Write Up The Road’s Blog Posts
Original title: Es prohibido traer este poema al bano durante horas de trabajo Art said to Beauty when they first met “Honey, your daddy’s a thief.” Beauty was all “Whachyou mean my daddy’s a thief? My daddy ain’t no thief.” Art was all “Honey, your daddy stole the light right out of […]
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Most people have a preference when it comes to the music they enjoy listening to, whether in the car, beside their bed at night or during the work day in the home office. Does your taste fit well with your Sun sign? Aries: Marches, martial music and lots of percussion likely ring your chimes –
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high and you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is strange
My friends Timothy D. Brady and Terri Jenkins-Brady had started a publishing company, Write Up The Road, and offered to publish a book of my poetry. They designed the book and in September of 2005, Simpatico Patio! became my first published book, and yet it is the only book of mine still needing digitalization as
Of course, Boomers aren’t supposed to be old enough to know about these things – but most of us do. Simply put, a Victory Garden was planted, cared for and weeded, grown and likely canned or preserved by average folks working quietly in their own backyard. Like much of the war effort, common people had
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Some stuff that’s been informing me: Informed from Bomb Magazine “You have these moments in history, whether it’s Paris or New York, when things can happen. It’s not for me to decide what young people will do, or what the art world’s going to be. It’s like what music is, what music was. What painting
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Be a lamp, Or a lifeboat, Or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Rumi Instead of reading my conjectures this week, use your heart as balm for someone else’s pain. MZ
“There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.” – William James
James Baldwin brought me to Norman Mailer. Per James Baldwin they were friends. From The Naked and the Dead: “The only thing to do is get by on style.” The real time of The Naked and the Dead is interesting enough. If it were without the flashbacks, the mini bios in between live action sequences,
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“Everything has to be rethought.” So painfully true in today’s oddity that passes for our everyday life. We can devise intentional communities, with neighbors and co-workers intermingled in housing, work/make space, daily chores and even a sustainable and supporting farm, so that all inhabitants eat well and have meaningful work. We can rebuild cities or
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