GOOD FORM

  Whatever you do, whether it be classical dancing, Olympic fencing, the tempo of a prose, or a painting drawn, you strive for good form. There is grace and beauty in a good form. It does not have to be the ideal form, but the form is your personal expression. Your good form. You can […]

MY ELEMENTS

  Looking outside at the cold and snow accepting of my surroundings, I know that winter will eventually melt and go spring will come n’ the sun might show A.G. Munson

SELF IMAGE

  Out of all the self help books, self help videos, self help quotes, becoming what you think about, finding yourself, finding your inner calm, planning and aiming to better yourself and your circumstances, finding your purpose, controlling your expectations with a generous amount of hope, being content with yourself as you are … it […]

PATIENCE

  One of the most valuable traits in us all, or for anyone to embody in their existence, is the skill to wait for an outcome in stillness without trying to force the preferred result, with speed of action or by manipulation, of other people and by their circumstances, for the most of us want […]

MAN KILLING WEATHER

  I am sitting inside, sitting in the comfort of a modern building, built for comfort of heating and strength, strength to keep weather away from humans, for humans to live through bad weather, weather that can kill, weather that has killed tens of thousands of people, killed with frost and wind, wind that is […]

BIRTHDAY

  On this day I turn a year older a little wiser and a bit bolder, grateful to have come this far my body aging like an old car and I am tempted to compare myself to old pictures n’ stare, at a man who has always been in his heart, still only nineteen but […]

The Decameron

  The Decameron (nicknamed l’Umana commedia (“the Human comedy”)), is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence […]