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About gimble

I've never understood why solitary confinement is considered a punishment. My favorite time of year is when vacation forces me to drive long hours on the overnight stretch, all other companions in the car asleep, my thoughts and the dark stretch of white-striped road all to myself. Having said that, I can happily keep busy inside my head, yet am distracted by so much of the larger world that I waste time putting those thoughts generated by those distractions down on cyber-paper. Maybe I want to see if anyone else feels likewise. Though not as bright, sharp or hard as a diamond, I am many faceted - esoteric in my literature, tending toward magic realism - pop-culture vulturish in my take on media - sentimental enough to cry at dog food commercials - and a lover of kitsch, like diners and other holes in the wall of life.

Upstate New York

Hurricanes…wildfires…
tornadoes…earthquakes…not here.
Safe beyond measure.

Hometown

Back east, the skies are
clearing, blue unending. Cool
dampness. Leaves changing.

San Diego fire 13 – Lucky

Miraculous. Fire
missed Anne’s house. She’s back at home.
The worst thing now – smoke.

Action hero irony

Never in all his
films has the Governator
seen such destruction.

CNN on location

Anderson Cooper
Singed hair not an issue when
you go gray so young.

San Diego fire 12 -11:20 pm EST

Nighttime landscapes blaze.
Lines of fire on hillsides trace
borders of life death.

San Diego fire 11 – Waiting

No word from Anne. I
am not one for prayer, but
put hands together.

Arts channel filler

Ever seen music
videos for opera?
They’re really quite strange.

Teenage angst

My daughter thinks she
is misunderstood. Really,
she’s too smart for me.

San Diego fire 10 – Anne’s hometown

Oh, God…CNN
is in Spring Valley, shooting
by Vons grocery.