http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kijpcUv-b8M The other day someone shared this great quote from Freddie Mercury that really spoke to me. I've found several versions of the quote. What that means is that what he meant when he wrote whatever it was, and what the listener/reader gets out of it or interprets it as, may [...]
the only advice ever for dealing with jackasses is to ignore them. even when you end up in tears, don't give them that either. sometimes easier said than done. sometimes dealing with jackasses temporarily turns you into one. get up. go on.
I took about a two-week break from working on anything at all writing wise and that was about as much of a break from writing as I could manage. As for what I'm working on, the thing about that is that it doesn't matter, until the work is completed. There are many things that I [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APx2yFA0-B4 One of the most wonderful things within the many fine and good examples that Bruce Lee left us with, is his example of inclusiveness. Despite being met with prejudice throughout his life, he seemed to hold no such feelings in his own heart. He continuously broke with traditions. He fell in and love [...]
Thelxiepeia, poems 2009-2012, Now available on Amazon in paperback. Basquiat…………………………………………………. 6 Thelxiepeia…………………………………………….... 7 Manifest…………………………………………………. 8 Repairs…………………………………………………… 9 The Willow Tree…………………………………………12 Real Myths………………………………………………14 Private Hours……………………………………………15 The Talk Is Savage……………………………………. 17 Miss UnHoly……………………………………………. 19 If We Had These Roses………………………………. 21 Look, Pretty, Stand Still………………………………. 23 Care Full……………………………………………….. 25 Temple Within………………………………………… 27 The Devil Wore Red………………………………… [...]
https://youtu.be/tO9rjBxI1gc https://youtu.be/LZ1M9JSGTLk Currently listening to Jackson Browne, discovering T Bone Burnett, trying to catch up on episodes of the podcast "Cocaine and Rhinestones." Reading "Cotton Tenants: Three Families" by James Agee with photographs by Walker Evans. Here's the synopsis from Amazon, "In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now [...]
I want to say something about this year, about 2017, as we head into the final two weeks of it. The thing about that is, I don't know what I want to say. That being the case, wisdom would seem to dictate that it would probably be better not to say anything. So...anyway... I think, [...]
I've worked hard the last couple of years to get some books published, I'm thinking of them as there were "the first five," and now there is "the magnificent seven." I also have stories in three print anthologies, and I'm going to get those linked up with cover pictures, as well as having been published [...]
During the fall months of 2008 and on into 2009, and on for a while, reality slipped away from me. Amid the avalanche of dissipating solidity descending into complete confusion and chaos of thought, I threw more than twenty years of writing, of work, into a cauldron of flames. Two file boxes of poems, stories, [...]
I watched a documentary last night about Nina Simone, "What Happened, Miss Simone?" I had watched part of this one before and become distracted. "Feeling Good" was the first Nina Simone song that I ever heard and I loved it. I'd been a Billie Holiday fan for years and I thought, how is it that [...]
