All Memories Have a Tinge of Bad 24 August 2022 Louis Vincent Balbi I’ve had a couple of bad days. – Why? Remembering and socializing with… – With whom? People. – A party? A wake and a funeral. – Oh. It was bittersweet. It felt good to be with… – Sorry for your loss. Some […]
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The Past Lives On 13 March 2016 Louis Vincent Balbi My seeing the effects today of the actions of our past, led you to complain, “Stop living in the past.” I do not live in the past but the past lives in me. The past lives in all of us, whether we accept it or not. Our children are proof of
An Age of Angels Poem Sometimes I wish I was less at ease being alone. I imagine I learned to seek refuge within myself ever since I was little because I found the world outside myself too unpredictable, unstable, and changeable. It frightened and confused me. I mention this because I would have liked to
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Consuming August 13 August 2022 Louis Vincent Balbi AUDIO: Consuming August read by Louis Vincent Balbi Tending to my daily duty to Yeats’s dying animal — the mortal body we each are fastened to — I put in time on my sturdy Schwinn recumbent exercise bike listening to an Audible audiobook. Now I am as hot and sweaty as when stepping out of