Where does the life go, when people die?
Where do the rockets go, when they fly?
Where did the seven astronauts go,
When they burst into flames?
But where do they go? Don't give me names.
Where do they go? Way up in the sky,
Where eagles fly.
(Isaiah 40:31 )
Presented as a slideshow at the MD State Film Festival, 1986
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
HIGHLY AWARE
What are the odds
against my existence?
A million to one...?
Against my being able to think, feel, smell, hear, taste, touch and see you, right here, right now, in this moment? And both of us in good health?
I am amazed at the improbability of speaking to you in this blink of eternity. It's unbelievable! I am highly aware. Of myself, of you, of the universe around me. Why? Why am I aware? How can I possibly be apprehending? If there is no timeline, if there is no plot, purpose or grand shema to life, then this is one impossibly improbable coincidence,
a coincidence to the point of absurdity. In fact, it's one awfully convincing joke, and I'm laughing. Hard. Right now.
2000
ENHANCE THE DAY
(Written upon my high school graduation)
When life is cold within these walls
And the chill of night on old men falls,
While ladies closely draw their shawls
Will we have the gall to give our all?
Enhance the freedoom of the day
With every word you think and say
Let no fear on your hearts weigh
But take the ball and begin to play.
Enhance the freedom of the day.
When last you walk that trampled hall
Be glad it's time to heed youth's call
And may your words to Snow Hill High
Be a warm, and fond, "Goodbye."
06/1994
Paynetown, MD...
(just S/W of the
Snow Hill city limits)...