Monthly Archives: January 2019

or what’s a meta-phor? (great reading and resource for poets and lovers of the Word)

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more hopeful: they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.” –Luther Burbank “Earth laughs in flowers.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson “The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. “People … Continue reading →

Astrud Gilberto was a Brazillian housewife, but veteran sax player Stan Getz suggested she sing some English lyrics on the Getz/Gilberto jazz album, which became one of the most popular jazz albums of all time along with Dave Brubeck’s Time … Continue reading →

Death Is Nothing At All By Henry Scott-Holland Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you … Continue reading →

I will miss his smile and good ole boy/aw shucks persona. A likable guy on screen in his best, typical work.

His classic 1968 solo recital, Alone, on CD. One of the most beautiful jazz piano albums ever recorded. Highly recommended for the listener soul.

(Pre-school kids need guidance, exploration, freedom, process, and books more than ever before) ……………………….. …that preaches that buying a Volvo is a sure-fire way for becoming an individual in today’s crazy mixed-up world. There are many good things that have … Continue reading →

in 1907’s classic The Secret Agent, with the botched anarchist bomb attempt on Greenwich Observatory, was, ironically, the successful taking out of the equally iconic Twin Towers during 9/11 a century later. Like Orwell, Conrad was one of the two greatest twentieth-century … Continue reading →

and folded, first and foremost, like a cheap lawn chair in its surrender to technology and The Machine. These latter two are, along with tyrannical widespread political correctness, the main limited/limiting agendas that now make up and direct most of … Continue reading →