Way To Go
Here’s a nice measuring stick, we humans have got so few writ out so clearly:
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, ...
GOOD LUCK TO ALL IN AUSTRALIA'S FIRES
I’ve seen some of the devastating photographs, and after the summer California just went through, I know what these fires can be like.
Please all of you make sure your escape routes are clear and get out in time. Even if the fires are not so close, they can spread in unruly directions, so plan for leaving in case you must.
To all the Australian friends here, the best of luck, our thoughts and…
On The Move....The Road Out!
To all my good friends at RedBubble (and you are legion) my apologies for being more absent than here to comment on your fabulous work. I’ve been able to look but not stay long, no reflection of the joy from seeing the photographs and artwork of the excellent people on these pages.
There have been a lot of ups and downs lately. A very close friend, Deborah Szarkowski Effron, brilliant photog…
Happy New Year, All Ye Artists...Ye Roselipped Maids & Barefoot Lads
Wishing everyone a terrific Christmas and the best of all New Years in 2009…...
We’re all artists here, following one discipline or another to find our way, to find some means of expressing the internal churning that brings on midnight revelations and burning flesh, short-circuited relationships & psychotic episodes that even a mother’s love has trouble forgiving. Thank God we all found ea…
September 11, 2008
Christopher Ewing, fellow RedBubbler & superb photographer, wrote a heart-felt tribute on this day in his RB journal, “How 9/11 changed not only America, but the World”, and I encourage you to read it.
I responded on Chris’s comment page, and (okay it’s so me) my comment was lengthy. Chris made me think about what he’d said as well as what I was feeling. So I decided to put it in my journal, t…
SSGT - New Bubbler
Take a look at some remarkable photographs of Iraq war, with so many of the world’s countries there now, by SSGT. He’s an American Marine, and he’s in battle, and he carries his camera with him….to everyone’s benefit. These are extraordinary photographs and well worth viewing and commenting on. And it’s a ‘real time’ view from the front lines. How incredible that is to me.
This is primo pho…
New Friend on RedBubble
My friend and not-too-distant neighbor, Frank Losik, (FRANK LOSIK) has just joined up and posted his writing. He’s a family therapist in Monterey with a wonderful history of helping people. These are stories I haven’t heard before, and told in an unusual way, all metaphor relating back to our own behavior, our needs and longing. Life’s journey has some clear thinkers that help us all find our w…
Cachagua Fires Contained - 100%
They’re out. We’re in. All evacuees have returned home with their families, animals and surfboards. The sky is blue. Life is good.
I’ve felt like a giant crumb to have vanished from so many friends here for the past month plus, not much time except a fast leap in every now and then, and I miss you one and all. RedBubble has been a terrific place for friendships for me. Please forgive my absenc…
Getting Close, Pyrotechnics, Smoke, & Night Fires
Amazing night. You can now see flames leaping hundreds of feet into the air on the first visible range in Cachagua, from the hill in front of the post office. That’s about 25 miles from town. Worry about the skillful jump ability of flame.
The sun was setting, a massive cloud of smoke over the valley lit bright pink, totally astounding. It’s getting closer.
We now have a full tent camp for th…
Big Sur burning, Smokey the Bear Sutra chant makes rounds
Big Sur is now under mandatory evacuation. It looks like it’s still the worst of the fire, that is, a threat to people and livestock and homes as opposed to pure beautiful wilderness. People are headed to Monterey with their cats and dogs and birds and horses and families to shelter with friends and in the local high schools, etc.
The firemen are acting like they should, bringing bulldozers in…