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  • I wondered as I wandered…

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    … and what shall we say to the woman who’s not impressed by a sky full of light, and well-crafted clouds… who moans at the cruel Fate maliciously denying her a day of sunshine? Will she be any the more impressed by an imaginative etude, as the objects of her scorn are likened to ethereal billows of life itself; eerily suspended above our heads; and so, so...

    May 14, 2017
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  • On the multiplicity of languages…

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    Languages are fascinating systems… Puzzles, really… With a language, one begins to think in concrete steps. Steps that can be transferred to another person, with more or less complete understanding. We can now begin to explore… ourselves and our environment. We can begin our quest for understanding, and truth. Without a language… well…

    June 6, 2016
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  • Intimacy…

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    The art of Music is one of intimacy. Nothing more… nothing less… It is two or more people agreeing to bare their souls… to go where the Music would have them go, regardless of the space they might be individually inhabiting at the moment. Music is the willingness to open yourself to the vagaries of the unknown. It’s the exploration of humanity, by those who are...

    May 10, 2016
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  • Illumination…

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    You cannot receive a personalized, custom-fit illumination from, or for, another. General outlines…? Certainly. A system by which you may begin to explore the universe…? Absolutely! But a one-size fits-all suit of armor, that is nonetheless tailored for your comfort? I have yet to see such an article of clothing… Or the tailor worth his salt who would claim to be able to fashion such...

    March 7, 2016
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  • Music… still…

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    Why, you may ask, do I harp on and on about the subject of Music… The answer is simple. (And because the answer is so deceptively simple, I suspect the answer just might true.)

    January 5, 2016
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  • Again… Music!

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    Music possesses only the pure perfection of fact – a fact rising in rhythms of sound. Rhythms which seem inhuman, because they’re essentially free from desire, fear and distress. Free from all the visions of glory, honor or the longing we impose upon music’s facade. Free from the emotional baggage, without which we cannot listen to any merely human music. For whatever remains when the merely human has been stripped from...

    December 27, 2015
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    Music, Philosophy, Quotes
  • The communication of Power…

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    “Is it not possible still to hold that poetry is power communicated by words in verse, and prose is power communicated by words not in verse?”* And what then may be said of Poetry’s sister energy, Music? That it’s the communication of power is undeniable; but through what medium? Sound? Notes? That’s too simplistic. To define music as merely notes organized to your liking is to equally...

    August 21, 2015
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  • Zen and the art of Photography…

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    I’m a hunter… Not of animals. Nor of people. I hunt photos. I venture into the wild: whether that wild be Mother Nature, the streets of Beijing or the confines of a live event somewhere, and stalk my photo.

    March 10, 2015
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  • Light, Part II…

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    It’s been said that “… to light a candle is to cast a shadow.” Ah, but must it always be so? What if the problem is not in the paucity of the flame, but in our very understanding of light? What if we could create a light such that all shadows everywhere were banished? What if, instead of a lighting a candle to drive...

    November 18, 2014
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    Stream of Consciousness
  • Windows

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    Literature and poems, and music, and indeed all the arts, are best served when used as windows – into other souls and other realms, into other minds and other cultures – into universes not of your design. But what’s most important is that you not seek your own reflection. You must look through them… away from yourself, and towards that mysterious other. For what can even the...

    October 25, 2014
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    Musings

Poetical Nothings…

December 18, 2014

Vessels of Admiration

  Would you have poetry in your life? Then you must become such an object of wonder, 
that a...

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December 14, 2014

It Was You…

  I first saw you the other morning in a pedestrian tunnel, Striding; purposeful, compelled, as all of us...

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December 5, 2014

Hymn of Pan

  I sang of the dancing stars, I sang of the daedal* earth, And of heaven, and the giant...

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November 22, 2014

A Terrible Good…

The following is a poem I wrote some time ago, in the style of a Cento; which is a form...

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Most Recent Posts…

The night sky…

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… somewhere in the backwoods of New York state… Well, I mean… I know where I took the shot… But if I tell all you guys, then it’d just...

July 13, 2018
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Photography

Not Boone…

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… but one of a large number of elephants being used as tourist bait, in the city of Ayutthaya, the former capital of the kingdom of Siam… now known...

July 3, 2018
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Absurd, Photography

Her name is ‘Boone’…

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… and she lives in Thailand, somewhere around Chiang Mai… I had gone for the typical elephant ‘encounter’. You know; the typical touristy thing. A little elephant watching, a...

June 23, 2018
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The people who still…

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  … call this is a “Christian” act tend to drive those who think it a reprehensible appropriation of religion for selfish and immoral purposes somewhat insane… Your mileage...

June 16, 2018
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Absurd

Lot’s of color about…

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Just not a whole lot of clear sky to go along with it… So, here we are, smack-dab in the middle of the height of galaxy-spotting season… astronomically-wise speaking…...

June 6, 2018
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… but not really feeling it., Photography

Eternally yours…

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A view form a hill just north of the Forbidden City, in Beijing, China. From Jingshan Park, if memory serves… This is a view of the north gate… in...

May 26, 2018
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An Appreciation, Photography
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Surrealist Prattle…

Dear John, So, there I was… deep in the heart of the Amazon, caught-up in a towering struggle of the intellect with a geographically confused polar bear and a...

February 10, 2015
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Just One Thing, or Two…

They were a family act… There wath the Thing and the Thong, as well as their lether known thiblings, Thung and Thang, who were known to lay down a wickedly funky back-beat,...

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The First Planetary Constitution

A lethargy has set in these days. A lassitude has wrapped itself around my shoulders, like a heavy winter shawl. A piece of clothing once referred to as a...

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Philosophy 101, Pt. I

In an opinion piece in the December 8th edition of the NY Times, entitled “Know Thyself – Really”, a philosopher named Quassim Cassam from the UK goes to some...

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HELLOOoooOO, HALLOWEEN

The only photograph thought to exist, of the creature formerly known as: Snoddly Thumpernickel A SYLVAN TALE OF HORROR An original fantasy in long form It occurred back in...

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