On the last day before winter break, a routine school assembly became something altogether different. A childhood poem, a visiting folk band, and a name called out across a crowded cafetorium created a moment that would eventually become difficult to distinguish from a dream.
Tag Archives: memory
Lego, My Ego
A family movie. A dusty bin of old bricks. And an Expert Builder who had been waiting three decades for someone to wake him up.
The Den
Hidden behind a forgotten hallway lies a perfectly preserved den where the television still glows, the radio still crackles, and the forgotten interstitials of Saturday morning patiently wait to be discovered once again. The Den is an exploration of memory not as an archive, but as a living place where the overlooked moments of childhood quietly shaped who we became.
The Altar of Syrinx
Neil Peart’s passing felt like the closing chapter of a lifelong soundtrack. Against all odds, one unforgettable evening proved that some spirits never leave the stage. A reflection on music, memory, and briefly becoming seventeen again.
The Olfactory Time Machine
A forgotten bag of sweaty clothes becomes an unexpected portal to the summer of my fifteenth year. What begins as an unpleasant chore transforms into a profound reminder that memory isn’t just stored in our minds. Sometimes it’s archived within us, waiting for the right scent to unlock a version of ourselves we thought was gone forever.
Ghost Runner on Third
There were never quite enough kids to fill every position, so imagination did the rest. Ghost Runner on Third is a tribute to sandlot baseball, unwritten childhood rules, and the quiet code of honor forged on long summer afternoons behind a weathered barn, where friendship always mattered more than keeping score.
The Density of Destiny
The Density of Destiny explores the strange intersection of astrophysics and consciousness, where gravity becomes memory, time bends beneath experience, and a lifetime gathers the weight of meaning. A meditation on aging, mortality, and our place in the cosmos.
Potsy Gopher
Potsy Gopher is the story of a childhood imaginary friend who felt every bit as real as the world around him. Born from Saturday morning cartoons, spinning vinyl, shortwave radios, and basement adventures, he became a collaborator in wonder, a defender against shadows, and a companion through the analog landscapes of youth. Though time eventually carried him away, some friendships never truly disappear. They live on in memory, imagination, and the dreams that time cannot betray.
The Analog Dream Engine and the Cyber Mind
A lucid dream begins with a prompt. A direction is given and an entire world emerges in response. That observation led me to an unsettling question: if dreams, memories, emotions, and experience are all forms of information, what truly separates the analog dream engine of the human mind from the cyber mind of artificial intelligence? The answer may be less obvious than we would like to believe.
Langan’s on 47th
A brief moment before a Broadway show, a corner seat at a Manhattan bar, and a stranger who reminded us that some places still resist walls. Langan’s on 47th is a small reflection on openness, shared space, and the quiet human grace that can surface when we least expect it.
