I long for Paraguay as much as I long to breathe. The existence of that country is one more thing that is there in my mind, perhaps an ambition, perhaps a place, perhaps the representation of a dream or a representation of the concept itself of simply wanting, perhaps simply the sound of a word.
It [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Paraguay, Hijo de hombre
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Stream of consciousness
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2009 | 13 Comments »
The months fly by, and every time I check it is a different one, but I’ve lost my dread that they pass, that time goes by. It simply happens. I chose emotional over political a while ago and held fast to it, but every so often I reacted badly to people who choose the opposite. [...]
Going…
Posted in Uncategorized on January 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It’s been a disaster, there’s no sugarcoating that fact. But in a way, the Bush years were more a failure of the system than of the man himself. A person of his intellect should never have been able to climb that high and attain the presidency in the first place. If you strap a monkey [...]
Santa Claus’ Tribulation, part 3 of 3
Posted in Santa Claus' Tribulation on January 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The end was approaching. The self-sufficient community that had been set up in times past was decimated. The only ones left were the old workers, the ‘elves’. Even they had begun the meticulous process of dying off. Morale at the workshop being what it was, Santa could only be grateful that – contrary to popular [...]
Santa Claus’ Tribulation, part 2 of 3
Posted in Santa Claus' Tribulation on January 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The years were passing, and yet they still found Santa delivering toys long after many of the eight year-olds had stopped believing in him. The invisible leg irons that age had coupled to his ankles were also witness to his beard turning white and the steady increase of his weight. His wife, who looked at [...]
Santa Claus’ Tribulation, part 1 of 3
Posted in Santa Claus' Tribulation on January 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
(The real story of Santa Claus. Santa has feelings too, he goes through angst just like the rest of us…)
Santa Claus had been delivering toys from what seemed like time immemorial. He had first had the impression that there was something vaguely special about Christmas when he was a younger man who didn’t yet need [...]
