Monthly Archives: June 2015

Finally, an Orson Welles Bio on DVD,

Magician: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles, and it’s a very good, well-edited, concise overview of his life and work by Academy Award winner Chuck Workman. Well-worth seeing and worthy of Welles’ genius. Numerous scenes from his films; … Continue reading

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A Veritable Canadian Icon

2006 dust jacketed, flatsigned and United-Order-of-the-Heart-stamped book; Cohen signing above book and a friend stamping to his right Another great show available from Columbia-SONY, 2014 Leonard Cohen’s 3 CD-1 DVD of his entire Live in Dublin concert from 2013. 30 … Continue reading

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Dial-a-Meditation: ‘Basics’ (continued)–part 3

Some of the earliest blog meditations about basic perspectives. From Nov & Dec 2012. **To find an entry, locate a month and year on right-side menu first, then scroll to entry date Epiphany–Nov (2) 2012 A Need for Play–Nov (5) … Continue reading

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Dial-a-Meditation: The Essais of Richard Davies (part 2)

The ‘Basics’ meditations archive continued. Month 3 of the blog. **To find an entry, locate a month and year on right-side menu first, then scroll to entry date. Of Dreams, Dreaming, and the Realization of Dreams (and Desires)–Oct (3) 2012 … Continue reading

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Run the Ridges

And we will run the ridges of our green land Tennessee And we will hide for forty years if that’s what’s meant to be Meant to be, meant to be, meant to be…. –John Stewart, The Kingston Trio (at their … Continue reading

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Dial-a-Meditation: A ‘Basics’ Index (part 1)

From the first two months of the blog. Getting one’s bearings. Very basic frameworks, perspectives, and recurring themes. **To find an entry, locate a month and year on right-side menu first, then scroll to entry date. Individual Process, Briefly— Aug. … Continue reading

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Feeling Lucky Today to Have Outlived

Anne Frank 15 Joan of Arc 19 John Keats 25 Percy Shelley 29 Gericault 33 Mozart 35 Lord Byron 36 Robert Burns 37 Raphael 37 van Gogh 37 Martin Luther King, Jr. 39 Jane Austen 42 Chekhov 44 Oscar Wilde … Continue reading

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Notes from the Garden

The poet is in the garden He has come to hear your confession to grant you absolute pardons He speaks to you in earth-tones many sounding strange to your ears A bird sings of the evergreen Here there is time … Continue reading

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Astral projections

2 players chasing shadows on a dim-lit city street full moon in september night jet above flashing red hooo-fffffff whho-fff poor man’s tennis: father-son no rhyme or reason to our play writing a poem without a net hooo–ffff click<ffff dream: … Continue reading

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Fantasy

You ask for the dream like a child set on ice cream at a Saturday circus You yearn for old calendars, broken clocks & promise to keep your corner clear of webs You want to retell your famous life-story to … Continue reading

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