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I Am Distilled

I am Charlie Kirk

A Birthday

Out of a soft bed real early, into a big chair, cozy and ready for me. A cup of Columbian brew, a blank page with which to write, the bible, and a birthday. I don’t have a lot of time and too soon it’s onto a big towel beside a warm bath with beautiful, perfumedContinue reading “A Birthday”

Journal in the Raw

The journal on the couch next to me here is bulging, as per usual, with scribbles, notes, feelings, complaints, laments, swells of happy, joyous, miserable, unmanageable life. I never fix it up. I want to remember my days however they are, however they feel. I don’t make my journal palatable for anyone else because itContinue reading “Journal in the Raw”

When I Can’t See Ahead

I used to walk in tennis shoes, miles under my feet, until I wanted to climb around on the mountains and bought a pair of boots. Lately it feels every inch of my life is a mountain worthy of those Danners. After another Saturday in the winery kitchen, I laced them up and kept paceContinue reading “When I Can’t See Ahead”