Saturday, April 27, 2013

Berring sea fisherman

"Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time."
Do this 120 times a day...hooking up the pot, thats me on top.Smiley face...love my job

Landing pots...light weather

No more five man deck


the church i see when we make it to port

wedding

first tank... st paula off load crew

Arctic Hunter off of port



Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else

I've been trying to learn to let what is unfair teach me
Always loved this car this year this color...cant let her go, when I'm not at sea its nice to drive
This car reminds me of nicole
first date
XMAS

“You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.” 
Joy , it exists outside the self not like pleasure which is the satisfaction of some inner craving but joy...

How to communicate with a crab fisherman101

love my hair

Esteban Oriol shootie Die Antword in LA...Jealouse

yolandi DAvid Choe...Esteban..... Get up on this
-and then you're in serious trouble, very serious trouble, and you know it, finally, deadly serious trouble, because this Substance you thought was your one true friend, that you gave up all for, gladly, that for so long gave you relief from the pain of the Losses your love of that relief caused, your mother and lover and god and compadre, has finally removed its smily-face mask to reveal centerless eyes and a ravening maw, and canines down to here, it's the Face In The Floor, the grinning root-white face of your worst nightmares, and the face is your own face in the mirror, now, it's you, the Substance has devoured or replaced and become you, and the puke-, drool- and Substance-crusted T-shirt you've both worn for weeks now gets torn off and you stand there looking and in the root-white chest where your heart (given away to It) should be beating, in its exposed chest's center and centerless eyes is just a lightless hole, more teeth, and a beckoning taloned hand dangling something irresistible, and now you see you've been had, screwed royal, stripped and fucked and tossed to the side like some stuffed toy to lie for all time in the posture you land in. You see now that It's your enemy and your worst personal nightmare and the trouble It's gotten you into is undeniable and you still can't stop. Doing the Substance now is like attending Black Mass but you still can't stop, even though the Substance no longer gets you high. You are, as they say, Finished. You cannot get drunk and you cannot get sober; you cannot get high and you cannot get straight. You are behind bars; you are in a cage and can see only bars in every direction. You are in the kind of a hell of a mess that either ends lives or turns them around
             The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that life's assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in who Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from buring windows. The terror of falling from a great height is still as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire's flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don't!' and "Hang on!', can understand the jump. Not really. You'd have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.


I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.


People have dreams all the time. It don't mean nothin.The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
Stacking out coming home after King crab...

There are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.

if there is an occupational hazard to crabbing its death. if there is an occupational hazard to writing its drinking

You go back home between seasons and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different...tossing shots in the shit...watch your feet!!!!

I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing


If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.



There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.


 If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.
I left this job the same way I got it, with a duffle bag and a handshake. I wasn't a badass but I was a good crabber and I loved a piece of this job. It gets inside you, it calls you back and it becomes the cause of and solution to so much pain... a prime example of how the things I want and the things that make me happy aren't always the same thing. Ille miss it but not as much as I miss my wife and marley.
Ice at St Paul.opilio crab 2013. Bering sea fisherman second to none.LOL

these birds are like buzzards and I have an overwhelming urge to kill and eat one

Second opilio delivery...halfway through the quota..You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from

There is no God and we are his prophets

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

the church i see every time i make it back to dutch... i survived and ille see them soon

the only thing that approaches gods infinity. is mans vanity

"He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all"
love my hair

7.5 months