a clean and well lighted place

 a clean and well lighted place

fiction

edward w pritchard

All persons experience similar emotions as they age it seems. Two renditions of loneliness I like are Hemingway's short story " a clean and well lighted place" and "Night hawks" by Edward Hopper available for viewing at one of my favorite museums the Chicago art museum. Both describe the existential loneliness  and anxiety of aging.  Sometimes I like to listen to " love dream" by Franz Liszt known to the properly educated as " Liebestraum".

or

you can hear the distant 4am train, listen to public radio and stare at a bright white computer screen. 

if it's not winter cold, crack the window to hear the train better and wish you were on it headed for Santa Fe, New Mexico to pal around with the native Americans and buy an ornamental exquisitely designed pot for storing healthy ancestral food in.