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Top improv comedian of all time. Brilliant imagination. He could be or imagine anything, anyone.

I stand here dazzled with my heart in flames at this world of wonders, world of wonders, world of wonders, world of wonders…“ (Bruce Cockburn–Canada’s top folk-singer, folk-songwriter, and folk-guitarist of all time)

beyond the uselessness of rush-hour traffic, meetings, the lies of others, the pretence that one’s job is essential and defines one’s life and the many sacrifices made for a buck. To be owned by the machines, the failing system. The … Continue reading →

is easily the most limited and limiting factor in people’s lives. No fear is worse than irrational, ego-based, self-imposed fear. “A man can do all things if he will.”–Leon Battisa Alberti (as demonstrated by Roger Ebert’s life after his jaw … Continue reading →

You ask for the dream like a child set on ice-cream at a Saturday circus You yearn for old calendars, broken clocks and promise to keep your corner clear of webs You want to retell your famous life-story to poets … Continue reading →

And then there are the best moments, the magical ones, when dream and reality fuse and one cannot tell the one from the other, when dreams do, indeed, come true for a period of time. All suddenly becomes wildly and … Continue reading →

“And then–I introduce them to Harvey. And he’s bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And–when they leave, they leave impressed.”                                              “Ah–well, some people are blind. That’s very often brought to my attention.”                    -Elwood P. Dowd (in Mary Chase’s … Continue reading →

(BTW/ highly recommended–the current run of Shaw’s St. Joan at Studio Theatre directed by 30-year-director Micheline Chevrier.) Joan is very much a reminder of what was possible for remarkable young women of the 1400s, as well as the limits and … Continue reading →

(from The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age) -Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril. -Serious reading is above all an agency of self-making. -Syntactic masonry is already a dying … Continue reading →

“O for a life of sensations!”–John Keats E-communication (whether by phone or computer) can certainly be very powerful, intimate, and connective, though like most things, it has its limits and limitations. I will say that–as evidenced in/by this blog–words, feelings, … Continue reading →