AUTHOR.CALHO: If I didn't write it, I would be hitch hiking cross country to Maine and then Alaska in that order. While taking frequent breaks to spread leaflets. And sit in diners. And write on things because I wasn't at a computer. I may still do that in a few years. Writing this also helps me forget about and better understand the limitations of being human, and keeps me busy enough to allow me no free time to burn the world down.

THEMATIC.ABOUT : Collapse often. The things that hold people together and hold them apart and scatter brains. The things that make thoughts go boom. The things that ooh and aah and [expletive deleted]. Sometimes poking around the margins where responsibility ends and the only one to look to is the Original Equipment Manufacturer and say "but, I already pressed 9 for more options and the menus are exactly the same. Can you just replace it?" The answer will be: "please hold." Sometimes hanging out in dark corners. Sometimes following the train tracks. Looking for ways out and ways in and all the while sharing the things seen and heard and done and drawn and written and scorched and healed and teased and caged and dreamed along the way.

3/11/17

Dear (_____)

Dear Renaissance Gent,

Every now and weekend you realize you are worth your salt at just about anything and very very good at almost nothing.  There is nothing you cannot do poorly and a couple of things you can do with deadly dexterity and those things have no value on their surface to anyone who would even give them a second glance.  You are always out of your depth and comfortable.  You are a big fish in a big pond and a small fish in a muddy ocean.  I hope you feel okay.  I hope, too, that how you feel has little to do with what you do.

Sincerely,

the ocean
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