Category Creative Non-Fiction

The personal thoughts and musings of J. R. Nichols. It would be called a blog if it were 100% based on reality.

GOdspell

I love you.I love you.Take me with you.I cannot.You say you love me.I do.How, then, can you leave me?I am not leaving you; I am continuing the journey.So, I can come.No.I’m angry.Why?I don’t know.*pause*I think…I think I’m jealous.Of what.Of you.Why.Because…

100 years

1920’s…prohibition…flappers/’rebellion’ 1930’s…depression/despair…WWII on horizon/cause to unite (A generation of hard, earnest, folks.) 1940’s…decade of WWII (a cause to unite)…(2nd generation of hard, earnest, folks.) … baby BOOM! 1950’s – suburbs/we have arrived 60’s – The Draft…hippies/’rebellion’ 1970’s…disco…WAR ON DRUGS/rock bottom…

reset

So weird how I was just telling my friends how a plague of locusts should be next and it called to mind that there is indeed a cicada hatch going to happen this year. I wasn’t 100 percent sure I…