On the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge…
…in the Soniran Desert, two hours west of Phoenix. Easily one of the most beautiful and serene places I’ve ever been.
Read MoreReading Rebecca Solnit…
…a woman who writes poetry as prose, a San Francisco and NYC urbanite who in one of her essays tells of discovering country music, writes of solitary drives across the West, of the aloneness of the road and of wandering....
Read MoreWhat I miss at 71…
…is the ineffable anticipation of the young: the restlessness, the aliveness, the curiosity and sense of things waiting to be done, dreams to be chased, stories to be lived, an unknowable future, weightlessness. And the...
Read MoreThere are moments that make being human worthwhile…
…like tonight, sharing a bottle of 18-year-old Scotch with four good friends. When I’m gone, I’d like to think that this will be one of their memories of me.
Read MoreI never seem to get the memo…
So, I’m at a huge sidewalk art fair in downtown Madison, Wisconsin…many blocks long, booths down both sides of wide, closed streets circling the capitol building. I’m walking and walking, looking at art and...
Read MoreChet Baker sings…
If you can listen to him alone, in the dark, at two o’clock in the morning, and not cry in your whiskey, then either there’s something wrong with you, or you’ve made all the right decisions in your life....
Read MoreI can’t imagine he’s alive now…
Thinking about friends and near friends, and a few who never would have become friends. But time goes by for them all, just the same. .
Read MoreDéjà vu all over again – Putin in Ukraine
Russia’s unprovoked and ongoing invasion of Ukraine is a lesson on many levels. The innumerable interpretations by any number of experts, the news coverage of every slant, and the public reaction…all are informative...
Read MoreWhat does it mean to be human?
Reflecting on my latest read here, by Oliver Sacks, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For Hat.” Sacks, a neurologist working in Beth Abraham’s chronic care facility the Bronx, presents brief case studies of...
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