Write Up The Road’s Blog Posts
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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It appears we’re entering a new phase of the Covid-19 affliction burning through civilization at the current moment in history. We may, albeit reluctantly, have to enter upon another sequestration in order to safeguard lives. May I suggest you take advantage of the short time between grim circumstances suggesting quarantine and actual implementation of same
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. – Herman Hesse
The really valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein Maybe our own intelligence could be paired with intuition for maximum effect.