Author: ps pirro

• Functional Politics

  People who are struggling to make the actual world conform to some imaginary one are rarely prepared to accept the compromises, the negotiations, and the…

• Ugly Truth

  I can’t listen to that song. It makes me remember things. Lucinda Williams, “Ugly Truth”

• Permission

  It’s not uncommon for teenagers to whine that there’s nothing to do in this town. Or for college students to talk about the limits of their…

• Birds Will Fly

  The windows in this house, painted shut for decades, I’m scraping away now at old latex, flaking the lead, peeling back the years to their bare…

• Projects

  Kio Stark , on gaining a sense of competence and assessing your personal progress by showing others what you’ve learned and focusing on projects. She’s…

• Anyone Can Look Up Answers

  Ask questions about life. Be curious. Because it’s the questions that are important. Anyone can look up the answers but not everyone can ask the…

• Geography is Cruel

  It can’t be about the running anymore. It can’t be about the treasure, illusory as the rainbow under which it never really waited. It can’t…

• Seven Breezes

  Standing on the side of an Indiana back road I look in nine directions and count seven breezes going by, the one that cools, the one that…

• Rain

  I’m holding on underneath this shroud.

• People Think of You Often

  There’s a line in “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace that I used to return to often. It reads, “You will become way less concerned…