Month: March 2024

Startled / Short Fiction

~ A Pondering Mind

Zeke is taking his early evening walk, which he does faithfully 24/7, unless the weather is really bad. He waved to a couple of people he knows, sometimes will have a short conversation with some of them. As he proceeded continuing his walk, when he turned the corner, and lo and behold was an anaconda snake, fully grown, and looking straight at Zeke. He was so startled, that he practically crapped in his pants, and his heart was beating away like a fucking like a drum solo at a rock concert. A minute or two went by when he finally managed to dial 911 and tell police dispatcher about the snake. Two policemen arrived a few minutes later, along with the animal control officer, and got hold of the snake, and put it in a cage.

Needless to say, Zeke didn’t get much sleep that night, as all he could thing and see in his mind the anaconda straight at him.

A Good Feeling

~ A Pondering Mind ~ 2 Comments

Listening and watching the Miles Davis video titled: What Now, leaves me feeling good all over. There is one video which was recorded back in April of 1959, and it also John Coltrane playing along with Gil Evans and other greats from the jazz community. It has to one of the best pieces of music I have listened to since I was a child. The song sounds just as good today as it did 55 years ago, and I was just a 10-year-old kid, that started liking jazz at an early age. It is a song I will never get tired of listening to.

A Sad Sight / A Short Fiction Story

~ A Pondering Mind ~ 2 Comments

it is a cold blustery day, that stop Jim for taking his daily. as he is walking through the city park something caught him in the corner of his eye. so he stopped and looked off to the side and saw a middle-aged man bundled up and smoking a cigarette. Jim went down to where the man was standing against a wall. he asked the man if he was alright and he said he was, but he said he was hungry and could use some food and a cup of coffee. Jim asked him why he doesn’t go to a shelter and he the man said he hated shelters. with that said, Jim gave him some money enough to get him a meal or two. when Jim wished him well, he continued on his walk, and he had the thought the homeless man would be most likely buy a cheap bottle of booze, and or couple of bottles of beer. he hated to think that way, but he has seen the movie played out before. and wasn’t going to go back to find out what he did his money.

March 7th Essay

~ A Pondering Mind ~ 6 Comments

its been almost six years now that I quit smoking
the same time I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
during this past time, my average weight has been
around 140 pounds plus/minus a pound or three
before I was hospitalized my weight was around
170-175 pounds and for my height of 5’6″ that to
me was a lot of excess baggage to carry around
at 75 years of age I never felt better in my life

back in the day when I was a smoker I was sometimes
smoking up to two packs a day which is way too much
so about a few months before I quit I was slowly
weaning myself away from the horrible habit
now I can’t even stand the smell of cigarette smoke
I will say this the smell of a it cigarette and the
smoke it produces is fucking disgusting and I don’t
miss smoking at all