Stop! If you haven’t read the previous Delivery, you can find it here: And if you are wondering what this “Archaic Concept” stuff is, why not start at the first Delivery? Part One The old man closes his laptop and sighs. Done. That entire thread of his life is now documented. Documented as fiction, as…
Category: Another World Within
Pain and Palliative Care
COVID: Another Source of Pain… and Anxiety So after nearly 36 months of working so hard to avoid COVID, I’ve got the spicy cough. I’m not actually coughing too much, but I’m congested, I’ve got itchy eyes, I’m aching everywhere and I’m exhausted. Those last two things aren’t all that unusual. Aches and exhaustion are…
Sharing (Caturday Questions)
Big Cat, Little Cat: Sharing Timing a Joke Did you ever go through a period of maybe a few months or maybe… twenty years… in which every time you tried to tell a joke nobody laughed? And it took until you were in your mid-twenties to early thirties before people started actually laughing when you…
Kindness: Be Kind, not Nice
Last week I got a new roommate here in rehab. She’s recovering from some pretty major surgery and really isn’t “alert and oriented”. Her husband has been coming here every day and sitting with her for ten to twelve hours a day. He clearly loves her very much and wants to do all he can…
Becoming Two by Gabriel Wu
成雙 愛情做了夫妻就和魔術師分離麵包恢復麵包的模樣蜜糖開始告發蜜糖的有效期我們日常收拾小孩的日常小孩收拾我們的夢 總有吵得兇的時候黑得以為看不見明早的太陽把心一狠下輩子對你的愛先拿來這輩子用 文：吳耀宗 Becoming Two Once love makes us a coupleIts magic expiresBread regains bread’s castHoney rats out its own expiration dateRoutinely we pick up our children’s routineChildren pick up our dream Once in a while we fight so hardThe night so dark that I thought the sun did not riseSo I steel myself:My love for you in the…
Exactly the Same
Something I don’t yet understand.But wish to:When I write a poemI put my heart into it.Think deeply into a questionScratch out revision after revisionRage for days, months, yearsFinish only when I can whisper:This is how I felt.This is how I and only I felt at this one unique momentThis singular combination of circumstances that never…
Playing Telephone (Caturday)
Big Cat, Little Cat: Playing Telephone Playing Telephone: Mistakes and Fiction This is one of the most interesting and thorny subjects. It’s hard to imagine a bigger difference between fiction and life than the issue of mistakes. In life, we make mistakes all the time. We act against our self-interest. And of course we just…
Church and School:
At long last, it’s the holiday break! Two weeks away from school, grading work, scraped knees, runny noses, and spelling quizzes. A chance to relax and come back refreshed in January. So of course, I started my break by visiting my parents and going to church with them. School and church. At least I’m keeping them…
Observations of a Jew on Christmas
Let’s talk about Christmas. Sure, I’m Jewish and I talk a lot about being Jewish. But when you consider how many of your favorite Christmas songs (and the best Christmas songs) were written by Jews, it’s clear that Jews have plenty to say about Christmas. I certainly do. Christmas, Whether you Like it or Not…
Merry Christmas! (Caturday)
Big Cat, Little Cat: What, to a Cat, is Christmas? Description Three identical images side by side. In each, two cats sit on a cushion. On the left sits a large orange with darker orange stripes. He smiles down at his companion, eyes closed, face placid. On the right sits a small grey with darker…