January 2011 Blog Posts (32)

My most recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Schroedinger's Cat Paradox:

 

A 75 Year Old Feline with More than Nine Lives

What just happened here?
I'm minding my own business
And the world gets weird.

On my way to work, my mind was on the go, go, go! I'm a person thatbelieves in signs, if you will. Sometimes, these signs are shown to meon actual signs. I spend a lot of time reading, even when driving; I'mreading the signs/billboards along the way and then playing letter/wordgames, it keeps my mind occupied....especially because I haven't had aworking radio in my car for years now lol. I digress, so anyway...Idon't see hidden messages on every sign I read, if I did...my mindwould explode…

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I just realized that with the posting of tonight's haiku, I now have only 2 weeks left to go with this project. I'd just like to admit now that it's been harder than I thought to write over 350 haikus. But it's also been very easy because at times they have almost written themselves.  Anyway, I'd appreciate it if you would stick around and see this thing through to the end with me.  Thanks.

A brass whale can't swim.

A leaded glass bird can't fly.

I'm the right stuff now.

Thoughts spill from my mind

But my mind is still overflowing

There's no room inside my head

I'm trying to sort things out

Just trying to make sense of it all

 

I look to the left

I look to the right

I can't tell which direction I'm supposed to go

I thought I knew where my life was headed

And then…

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There's a song within all of us

Many try to quiet the tune

Keeping it to themselves

And others let it be heard by anyone willing to listen

Proclaiming who they are and how they feel

 

When people let their songs be played together

It can create a symphony

Melodies and harmonies working together

To create the…

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Doo bee doo bee doo.

A rama lama ding dong.

Oo ee oo ah ah.

Our lives move forward

Ever accelerating;

Suddenly stopping.

Geese fly overhead,

Their V pointed to the south.

Don't stand underneath.

Starting all over

Or just continuing on?

Depends on your trip.

in the fullness of the memory

it seems that I was disappointed

yet again

unflinching

 

and yet I swelled with pride

unbidden come to rest upon my bosom

and finding peace

did dance

without much glitter

though in peace

 

and so does a goal astound

I want that which is denied me

I am not he who waits

though so I must become

before my truths are revealed

to…

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