Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
What We Always Knew
~~~~~ “How can I move forward, when I don’t know which way I’m facing?” John Lennon These words, so true, set my heart racing. With all I’ve learned, know how to do, and cool and useful stuff I can make, why never have I felt comfortable with life, or even the direction I should take? […]
Paranoia Will Destroya
~~~~~ Strange, disturbing and unnatural, the sight I witnessed earlier today, two people, women, sitting outside, talking in the old-fashioned way. No phones, smart or dumb, no tablets, no pads, no games, no e-readers, could I detect anywhere. Should I go and warn our fear-filled leaders? Anyone not plugged in twenty hours per day might miss […]
Along Your Merry Way
~~~~~ In the deepest darkest depths of night, when all your thoughts shriek danger, fright. When evil looms within your sight, Dawn will come. When wicked winter winds into your marrow bite, storm-dark clouds bring sleet, snow, ice, till you can’t fight, and every day you live feels black as night, Spring will come. When […]
Stan and Ollie ~ the Movie
~~~~~ I’ve just seen Stan and Ollie, and some scenes were jolly. It’s sad, sweet, life complete with ups and down it’s replete. I was sad, when it disappeared, no local venues, forever I feared. Please go, if too young to know. It’s rich; its loss will be your woe. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence […]
Too Late Considered
~~~~~ Home Complex confusing and contentious conversations may prevail, when sundry family members to the wide world do disperse. Traveling from home-based roots, trekking far beyond the pale. lessons learned young may not survive from cradle to hearse. Or lessons taught are planted deep, rooting values far too well. When elders change their diet, cultivating […]
Anthem in Black and Blue
~~~~~ Watching the blue of heaven fall, neon hue slipping down the wall. Canvas flags flutter, angel wings reflecting the glory of the sound. You wonder about divine choirs Unsure of what they might sing? As names and voices are shared. This magic of a sacred moment, renders our songs celestial fair, with power that […]
Life Courageous
~~~~~ What gifts given, received would, within my words, sing Tripping lightly from my brain, my heart, my tongue Able to express the subtle hopes of anything and everything The true name of all the life and death I live among Would my hearing need to be honed so fine I’d hear the stars in […]
What Need?
~~~~~ I heard a question most recently, which, I must say puzzled me. Seriously, someone asked, you see, what do we have any need, jeez, for tigers to walk among the trees? And while I pondered, I realized, I could never, ever compromise. So, seriously, I ask you now, why, what need have tigers wandering […]
This, Too, Shall Pass
~~~~~ What distinguishes, creates demarcation between living and life? Can they be divided or shared, like pieces of pie cut with a knife? Or. only the viscera of being alive, breathing and eating and shit. Simply work, chores, needful daily obligations; that cannot be it. In relationships you always hear such a lot of talk […]
Beautiful Dreamers
~~~~~ Are you liberal, conservative, radical, stoic, centrist, anarchist, green? You can fill in the blanks I’ve missed. Maybe you want to bring back the Wobblies or worship the sun. What you label yourself is much less important than what you believe. Can you tell me why you believe, what you believe and why […]
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