Hi out there,

I’ve taken a small hiatus from blogging for the last couple of months.  Will be back with some fresh stuff here shortly.

Right now, I’m watching my three year old dance a mad dance as she chases her dog around the house.  I’m reading Richard Ford (“A Piece of My Heart”, what an amazing, visceral book that evokes place in ways that I’ve seldom read before) and listening to the Pearl Jam b-sides album “Lost Dogs”.

“Hard To Imagine” is one of my favorite cuts from that album.  Great line to start that song:  “paint a picture/using only grey/light your pillow/watch the flame”.

There are only six days left in this year, and if you listen too closely, you can get swallowed by the seconds drifting by.

Me, I’m holding tight to the flotsam.  The rain has broken here, finally, out at the Western end of the world a few blocks from Ocean Beach.

Looking forward to pen touching paper.

–JSwaingrass.