Is there any up and down left? Has it not become colder? Have we not killed him and now,——- Shall we console ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games, ought we to have invented? Have we not ourselves become gods? I threw my lantern to the ground. It broke and went out. The…
No, wait! For this story a title with more zip, more punch is needed. Here are some choices. I’ll let you the reader look these over and make a selection, after you have read the New York Times article. Y’all come on down! Winter comes early to Republican red-state-Texas Making promises you can’t keep…
IMAGINING WORLD In my dream, the angel shrugged and said if we fail this time it will be a failure of imagination and then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand. –by Brian Andreas 1994
“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It would have shown the white birches pale and shivering in a sudden ague, and here and there an ash or a sumac burning red, like a hectic spot, where the first frosts…
How would I know Custer’s words? The battle between the US 7th Cavalry and the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes took place 140 years ago. I was born 140 years late to hear what if anything he might have said, had I been there. Additionally only Indians walked away from that fight alive. …
Spent a troubled night, awakening at intervals. Dreams are unaccountable. The recurring dream included several lyric lines from Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne”. Not an unpleasant dream for me, I like the song. The alarm sounded at 6AM. A few minutes later, hardly awake, I heard from NPR that Trump’s son-in-law is angling for a role…
Nicolaus Copernicus surmised that the earth rotated around in sun in about 1514, and no one killed him for thinking that. He lived another twenty-nine years and died at the age of seventy. Throughout those final twenty-nine years, his revolutionary description of outer space mostly seemed an unprovable thought experiment that had the ancillary…
Twenty four hours ago I was horribly ill. Four or five sessions of throwing up, and then came the fever. At some point the thought occurred to me, –so this is how we die. I did not dwell on the thought. The coming of dawn always makes everything better. I had several emails and…
A few years ago I fed my interest in the American Civil War by a lot of reading, and by visiting a number battlefields. I have more than a shelf of books. I’ve spent time at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Fort Fisher. In that day the preparation for battle meant forming a “line of battle,”…
Yes, it’s a long tune, at 5 minutes. Did you notice the organ track, the musical pattern that opens and runs the entire length of the piece? Townsend was influenced by the philosophy of Meher Baba, Inayat Kahn, and composer Terry Riley. Townsend sought to replicate a theory of reality as harmonious, with the…
