as though totally connected with reality, as though something that I had lost along the way had suddenly been found, and I was home. Read the rest of this entry »

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