Monthly Archives: April 2020

Early this morning, I went back in time to a 1955 Argo (UK) LP (now on CD) that I first encountered 53 years ago in my first year of university in 1967 at the formative age of 18, which forever … Continue reading →

Personal health and survival are fundamentally core. You’re either healthy and here. Or not.

For the most part, the Classics Illustrated comic covers appealed to boy readers’ piqued curiosity and invited questions like “What the heck is goin’ on here?”, making kids plunk down their 15 cents (regular comics cost 10) to find out. … Continue reading →

These comics were around from the 1940s to about 1969. They were part of many North American boys’ lives from about ages 8 to 14. I experienced them personally from about 1958 to 1964 when I had a modest collection. … Continue reading →

(War Time) There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in the tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery … Continue reading →

“I dwell in possibility.” –Emily Dickinson “I am large, I contain multitudes.” –Walt Whitman “We can never have enough of nature.” –Henry David Thoreau “You can never step in the same river twice.” –Heraclitus “Money is not required to buy … Continue reading →

(a splendid Victoria moment of being) Life is one long near-death experience. You haven’t, always, experienced everything. Poetry remains the most conscious, concise, aesthetic use of language. The quiet desperation of the multitudes is physical, mental, and soul-related. Objects often … Continue reading →

Make America (Brain) Dead

Hands-down winner of the 2019-20 Heartless Big Brother Award. He is the worst Premier AB has ever had. A veritable evil tyrant w/o an iota of empathy, conscience, or mercy.

The Happy Skeleton who mindlessly worships Big Don onstage at his reality show/tv press conferences. Her demeanor and sick smile of joy at being so honored to be Don’s new/latest point woman and to bring Americans such good news is … Continue reading →