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and long run, the very best had been the sharing-exchange of our gifts of self to one another with the people closest to us in our lives. (one of many happy moments from the many Scona teacher stags; left to … Continue reading →

“I think I know why the dog howls at the moon.”–Johnny Clegg, “Dela”

(the great English author Aldous Huxley) Happiness is in the imagination. What we perform, is always inferior to what we imagine.–Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.–W. … Continue reading →

“Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket to the moon.”–Merle Shain, Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others “I touch the future. I teach.”–Christa McAuliffe, Aug. 1985 speech “I have everything I need, … Continue reading →

“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.”