Known as the John Lennon Wall which used to have beautiful graffiti… now it is just graffiti…but still colorful… : ) And this… And Prague from an overlook spot One of my favorite restaurants here in Old […]
“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into ‘another reality.’ This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating […]
“The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building” said the architect Louis Kahn. But some days while walking in Prague I wonder if the Sun was made for Prague or perhas it […]
Woke up thinking about Toni Morrison’s novel Paradise. This excerpt. Only the brilliant Toni Morrison can put it this way…brilliant because she says it however she wants to say it… Here: Let me tell you about love, that silly […]
Dogfish Some kind of relaxed and beautiful thing kept flickering in with the tide and looking around. Black as a fisherman’s boot, with a white belly. If you asked for a picture I would have to draw a smile under […]
This is beautiful. It is not only beautiful but it is aloe vera for my bewilder-burnt writer’s skin. Yet another sign—at this point I am finally admitting to the Universe: I am stuffed! I get it!—for my WIP MS (work-in-progress […]
June 1st: a cavernous new moon … The Freedom of the Moon I’ve tried the new moon tilted in the air Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster As you might try a jewel in your hair. I’ve tried it fine with […]
…checked out this entire poem today after I saw a woman with a tattoo before going to Marco Rojas yoga class which said “I will wade out…” Although I am familar with quite a bit of E.E. Cummings’ poetry […]
“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively […]
Came across a really cool artist and just drooled over her work. I didn’t take many photos. She gave my mother and I a gift just for stopping by: a very unique ceramic key chain. More information about the work […]
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it […]
I decided it was only fitting to share some quotes from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham after I wrote about my ‘small’ journey “back to the Moon and Sixpence“. “Why should you think that beauty, which […]
from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters To A Young Poet (1903-1908) People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold […]
Grateful for the words of Jack Kerouac on this Still Sunday night in New York City, another log to keep the fire burning. PAX I demand that the human race ceases multiplying its kind and bow out I advise […]