Monthly Archives: July 2017

“Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. (some of my 60+ senior high English publications; writing and editing have long been acts of pattern-thinking, organizing, and consciousness for me)

“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.” —Bird by Bird (Robert Frost’s writing desk in Franconia, N.H., which I visited one Sunday September afternoon in the early 1990s)

“Know thyself.” (along with journal or blog-style writing, an aid to knowing thyself: reflections and selfies; this one from Bighorn Meadows Resort, Radium hot Springs where I’m headed again in September)

7 CDs–all sets recorded live on March 3, 4, 5 & 6, 1991 at the Café Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark. This Universal 2009 set was released as a follow-up to the original 2 CD set. The most amazing, freest-flowing jazz duo ever … Continue reading →

“When money speaks, the truth is silent.”

“Man’s inhumanity to man /Makes countless thousands mourn!” –“Man Was Made to Mourn: A Dirge”

“Common sense is very uncommon.”

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” –speech to Royal College of Surgeons, London, 1923

“I never met the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”