Perhaps every writer and artist who read On The Road while coming of age held the knowledge I chose to avoid.
A brother helping me remain in light
My friend’s butt dial was nothing of the sort. Thinking of me, and loving me over the span of decades, he dialed my number and held his smartphone in air, surrounded by thousands of fans, that I might hear the music I love.
Ten things to never say to a new car salesperson
Salespeople are trained to uncover a buyer’s needs, desires and weaknesses. The best salespeople can do all three at the same time by asking probing questions.
The question of an evolving identity made whole by street artists and vandals
Souls get painted over by strangers, family and lovers all the time. We are written on indelibly. Sometimes on purpose. Sometimes by accident.
The warmth of knowing my baseball glove is in the sweater drawer
The love is inexplicable. Yes, it is the single remainder from the love of a game that I didn’t understand at the time. A game that brought tears. A game that brought joy. A game for which I had little talent.
Sonny Rollins standing on the bridge in Giverny
In the early 1960s, later in the evening, when he needed a place to practice his saxophone, myth holds that Rollins would walk the span perfecting his instrument’s voice.
Sitting in front of forever
Picturing Rothko leaning back, smoking a cigarette, while contemplating the work in front of him, suggests a leisure that few artists feel while in the act.
A temple, a church, a synagogue or an artist’s studio?
Usually, the complexity of meaning refers to either darkness or light, in the most absolute sense of each word.
Foghorn Leghorn inside the flower garden of the mind
Old enough to have had a black and white television as a child, I had no idea the Looney Tunes gang could blaze in full color
My first cup of Tibetan butter tea
In reading about Lhasa, the topic of butter tea came up repeatedly. And, since I like both butter and tea, my curiosity was piqued.
Dancing is better with a corn dog in each hand
Corn dogs flew high for three minutes and sixteen seconds. I burned the rule book to the ground. My friends were absorbed by the music.