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All this shit people write about sticks and stones might break your bones but words can never hurt you is so far from the truth. Words are dangerous. Words are powerful. Words bring down governments, words written down forged religions, civilizations. Who said words can’t hurt you? Mein Kampf? That caused plenty of death, pain […]
MoreI read Patti Smith’s tome on writing a while back. Devotion is a lovely short book, on beautiful paper, in gorgeous typeface and bound in a way that makes you want to hold it. She was writing about something precious to her, and that precious something deserved a satisfyingly thoughtful and pretty vehicle. Patti on […]
MoreWho anointed Basho with curses of wandering, Who bade him lay down in fields all flowering. Who commanded him sleep while sakura blossomed, Who told him to wait winter out while spring it floundered? Who gave voice to the plover, the keening of the loon? Who invited him to stare into darkness only to find […]
MoreIt is one of those days. Miles Davis playing some reedy notes, wailing at me, phone calls going wrong, people calling me old, or commenting on the fact I have an accent, or reading about anti Asian sentiment in my beloved San Francisco. I appear to have irritated the Boy somehow, and he is staring […]
MoreWe zig zagged our way up the I5 from northern California. This was a task because Billy refused to drive through Klamath falls, instead heading out for the coast, driving a circle around it and his various family members within it. We crossed the California Oregon border on Highway 101, hurtling past giant redwoods, hokey […]
MoreLove in the time of corona virus is hard enough. Everybody is forced simultaneously closer together with their immediate family for longer periods of time, whilst the minor cast in your own personal tragicomedy is cast out to a six foot perimeter, thus being both suffocating and lonely at the same time. A disastrous combination. […]
MoreWe got lost somewhere around Los Gatos. The kind of lost you can get when you navigator has no idea how roads work in the USA, when you have no GPS, you are using the 2015 KOA brochure road maps as your only guide, and there is a shocking lack of pruning around signs in […]
MoreEverybody needs the right pair of dark glasses. People have things to hide. Baggage. Crows feet. Dilated pupils. Pin prick pupils. A black eye…or two. Yes everybody needs the right pair of dark glasses. My last pair were too big, they kept falling down my nose, a situation made untenable by wearing a mask. They […]
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