Three Bows to 2020 I loved 2020. I know that beggars popular orthodoxy, but it is so true. And it may trigger some of you. I apologize for that. You have a right to be indignant about 2020. I do feel deeply for all the pain and loss everyone is suffering. But for me, personally, … [read more]
Narrative
Rodeo Sisters
Rodeo Sisters -Geoff O’Keeffe 10.03.20 I’ve slept outdoors hundreds, perhaps thousands of nights. We began as kids and would lay a tarp in the yard in the summertime with our rectangular sleeping bags with flannel deer and pine tree linings, dozing under the desert stars for weeks at a time. A little older, I spent … [read more]
Joe The Pro
Joe The China Pro Geoff O’Keeffe September 22, 2020 Jerome and I shared an approach to dealing with the seventy factories and hundreds of owners, managers and developers we were responsible for working with from Shanghai to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh to Manila, Hong Kong to Bangladesh, and all points in between. We believed in … [read more]
Hiroshima
be still be still be Geoff Shōun O’Keeffe August 6th, 2020 On the 75th memorial of the US bombing
Remember when we sat together?
Remember when we sat together? The late afternoon light always softened and faded as the day shifted to evening. Our bodies moved and vibrated, fidgeted and settled, then were still. Our voices rang with endless analog layers and in every timbre and tone. We smelled each other’s perfume, soap and sweat. Our eyes saw depth, … [read more]
The Space Between Before and After
John made a number of beautiful wooden boxes with lids that swiveled from one corner, every one unique, built by his hands, of various hard and soft woods, lovingly finished, each. These boxes were intended to hold ashes, John’s primarily, he told us. When he was dying four years ago he showed us his works-in-progress, … [read more]