Posts Tagged ‘aging’

Crossing Paths

Posted: 25th August 2010 by Brian in Personal
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The boy on the left and the boy on the right don’t know each other.  Neither one can comprehend the other’s existence.  They’re both five years old in these pictures, these recorded snapshots of light and shadow, and neither of them can understand the concept of birth or death.  In these captured moments in time [...]

36 Trips Around the Sun

Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Brian in Personal
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I turned thirty-six in February.  Thirty-six, if you can believe that shit.  Four years away from forty.  Forty!  That’s the age of someone’s dad!  Oh wait; I am someone’s dad. When I was young-grade school age-I never thought much past age thirty.  I wondered what I’d be doing when I was twenty one.  I wondered [...]

No Regrets

Posted: 19th April 2009 by Brian in Personal
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A couple months ago on our way to get haircuts for Orson and me the family stopped for dinner at White Castle since it’s right next door to the salon. When I walked in I saw a really old man sitting at a table, just watching people. He observed us for a while and then [...]