Archive for Writing & Reading

Rediscovering “Philosophical Thoughts…”

A year or so ago, I was compiling a list of “philosophical thoughts”.  Just adages or musings I had over the course of time.  I discovered them recently in my move – a printed paper that I used to have on my wall that, for whatever reason lost in time, I removed.  But in reading them again, I found that I agreed with almost all of them.  I bolded my favorites:

1.  You can’t change anyone. When you think you’ve changed someone, it’s really because they themselves want to change.

Blog Posts: Erykah Badu, Ziggy Marley, Gregorio Luke/Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera artwork from Gregorio Luke Mural event at the Ford Theatre

Diego Rivera artwork from Gregorio Luke Mural event at the Ford Theatre

Just a smattering of blog posts from my other gig:

Been roaming the town with the summer season in starting to be in full swing (though June gloom is also full swing).  So there’s more where all that came from.  I have 3 events I haven’t done write-up’s…

-cct

In Print: “Miss Independent”

My creative non-fiction

I was just informed that MUSED, the BellaOnline Literary Magazine, has all of its issues in downloadable print format.  If you’ve perused through my writing, you might recall that my creative non-fiction piece “Miss Independent” was published by BellaOnline Literary Magazine a year ago – Spring 2008.

Read “Miss Independent” online here.

Download it in MUSED, the BellaOnline Literary Magazine.  You need to register for free to access the PDF issue.  After going through the quick registration form, just click on “Mused” link.  Might want to just read online if you’re interested.  The PDF is 17MB.

Poem: the key by cc.tran

the key
by cc.tran

how dark  your locked up room -
four walls, closed door -
where you wrote your poems
read your books
gained your stay

how long
did you think you could stay?

did you see the light when it came? -
not the expected call
to death
but
unexpected

hope

did you see it
come into that room
opening the door?

reason to stay or
more reason to go

first it was your lock of hair
escaping walls
through that door
that kept you in

Why Touch My Hair?!

This is not my hair.  Could he have touched that hair instead?

This is not my hair. Could he have touched that hair instead?

These are the general approaches people take whether they’re walking on the street or on public transit:

  1. Give them some spare change.
  2. Tell them you don’t have any money (whether or not it’s true).
  3. Ignore them.
  4. Tell them to get a job.
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