Attic cup: Oedipus and the Sphinx Oedipus and the Sphinx, interior of an Attic red-figured kylix (cup or drinking vessel), c. 470 BCE; in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Vatican Museums, Rome. Album/Oronoz/SuperStock How did you miss the signs, Oedipus? You, for whom the riddle of the Sphinx held no fear? […]
Photo by Nathaniel Tetteh on Unsplash skyscraper sunset the outstretched reaching hands left empty Why despise charity when it’s the greatest remaining? I walked out of the grocers and into the dark. An indigent woman that mumbled incomprehensibly sat just within light of the store. Overcome by an […]
“What if …?” And the catasrophizing begins. The breaks fail. The school finds out I’m a fraud. The well of inspiration dries. The missles launch as the last potable water evaporates. Or the inevitable destiny to live ’til I die in a box on skid row […]
The world is a beautiful place…when you have courage. When you don’t…not so much. I would know. I balled like a baby when Dorothy smacked me right in the kisser. Imagine! A King of the Jungle sopping the ground with his own sobs. Those were days […]
The Spirit moves. Sometimes in the fiercest cyclones. Far more often in the softest whispers. The story of Elijah experiencing the Presence of the Lord in the “small, still voice” comes to mind. The Spirit manifests in the gentle nudge that prompts us to the action–or […]
Husband, Father, Writer, Teacher. American Haijin. Because Haikai matters!
Frank J. Tassone 