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This Saturday, the next to last in November...

2009 --- Shiloh-Chailin has been with me for 3 weeks
2008 --- I woke in my sleeping bag in Peskeomskut Park in Turners. I fed the squirrels and
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Greenfield... (but I'm getting on the next bus to Turners Falls, to haunt a while)

I hadn't seen Matthew in a couple of weeks, and once again thought he was gone. But last night, as I came out of a free church supper, there he was across the...
Greenfield

Twenty months yesterday since the drama-laden, humiliation-maximized eviction. Twenty months since my way of life, as I had always known it, was obliterated. Since my family was taken, scattered, hidden, killed. And to this day, no...
Saturday 7 Nov 2009, Greenfield

My journal names. Nemo (no-one), sehnen (longing) braon (for one of my dogs) mishi (for her father). I always tried to use my own name for my internet journals, but it was always already taken.

The...
I've already been to Turners today and come back, so now I'm in Greenfield again.

By the time I was 2 or 3 years old, I was a dyed-in-the-wool ancient greek skeptic. I had already adopted their "strategy of doubt." And yet at the same time -...
Turners Falls

The Law of Noncontradiction...
Greenfield

A year ago I was still living in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls. My only friends were the still the squirrels and birds, but they were great ones. For the first time since my family had been taken, I had animals to live with and...
Greenfield

I wrote today, on braonwandering.wordpress.com, about a new child, a new friend. But the computer is telling me my allowance is just about up, so I obey. What the hell else can I do. The tecnology beast will just shut me off if I d...
Turners Falls

On braonwandering.wordpress.com I've just written about a birth that took place 30 years ago. Now I come to soulcast to write about deaths.

There has been a rash of suicides in my life over the last 10 years:
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Turners Falls

I ain't afraid of your Jesus
I ain't afraid of your Jahweh
I ain't afraid of your Allah
I'm afraid of what you'll do
in the name of your god. (anonymous)

I didn't write that, someone else...
Greenfield

Infinite Regress... Reductio ad absurdum

What's holding up the world?
A giant turtle.
And what's holding up the turtle?
Another turtle.
And what's holding up that one?
It's turtles. all th...
Turners Falls

yes, haunting again today... haunting my memories of my own life as often as I can

Got a call from my daughter yesterday afternoon, a very rare event. She asked me if I were sitting down, so I knew she was going to ...
Turners Falls

It was about this time last year that I was thrown off the canal one morning by officer Jimmy, and moved down to Peskeomskut Park, right in the center of town. And that's where I lived until officer Jimmy and officer Dan threw m...
Greenfield

Yet another thing I don't get about people. There are a great many people who don't take my situation very seriously. Once in a while I get exasperated and make a little speech. I had to make this speech to someone in Turners Falls...
Greenfield (though I've already been to Turners today)

Wasn't Oct. 2 Gandhi's birthday? Belated remembrances of the Mahatma.

When I was in Turners last Thursday, something happened that continues to completely baffle me about ne...
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