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If you are the Caretaker... If you are the Caretaker you take care of the manor house. The family who lives here blew out of town in a las...

Incarnation:   "the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form," right, that's the gig. As the Guru said, "Be H...

Dreaming of Goblets of Gold... That seems so unlike me, but it's true, last night I was dreaming of goblets of gold. I woke up confuse...

Yesterday was one of those "Samuel Beckett" kind of days :  “You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.” Yes. Some days it...

Food is medicine.... “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” - Hippocrates Hippocrates seemed like a smart guy. He was ...

If you are Jeff Tweedy , you get to make a recording at your own studio, The Loft in Chicago, you get to play your 1930's era Martin...

"Plunging us into chaos."  Right. Isn't that our Little Baby Man President's brand? "Stocks on track for worst Decemb...

Dogma.  I do my best to avoid dogma. Don't you? I think it's best to experience the world, to see the world first-hand, to be active...

Chaos upon chaos.  Try to make sense of the non-sensical. There are limits to logic, reason, math. Sometimes we need to take chaos in. Let...

"Dear John Q. Public, this is a test, you think this is a Presidency? No, it is not... it's a biblical thing... it's like an Ol...

Yes. Our Little Baby Man President is imploding. The walls are crumbling, the market is tanking, Putin is laughing, Mexico still isn...

Thinking out-loud. Or typing out-loud. Can you reason your way to love? Can you talk yourself into loving something, or someone? Can you t...

Someone asked me what "Roma" (see previous 4 posts) , was about. It's funny. For me it's like trying to sum up what life ...

Yes. No doubt I have my aesthetic  biases & preferences; what's beautiful, what's ugly, what's good, what's bad?  Sure, ...

Yeah, I've been thinking about this "great art thing" (see previous two posts) . I grew up in a family of common folk, folks w...

What does great art (for example, see previous post) ,  do for us? Opens us up to other people's stories, other truths, other realiti...

I haven't seen every movie made this year, 2018. But I am totally confident in saying that Alfonso Cuaron's film "Roma"...

Celebrity Culture slimes us all. It elevates and diminishes, infantilizes and wraps everyone up in tissue-thin bullshit. It's a plague,...

There is the slog... the schlep... the long march... the circuitous route... the lifting... the carrying... the one step after ...

I almost hate to look at the headlines. It is beginning to dawn on me that my species is nowhere near as smart as we think we are. Of course...