Lateral Drift

I settle back in the grass and rest again. Maybe it’s not having answers that’s defeating both of us. I don’t want to go ahead because it doesn’t look like any answers ahead. None behind either. Just lateral drift. That’s what it is between me and him. Lateral drift, waiting for something.

- Robert M. [...]

darting furtively

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

- J.D. Salinger

Zen evenings with me

I went out to dinner with a man tonight who, like all the other men who initially insist on accompanying me somewhere, thought that by virtue of my looks we would have something in common. I’m not completely sure why this is so, although those who know men could argue that perhaps said dudes were [...]