Yeats said that “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” Anyone else thinking, besides how right on he was, Maud Gonne? From a fragile memory: That the night come She lived in storm and strife Her soul had such desire for what proud death...
Monthly Archives: February 2010
After Circe
My friend Virg took me to the Tin Angel to listen to a singer she liked. All around people were talking. It felt like we were all creating a background from which the singer could base her performance. So many people here but only small groups knowing each other. We formed little islands...
Nikos, happy b day man!
February 18th was the birthday of: Nikos Kazantzakis, born in Heraklion in what is now Greece (1883). He is most famous as the author of Zorba the Greek (1946). But he also write The Odyssey, A Modern Sequel in verse.
twenty years a’wandering
An odyssey is a long series of wanderings. Twenty years is a very long time. Even when I was a kid I thought, “What a long trip” the O man took. To give it some perspective, going with the family for a Saturday afternoon drive, eating dinner out and coming home at night felt...
from Heavy Cream
Been sick. Went driving to Red Bank for heavy cream. Had some heavy cream thoughts come to me as I was listening to Ferron. She kills me. She tears me apart. Why is it we say these things when beauty enters us? Does it break our sky? Our are we so dry. She...
Nic on notice
With humor as a backdrop, the “memoir” style narrative will feel familiar to those that have read contemporary writers in search of self and soul. What we leave behind in the dark of our minds and histories can boomerang back through our psyches. All you need is a catalyst, or a home made bomb....
Hold onto your desires. Have faith in yourself. Keep your pace. And mind the distance.
You have to find a way into the woods. You need a door. Synchs can be a way in. One layer followed deeply will tell everything. You’ll be hooked into the trip before you know it.
keep on reeling in the real world
All journeys have their starts and stops. You have to take a rest now and then, fill the water bottles. Eat. Sleep a little. Even dream a little to get those nourishing REMs. REM sleep is to the brain what M&M’s are to the person craving sugar, just the right sort of nutrient to...
starts and stops
I never realized that I was addicted to nicotine. One of the only ways that I could get past the difficult beginning of quitting was observing. They say the observer changes what is observed so I’m willing to take full responsibility for myself. Especially under these circumstances. I did the journey. I found some...
the start of a new journey
Quitting smoking isn’t entirely about a journey through the land of withdrawal as I had initially thought. Sure you get further away from the influence of Nic down the road. You also get to see who you are along the way. It’s easy to hang your focus up on the wrong nail. Writing about...