by Warren Gaston | Jan 5, 2021
the world is made of boxes the earth isn’t but the world is boxes we build containers boxes we are contained restrained order is maintained because we refrain from stepping out of our comfortable boxes sometimes we think we think outside the box only to...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 3, 2021
America is a beautiful landscape, “from sea to shining sea.” America is also a beautiful idea, “with liberty and justice for all.” An old question: Can we live together, yet behave as if each one of us was living alone? Put another way; can we live well in a free and...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 31, 2020
The same old, same old, day after live long day. Fridays felt like Wednesdays, Tuesdays like Thursdays, Mondays like the day of the sun, not the day of the moon. At least Saturdays felt saturnine, dark and heavy, like the planet and the god. This year can’t end...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 30, 2020
During the candidates debate, the incumbent smiled like an angel, like an angel who forgot the first line of her auspicious announcement: “Be not afraid.” Her smile seduced me into thoughts of edible underwear, no durable substance, the fantasy of privilege and...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 28, 2020
As a number, I liked the year 2020. 2 zeroes, 2 twos Simple. The numbers added together making four. Simple. Four numbers, no ‘1’s, still 4. Simple. Half the numbers do nothing but hold place. Simple. I liked the pleasant curve of the digits ‘2’ and...
