Jerome and Geoff, Shanghai 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 … [read more]
Narrative
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]
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris April 15, 2019
The following is a story I created, not intended to be considered as history, but rather to make a point. After today’s tragic fire at Notre-Dame, some suggest that, due to inarguable past sins of the Catholic Church and a decided world-wide western bias, perhaps we should not rush to rebuild this iconic cathedral. I … [read more]
This Is All I Need
This Is All I Need A Brief Meditation on Desire and Death For whatever reasons, I don’t have a bucket list of places to go or a list of stuff I want to buy or goals I need to achieve before I die. Perhaps I never did. I mostly always just did the next obvious … [read more]
