Sunday, October 12, 2025

Celtic Samhain, Halloween, Superstition, and a Birthday

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      “Write a story for me, for my birthday,” my friend said. … I was looking through old photos, and I came across one that I had ...
Friday, October 3, 2025

When Pygmalion Meets Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated Actress

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  It should have been expected – an AI-generated “actress” has been created. The given name of this un-real creation is Tilly Norwood and ...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Like a June Bug on a Hot Pan

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    The road I took was already taken by many My compass was in my chest And I followed no one For my path came with no cost To ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Not Learning Being In Two Places At Once

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    It is a landscape Where sunsets And sunrises Share The space Of an August Rain   Where Unshaved men And women of...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing (T.S Elliot, Four Quatrets)

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  I went to the funeral of a mentor and friend exactly half a century after we met. At the airport I recalled moments of our working tog...
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Love Is a Rebellious Bird That No One Can Tame (From Habanera in Bizet’s Carmen Opera)

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    It is Saturday and I picked up a book of poetry, as I do most weekends. My dog knows the routine, so he found his spot next to my painti...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

“Le Spleen de Paris”: the Posthumously Published Prose Poems Book of Charles Baudelaire, circa 1869

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    It was a hot weekend in the Arizona. But like in any desert, the nights remain cool allowing for long walks with my dog before sunri...