Sunday, September 17, 2006


Whomever created this start-up must have had an easy time selling the business plan to the investors....at least the part about holding employee costs down.
copyright@2006 Jeff Beddow

Sterling finds pleasure at the end of a flower bag, emerging as though being reborn. The first time wasn't so great for him. This time the paper mother might stay with him longer, and prepare him better for the briars and brambles of life.
copyright@2006 Jeff Beddow

This was an unbearable day for Sam. The first weekend in his dorm, the first year of college, he faced demons who had not applied, or been accepted, to his college. But they were there, the dark teachers. Soon he would dance with them. Then he will make the music that will send them on their way.
copyright@2006 Jeff Beddow

This pie was one of my best. The filling was the right consistency from the time it cooled down, the crust was flaky, and the raisens in the bottom of the filling created a mincemeat counter point to the crisp, tart granny smith apples. Making a good pie resembles the construction of a good poem, except, the pie cannot proselytize any of our idiotic beliefs to others.
copyright@2006 Jeff Beddow

If Jung is right, and we have shadow selves that rarely connect with our consciousness, consider this: Is it possible that the laptop generation will find ways to put their shadows into the little light boxes, and conjure them at will, by, for instance, letting them live on their MySpace page?
copyright@2006 Jeff Beddow

Urban life stretches us to the breaking point. We therefore imagine that living in the country and having painted iron door stops in the form of chickens would mean we had a simpler life, a life that wasn't stretched, but was safe, warm and bearable. If you asked the chicken, you might hear a different story.
copyright@2006 Jeff Beddow

Who is to say that parts of us do not split off and become personalities unto themselves, carrying on their own conversations, making their own judgments, expressing in costumes and body language their secret dreams?
copyright@2006 Jeff Beddow

When I spent the month of July laid up with arthritis, the cats decided I had become part of the couch.
copyright@2006 Jeff Beddow