DISTANCE
From far away something can happen a rough mountain can look beautiful romantic thoughts find their longing love of your home country blossoms difficult memories can find some piece daydreams can form in bored minds a longing is created in the distance real hope is found in the distance where all hope is gone […]
STUCK
When the mind is stuck like a car on a mud road and the wheels spin around but nothing does move, no thoughts land hopeless rage does form anger replacing progress the solution does not find you, recluse and abandoned you retreat from ambition. A.G. Munson
The Night I Killed a Man
I killed a man once. Almost forty years ago today, in the year of our Lord 1987, I travelled to Portland, Oregon with my brother’s family. My brother was then living in Seattle with his wife and their newborn daughter, Jessica. They had a nice house between Seattle and Tacoma, and I was visiting them […]
The Birth of Venus
The “Birth of Venus” is a famous painting by Sandro Botticelli, created in the 1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus emerging from the sea on a giant scallop shell, arriving at the island of Cyprus, as described in mythology. This iconic artwork is notable for being one of the first non-religious nudes since classical […]
AFFAIRS OF LOVE
I have fallen in love often been drunk on love idolizing a woman fully or the idea of her painting a grand future on a canvas of hope delirious in the moments of our rendezvous holding hands or kissing picnic in the grass unruly in her absence at peace only with arms around her […]
SYMMETRY
Nature is a novel builder of things, things that have a function, a function that sustains lifeforms, lifeforms that have a common shape, a shape where one half mirrors the other, the mirror of limbs and features, features that create a harmony, a harmony with a sense of beauty, a beauty viewed through the […]
SPRING
Sitting in snow but hoping for spring when the warmth awakens everything it will arrive as it does, much too late bringing life and renewal, to our fate. A.G. Munson