Dreamscape Series From the Perspective of a Spider Jon Hillenbrand, December 29, 2015October 16, 2019 One morning, there was a spider in my bathtub as still as the stars in the sky. I considered it for a moment and turned on the faucet. The water flooded toward him and the spider swam with all eight legs as fast as it could. Looking like it was…
Poetry Cycles Jon Hillenbrand, March 20, 2011December 30, 2015 Life and death, war and peace, being together and living apart all cycle in the nature of the seasons. Similarly, that pattern belies a deeper truth. That is, that even though they repeat, things are different each time, with some progression, some regression, every time around. In war, there may be an attack…
Dreamscape Series Children of an Idle Brain Jon Hillenbrand, February 14, 2011October 16, 2019 It’s sad that in the past five years of blogging, despite my roller coaster love life, I’ve only posted once on Valentine’s Day. In 2009, I wrote about saving your old emails and how it paid off in a pointless argument in CYA Email Bitch Slap. Bad form on a day…
Photography Et maintenant au Congo Jon Hillenbrand, August 30, 2010October 17, 2019 Often when I am photographing wealthy socialites partying or buying art on the north shore of Chicago, I think of a friend of mine, Amy Ernst, who is in the Congo right now taking amazing photos of interesting people. But she’s not there to take photos, she’s doing her part…