Hundred Mountain

Let us pause for a moment, those of us of a certain age, and consider. How much things have changed from “Tea for the Tillerman” to iTunes downloads.

A little Neruda is always a lot. Here is the ending third of  “Sonata con algunos pinos” (“Sonata with some pine trees”). You’ll find the full poem in “Extravagaria.” … what justifies not being? where did other people take you? It is good to have a change of clothes of skin of hair of work [...]

Blogging considered as streaking. “I’ve got a blog now, but I suspect they’re becoming like modern poetry: more of us write them than read them.”

“We wear gray in the big meadow and there are three thousand enemy in blue, much cannon and machinery behind them.

“The gypsies don’t clap the rhythm, they applaud it.” ~ Jean Cocteau “Past Tense: The Cocteau Diaries” with a good riff on them, here

I would also recommend knowing a bit more Italian than I did before negotiating tattoo prices in Rome. A tale of three tattoos in Rome in Summer 2008.

In loving memory of my Italian forbears, I offer this YouTube video. I will know I have honored them better when my Italian improves beyond just understanding the curses.

I felt the need to hunt down this quote by Martha Graham today. “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening, that is translated through you into action – and because there is only one of you, in all time, this expression is unique…You have to keep open and aware, directly to the urges [...]

“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points; who whispers as he whispered to me that summer morning..”

Here’s a doorway to some epigrammatic verse, opened again after being shut for several years: