Tag: loss

• Extra Words of Wisdom: John Scalzi

  Because waiting until next Wednesday would be too late…. “If you’re having trouble understanding the grief over Leonard Nimoy’s passing, here it is: every geek just lost their favorite grandparent.”–John Scalzi  

  JunkChuck

  March 7, 2015

  Quote, Uncategorized

  death, grief, john scalzi, leonard nimoy, loss, sci fi, science fiction, spock

• Life, Death, Robin Williams and Henry Rollins

  I haven’t posted on some of the big, obvious topics that have been shooting down the rapids with such astonishing velocity and mass over the past few weeks. Ferguson, Missouri and ISIS, the leveling of Palestine, the Ebola outbreak. I could take the easy way out, as I had intended, by telling myself–and you–that I […]

  JunkChuck

  August 23, 2014

  Commentary

  anger, david foster wallace, depression, grief, henry rollins, kurt cobain, loss, mork, robin williams, spalding gray, suicide

• The Weeds Have Grown Up Around The Stone Fire Ring

  (working draft…) The weeds have grown up around the stone fire ring; morning glories twist filigree about the wrought iron table and the lane is laid in gold with last year’s grass, a few bold saplings, sticky burdock and the soft fallen limbs of carefully inventoried trees. The big oaks look good, the hemlocks by […]

  JunkChuck

  July 6, 2014

  My Poetry, Uncategorized

  Adirondack chairs, decay, emerald elm borer, loss, nature, poem, poetry, time, wooly adelgid