by PJColando | Sep 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Tragedy and comedy are roommates”, said one of the comedians who performed post-9/11. That night, to help bring New Yorkers back from grief, to move them forward, a blessed inch, beyond sorrow. ‘Laugh until you cry’ probably happened for every...
by PJColando | Jan 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s a new year: 2018. We didn’t die before we got old, as Roger Daltry, of The Who’s ‘Our Generation’ sang. We’re here and now, craving recollection, connection, life meanings that resonate like middle C. (Mardi Gras is coming, so...
by PJColando | May 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m Midwestern enough to trade out summer vs winter season clothing in my closet. A custom accustomed to. I’m also wealthy enough to afford new clothes at my whim. I have two closets – what about you? Not that I overdo it, mind you. I just returned...
by PJColando | Feb 5, 2014 | Purpose
I said good-bye to thousands of people in the past several days, and then threw them in the trash. Details of restoration and recovery of skills, details of loss and re-birth, notes of triumphs and tears – documented in manila files. I finger-traced all the...
by PJColando | May 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
I like pie. You may, too…it’s just fruit. Oh, and a little flour and sugar, two of the deadly great whites. It’s a self-delusion to hide behind, to say that pie is just fruit. I can’t stand behind anything because my body’s plump....
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