Category Archives: Absolutes

Water

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Jim Stewart

We pack water around everywhere we go. We are veritable bota bags of water. We humans are roughly sixty to seventy percent water. Since learning these factoids, people have been fond of comparing our water mass to that of our … Continue reading →

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Remove Spoon to Insert Foot

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Jim Stewart

My silver spoon gets stuck in my mouth when I try to articulate. (spoon: OLWomen.com; apartheid: buzzsouthafrica.com)

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Haiku: For Brian

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Jim Stewart

My friend, if I could exchange places with you now I most surely would.

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Haiku: The Night Warms

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Jim Stewart

Coffee sits swallowed at the top of my stomach; my brainstem is warm. (stock photo)

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Haiku: Relativity?

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Jim Stewart

Consciousness, a gift of accelerating time, provides no answers.

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May December Be

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Jim Stewart

You are younger than my daughter, but you are not my daughter. The rich human history of young women and old men is a cross-grain of joyful noise and heartache. Wisdom is the most valuable attribute in both directions, a … Continue reading →

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Certainty

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Jim Stewart

Clandestine wandering— I like to think that’s how my mind works. My fantasies are all about how special I am and smart and unique. Reality? I’m always unsure. Simple physics: What I see in the mirror is backwards. I have … Continue reading →

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A Left-Brain Deal

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Jim Stewart

Writing is a left-brain deal Maybe Shaping the chatter like clay into a sculpture Can it be a song too? Both? Thawed music? It’s a left-brain deal, though The right brain knows what words are but doesn’t use them, I … Continue reading →

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Haiku–Peace as an Odd Job

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Jim Stewart

Is coming to peace with ambiguity a pathway to wisdom? (illusion: sommer-sommer.com; trees: wisdom-square.com)

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Young Lodgepole Under Snow

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Jim Stewart

White laden—back arched against the brilliant cold— your example locks my admiration and my empathy in an embrace that doesn’t know what to do with itself. My perception puts you in an instant of deep bend, the dance fully engaged, … Continue reading →

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