I Am Buraot

I am back in the shadows of my former elusive self. Dazed and confused as what lies before me and the future of my galactic awakening. The bright sunny days are like omens of what’s up ahead. Down with jitters and fears and doubts is the constant route. I fear that these challenges to prove [...]

I was driving on this road to nowhere. I was passing through more than just the places and faces of people I met, oftentimes I get lucky enough to know them, to be with them, be them. I was born from the country. Small town, big family, rough life. You know the story, short in [...]

On my middle aged quest to find meaning, I turned to astronomy. The heavenly blue skies ended where the emptiness of space started. There lies my physical limitations and began jump-starting my imaginations. Where will we be in the near future? Can we travel to distant galaxies and still find meaning? I didn’t find meaning [...]

I’m sick. And I am tired of being sick. For about six months now, I am sick. I have been in and out of the hospital and couldn’t quite keep up with my medical bills. I had become a regular with my doctor’s office I can now literally distinguish her breath from the nurses. Along [...]

Don’t be… I am back here in Los Angeles for a weekend trip to visit my mom, who unfortunately was in the hospital for stomach pains. Since I had no plans but to be with her, I will definitely be stuck at home contemplating nothing significant. That means I can have the time to fix [...]

I was out for a few days. Been down with that “flu” again. It was the last day of winter, can’t wait to get it over with and move forward to spring and say goodbye to that snow, that fog, that cold, those pestering mechanisms that seem to trigger my preternatural undefined and up-to-now weakness [...]

The sea was calm, the wind was soft. Like a feather gently putting its lips on my weary brows, it slowly eases away the frown that was permanently etched on my face. My world was quiet enough to let me savor my being alone. Like it knew that I had come from a far-away weary [...]