thought·shelf

Current Status: Aimless Betterment If egg salad (which is ostensible) weren’t already a thing, would we perhaps call it a warm egg salad...

There's a blanket ladder rack on the wall. Stacked rows, some columns filled, some margined by blank space. Would it be better if they...

I wonder why Stop signs are hexagons but the more universal Stop icon is a square. A black square with no border - apply a negative...

I open my eyes briefly, then go back to sleep Waiting until it's light out Eventually I realize the sun's been up for hours

I don't know what I want to do with my future (see travel). For now, the tool at my disposal is a brainstorm, a sort of mood board. So...

I think we have this concept engrained in us, especially those who grew up religious, that giving the people what they want (including...

April 22, I slept with my window open And woke up to summer. For the rest of the morning I heard garbagemen shouting incantations over...

What does it take to get on the television? Would it matter if you knew? (Does a self-help book give an ounce of reassurance to readers...

Every time Emma Watson bursts out in laughter, I ...I just can't believe her. Does anyone else take great pride in their pinky nails? I...

remembering a week in late April: Monday: Auditioned for a musical at the Lyric™ Trimmed my armpits Listened to a podcast on Aging...

It's the netflix N isn't it? It looks like a rainbow, the way It comes at you, but it's probably not made of more than 4 colors.

When I say feel the floor, I mean feel it in all your senses, Your sight, your taste, down through the waist To the floor, echoing in...

I can't quite count the number of times I've left my phone in the car, sitting there in the dashboard mount like an abandoned child. Like...

My head is being massaged, like it's a large porous sponge that's very full of water and someone wants to squeeze just a bit out. Enough...

cannabis-catalyzed thoughts from april, '21: Everything is interesting here, in this world behind and around our own, silver and bumpy,...

Owen comes from a home for orphaned children, along with his two brothers. They had each been tasked by the home's administration to...

even if you promise to listen, if you promise to sympathize, can I trust you'll hear? I'm recognizing a deep desire of mine to be known,...

I'm looking out, daisy, at a room-- robin's egg. and white. You're next to me, splashing in Audrey Hepburn, cinema hue. By the light of...

It's black, as thick as can be while leaving something to frame. In its bright white center is more of the same. More of the same, like...

Some thoughts are like fireworks. From a fixed point they sparkle generously through a navy sky. And I watch them, taking notes like an...