Entries by jasonpartin

Mr Homes

You spend your life looking for the Friend When you find him If you find him Will you get that time back? Rumi I hear you paint houses. Jimmy Hoffa

Anne

Like a heartbeat, drives you madIn the stillness of remembering what you hadAnd what you lostAnd what you hadAnd what you lost Fleetwood Mac, “Dreams”

James Ed White

Lord, what fools these mortals be! Puck “Hey, Ken,” I said as Cranky Ken approached with a book in his hand. “Here,” he said, thrusting an old hardback book towards me; it was “The Fall and Rise of Hoffa,” by Walter Sheridan, published in 1972 and including stories about my Big Daddy and Mamma Jean […]

Ed Partin Jr

Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.‘ Matthew 15:3-4 Any internet search today shows that my grandfather was then nationally famous. He was […]

Granny

Your feet are in the mud; to me the mud has become roses. You have mourning; I have feasting and drums. Rumi I searched Wendy’s home for anything I’d like to bring to San Diego, and in my search I stumbled upon a small wooden box engraved “Angel,” the tiny little fluffy dog Wendy had […]

St. Francisville

“Fuckin’ Partin, I should have killed him that night when I had the chance.” Chucky O’Brien, Hoffa’s adopted son, told to Chucky’s adopted son, Harvard law professor and former legislative attorney for President Bush Jr., Jack Goldflake, in 2019’s “In Hoffa’s Shadow.”

Wendy, Part Two

Do you have the patience to waitTill your mud settles and the water is clear?Can you remain unmovingTill the right action arises by itself? Lao Tzu