"Quiet a mind long enough...

... it writes its own poetry. " This is an experiment in brevity. It is also an experiment in no commenting, and not being judged. Art, for Art's sake. You are Art. Keep it brief, make it as awesome as you feel.

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River view from the Grundy Library

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Friendship breakups happen, too.

Recently, I, for the lack of a better term, broke up with a friend. Maybe it’s more correct to say that I ended an acquaintanceship. You might say to yourself, "Lydon, WTF? Why not just leave it alone? Who has time for that?" Well, that’s precisely the point, you see. Dig it: I know it’s popular and easy to think of love or capital L "LOVE" as something unlimited, enduring, magical, and forever.…

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Drawings from Drawlloween 2024

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Getting Around It

I hate getting sucked into things I disagree with, but it happens. A lot. So I’m trying something different, namely, avoiding being on twitter by moving away from the microblogging, attention junkie platform, back to the regular blogging platform of WordPress. There, I don’t have to have an opinion on everything. Senece or Marcus Aurelius or someone would be proud. My head, on the other hand, is…

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Good Fats on Desert Islands

Good Fats on Desert Islands

I’m listening to a Fats Waller record that Liz got me at a swap meet for my birthday this past July. I dig it, not that I’m too surprised at that. I’ve always dug piano music, especially music that could associated with jump blues, rhythm and blues, boogie woogie, et cetera. Oddly, though I’ve wondered about that High Fidelity / John Cusack / Nick Hornby question of the Desert Island discs. What…

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A summer night in 2022

A summer night in 2022

Sometimes, I have thoughts longer than the 280 characters allowed in a Tweet. Sometimes, I have nothing at all to say. Right now, I’m caught somewhere in between feelings of gratitude after having a great vacation to Ireland with my wife, and bottled rage at the 300th? mass shooting in America this year. Boy, aren’t WE exceptional? https://photos.app.goo.gl/szxpSLUsKxwtL3o87 I’d say more right…

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Wondering if this thing still works...

Wondering if this thing still works…

and… does it? Write on, Matt Lydon

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It hurts.

It’s been almost two years since I wrote here. Lots of things have happened. I quit Facebook and felt free. A pandemic arrived last year and it made it cool (and correct) to wear a mask in public. My mom died. Somewhere inside, I’m heartbroken. The rest of me hasn’t caught up and everything feels weird. And then came the diagnoses… Sure, I’ve had severe obstructive sleep apnea for fifteen…

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Testing

seeing if this works on the new site Write on, Matt Lydon

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Creating a universe

A lot of you get deeply involved in story systems, or creative universes, as it were. Maybe you delve into the films of Stephen Spielberg, or perhaps Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire is more your speed. Maybe you get your kicks from comic books, so the DCEU and the Marvel Cinematic Universe are your thing. Whatever it is, you like diving into a world that is rich with history, characters,…

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Closing the Door

Tonight, I play my last show as an improviser with the group Tongue and Groove. There are some mixed emotions about this, but it’s truly a step I need to take. The genesis of this begins in 2012.

2012 was a very weird year. My first marriage had dissolved the year before, and I had finally received my divorce decree on January 2. But I was dating again, including the wonderful lady who is now my…

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Dusting off after another school year

Dusting off after another school year

I know that no one except bots reads this blog. It makes sense; I almost never update it, and last time I did, I said something about not teaching anymore. Well, time and situation has made a liar of me. As I type this, I’m taking a break from packing up my classroom and getting my laptop in shape to hand back to the IT guy here at the school I’ve been teaching at since January.

Oh, I still have…

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Year End Recap?

I’m not going to go deep on a recap of what I thought were the best examples of stuff other people created this year. There was plenty good, to be sure. What I’d rather do, though, in just a few lines, is say that I made it through another year. There are some things that have dawned on me slowly over the last year, some of which are still slowly opening to me. My creativity woke up again this…

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