Semicolon Memoirs.
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Piano Instructor |
| Location | Benin |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | I have long been attracted to the semicolon. The mark is outdated and Victorian and unpoetic but I know why it draws me. The tension of waiting. The suspension of finality. The peace of knowing order and relations exist. The semicolon is brimming under my skin; it is the theology I cry for at night when the daybreak of a period seems far away. The semicolon knows no hierarchy between past, present, and future; it connects all three. It calls me to rest, to breathe "this holy minute" (Leah Harris, poet). In wisdom it calls me not to lay my past in the ashes of extinction but to know my history is not a mistake. It calls me to my future life overseas. These are my memoirs. |
| Interests | Running, soccer, reading, writing, slam poetry, gay rights, humble intellectuals, community, learning, Ronald Rolheiser, Daniel Beatty, C.S. Lewis |
| Favorite movies | Running Scared, Brokeback Mountain, Man on Fire, A Beautiful Mind, Crash, Yes Man |
| Favorite music | Ben Rector, Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown, Hillsong, Skillet, Josh Groban, Jim Brickman, Disturbed, anything that took great intellect and effort to create |
| Favorite books | Any modern poetry, Mere Christianty, Tweak, Smashed, The Holy Longing, The Mind on Fire, Stumbling Towards Faith, The Inner Voice of Love, On Writing Well, The Intimate Art of Writing Poetry |