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2020 Nostalgia: Dance Fever Death Pandemic!
So much has already disappeared down the media’s memory hole, but there’s so much too many of us cannot, will not forget.

L. Roy Aiken
Jun 14, 20211 min read
 
 
 


Dandruff on the Shoulders of Giants
These are our world's leaders. Don't like it, build your own world government!

L. Roy Aiken
Jun 13, 20211 min read
 
 
 


Our Final Evenings Dining Out
I’m not saying never, but it’ll be the next best thing.

L. Roy Aiken
May 18, 20212 min read
 
 
 


An Idiot Reflects
A poem of repentance.

L. Roy Aiken
Apr 22, 20211 min read
 
 
 


Reflections on the Great Cat-tastrophe, One Year into Its Aftermath
More than a legend passed. More than an age. An entire reality went over the Rainbow Bridge with Otis T. Cat.

L. Roy Aiken
Mar 5, 20213 min read
 
 
 


The Lord’s Gym
I could riff all day on this, and as full of cuss and coffee as I am at this glorious Sunday dawn, I just might. 

L. Roy Aiken
Feb 21, 20211 min read
 
 
 


Towards a More Monastic Faith, Part 1
Oh, they had to get me started. Which is a good thing, considering how long this blog has been dark.

L. Roy Aiken
Feb 16, 20213 min read
 
 
 


COVID-19's Most Famous Fatality No One Talks About
…because the fact that Rock is dead, once and for all, does not reflect well upon us.

L. Roy Aiken
Dec 21, 20204 min read
 
 
 


Thoughts on the Night of the Fourth Sunday in Advent
December is the strangest month on our calendar. 

L. Roy Aiken
Dec 20, 20202 min read
 
 
 


October Evenings, 2020
The moon wastes no time
climbing the cold black bones of the pin oak I could have watched burn yellow forever.

L. Roy Aiken
Dec 7, 20201 min read
 
 
 


The Living Death of the Institutions
We've seen so many things change slowly, now all at once.

L. Roy Aiken
Dec 6, 20207 min read
 
 
 


Fatherly Advice to My Old Fatherless Self
It's been years since you've suffered the need to tell people what you're up to.

L. Roy Aiken
Nov 30, 20201 min read
 
 
 


Clichés Exist for Reasons
Damn them all,
they weren’t wrong.

L. Roy Aiken
Nov 29, 20201 min read
 
 
 


Sundown on the Last Saturday Before the Canceled Holidays, November 2020
The walls glow as my friends did when we were still friends and young.

L. Roy Aiken
Nov 22, 20201 min read
 
 
 


Hell, and How We Got Here, Part 2
The God Who Was Not There.

L. Roy Aiken
Nov 22, 20202 min read
 
 
 


Hell, and How We Got Here, Part 1
Getting It Backwards.

L. Roy Aiken
Nov 22, 20202 min read
 
 
 


Ghost of a Gift
A hazard of heartache in acquiring one’s décor from thrift stores.

L. Roy Aiken
Oct 29, 20202 min read
 
 
 


Peace Amid the Panic: Scenes from Late September
Archiving a most colorful autumn.

L. Roy Aiken
Oct 29, 20202 min read
 
 
 


The Ides of October
A minor mid-morning adventure in mid-month, with photos and commentary.

L. Roy Aiken
Oct 15, 20202 min read
 
 
 


Farewell September 2020
I find myself in a strange melancholy this last day of September.

L. Roy Aiken
Sep 30, 20202 min read
 
 
 
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