I’ve been studying Robert Johnson and listening to Leonard Cohen and his tower of song… It’s about the lives and loss and tradgeties as much as the music or maybe the music is the by product…I don’t know.I do know I feel fortunate to have something to listen to besides Dylan.Dennis Mantin

Dennis Mantin

Peter owns a laundromat. I drop off once a week… He runs it with his wife and they golf almost everyday most of the year. Lovely Happy Couple.

I asked how long he’s owned the laundromat. He searched his mind. “16 years.”

“What did you do before this?”

“I owned a gas Station, 24 hours a day, 8 full time employees, 3 heart attacks, 10 operations… almost died.”

Dennis Mantin

I long for nothing now: It’s just one vile task after another… Total Surrender!

Sex has come and gone and strangely silent and serene.

I am the cheque writer, the bank account, the provider, the solution… For others

It’s glorious! Really

Dennis Mantin

It’s an in the moment THANG…

Those who can stare into that abyss and not blink, they are truly special!

Kawhi is one: others exist.

Mike C calls it the blur.

Can you stay focused when you are in the blur? When everyone else is losing it?

So much to learn…

Dennis Mantin

Dennis Mantin

Awaking from a Vivid Dream!

That fades to somewhere: where I have no memory.

The sun: the glorious warmth of the sun has returned and no one is summoning me away from the voices in my head which seemed to have retired.Coffee and onward…

Dennis Mantin

It’s about 10 years ago that I told him:

“I don’t care what you do, but get a job.”

His eyes glassed over and I could tell I was close to losing him back to addiction…

” I don’t care what you do! I don’t care if you separate pepper from fly shit with boxing gloves on… Just get a fucking job. ”

He laughed and came back.

Today I called and he texted back that he was working. A lawyer.

Big Shot.

Dennis Mantin

I have lived with hate and released that pure power on an unsuspecting pond of unawareness…

I have felt love with no plan in place of how to deal with such an overwhelming wave of power and pain.

I have lived in light and darkness and long for nothing except more.

Dennis Mantin