the holding on

I've held onto it for the better part of this year. Mostly I've held on to my heart for fear its blood would seep out and I would go cold and hungry. It would not take much for me to become lifeless and live the rest of my life in solitude. It wouldn't take much …

a trip to the north

It's getting close now, this escape to the north. And the timing will be perfect. The heat of July, the heat of summer, will finally return to Texas and I will be standing at the edge of a once vast glacier and thinking I need blue like that in my life...blue water, blue skies, blue …