Monthly Archives: February 2021

depicting animals cuddling across various kinds and species are a reminder how basic empathy and sympathy are as feeling-forces in Nature. Would that our own species had more and similar natural empathy and sympathy and less trolling, hating, warring, and … Continue reading →

That pure, instrumental music is the most direct, influential, and powerful music communicating immediately and deeply affecting the feelings of people round the world. Without the need for spoken language. Without the need for any advance specialized introduction or training. … Continue reading →

it is vitally important for parents and spouses to have alone time, private time, quiet time, and relaxation time. Time to decompress, reflect, refocus, and plan. In this–sanity, perspective, renewal, personal growth, peace, balance, and personal survival.

In the last two days: recording many of my poems and dubbing my old cassettes of poetry readings and band performances onto computer files and CDs. As well as receiving an e-mail video of different kinds of animals responding to … Continue reading →

1987’s The Lonesome Jubilee by John Cougar Mellancamp. Terrific sound, bare-bones rock with accordion and fiddle accompaniment, a powerful black female backup singer, and poignant social-commentary lyrics about working class and poor people’s lives. “I want to live the real … Continue reading →

Ingmar Bergman’s last film epitomizes much of what this director was all about: feelings, communication, relationships (male-female, father-son, father-daughter, mother-child), and responses to human flaws, failures, and death. It reunites the couple from his acclaimed, intense, exhaustive analysis of male-female … Continue reading →

the things to most remember, treasure, and hang onto are following your bliss, and matters of both soul and spirit–those things that make each of us who and what we essentially are as individuals. Those things which underlie the course … Continue reading →

ought to become another American national observance of the day they nearly lost their democracy, constitution, law and order and were bravely defended by Capitol police, epitomized by Brian Sicknick and others who put their lives and bodies on the … Continue reading →

The great American stage actor Hal Holbrook. Best-known for his many one-man shows as Mark Twain, his performance as Deep Throat in the movie All the President’s Men, his Oscar-nominated performance in Into the Wild, and for the best-ever performance … Continue reading →

who may be feeling incomplete, out of touch with other men, conflicted with themselves and women, or in need of fathering. The informative and supportive 1990 video online, “A Gathering of Men”, a 1 1/2 hr. vid with Robert Bly … Continue reading →