You Don’t Forget the Blues

Jay Gatsby had a steadying green light. He followed it through the years, in an ascent far away from his beginnings. I shall be yours but blue. I’ll ask you again, let me be your blue light? Or let me be Bloc Party’s “Blue Light”, the steady tick-tock of the beating on the drums as [...]

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In memoriam

Behind the metro station in my hometown, there is a concrete parking structure, clad in brick, instead of constructed out of actual brick. Whenever I see it, I wonder if other people know that across the country, on the campus of a boarding school, there is a library that looks like this parking structure. The [...]

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the price is right

One price you pay for eternity is trying to right all the perceived wrongs. I think it means never to exact revenge, never punishing children for their parents’ slights. It means being honest and admitting when you are wrong. You admit that you looked at yourself and the world around you and only saw the worst motives and [...]

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