The first thing that comes to my mind with the word Utopia is the Chinese café in San Francisco’s Chinatown located at 139 Waverly Place aptly named the Utopia Café. I stumbled on this some time in the early 1990’s
Author: geohrinj
Losing Touch
I suspect when it comes to losing touch sometimes that’s a good thing and sometimes not. Facebook for example seems to be a very powerful tool for reconnecting and staying in touch with folks and not just old school friends
Birds
I attended the local Women’s March on Saturday (1/20/2018) here in Denver. It was an extremely exhilarating event. I have not felt the same empowering and invigorating feeling since some of the earlier Gay Pride demonstrations back when we called
My Favorite Childhood Hero
“…he was a queer man and would go about the village without noticing people or saying anything. In his own teepee he would joke, and when he was on the warpath with a small party, he would joke to make
WHEN I PLAYED SANTA CLAUS
Full disclosure right out of the box here I have never played Santa Claus. I did get to read the “Jesus lines’ in a Catholic grade school play around Easter time my 8th grade year. We were “performing” part of
Empathy
Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another sentient being. I must admit that I live in a bit of a privileged cocoon these days especially since I have not worked at Denver Health
Clearly
So clearly is an adverb that means without doubt or obviously. With that definition in mind it is a word I should “clearly” be very cautious in using. It should be admonition enough against using this word that the main
Rolling Thunder
“If the thunder doesn’t get you the lightning will.” Garcia/Hunter Several thoughts came to mind with the topic of Rolling Thunder. I opened this piece with a short line from the Grateful Dead song called The Wheel. One of my
Tears
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government, I can not remain silent.” April 4th, 1967. Martin Luther King More often than not these days when trying to write something for this group I am stumped with
Finding Your Voice in the Dark
For many of us in this Story Telling Group I imagine that “finding your voice” could easily be a metaphor for our individual coming out, an emerging from the dark. A truth is implied in finding one’s coming out voice