Monthly Archives: February 2014

Glasses cleaning cloths and glasses case. I spent a lot of Saturday afternoons with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Roadrunner and the Coyote. They have stayed with me longer than any other cartoon characters–Mickey excepted. The great Mel Blanc voices and Chuck … Continue reading →

1955 paperback edition, flatsigned by Arthur Miller (received today–full moon Valentine’s Day 2014). The modern play I  taught in English 30 (gr. 12), most years going back to my student teaching round in 1971-72. Most recently, the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman … Continue reading →

“I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it’s a very deep matter.” –Alice Childress, Interviews with Contemporary Women Playwrights “Love between women is seen as a paradigm in love between equals, … Continue reading →

“You can never step in the same river twice.” “All is flux, nothing stays still.” Our modern preoccupation with process and processes owes a great debt to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus (600-540 B.C.?) He was absolutely correct–nothing stays the same; … Continue reading →

And recurringly, a great self-actualization and effortless transcendence via language, imagination, curiosity, freedom, and leisure.

(my earliest expression for ‘breakfast’) The morning paper delivered to the door. And Chilean blueberries and Ecuador bananas on cereal. Thus, the world comes to me despite the bleak local weather.

Looking back as an only child of poor working-class parents, I was left, largely, to play on my own with few toys, to make up my own fun, play, and worlds. My imagination started early from being left with an old … Continue reading →

(“Glad Am I”–selfie signed sketch by and of Dean-o, alias Daddio in Spiritus) Remembering Dean Morrison McKenzie (June 15, 1940-Feb. 4, 2013)                        We will not meet his like and greatness again. “My friend, your gloomy song must end.”–Dean, “Chinook”

“Personally, broadly, and imaginatively speaking, what are the possibilities for me today? the future?”   “I dwell in possibility.”–Emily Dickinson “A man can do all things if he will.”–Leon Battista Alberti

Jean-Paul Sartre, the key French Existential philosopher, correctly stated that life is mainly and ultimately an individual matter, even if ‘we make it up as we go’. He’s right that, over time, we largely exist and, in reaction to this … Continue reading →