I've just noticed that my third boob — a surplus nipped areola, smaller, less pigmented, lower, left of center, roughly midway between east tit and belly button — is almost gone. Vanishing from neglect, I suspect, or maybe just obscured by “the beard on my belly”, dubbed such by my nephews a dozen years ago. Yes, I just shared the first fifteen lines of a riff on my third breast. True. The poem. ...
Invention
"Invention, the spontaneous generation of new rules, is central to art." ~ John Gardner ...
U-Curve, Roller Coaster, Adventure
Optimistic words in the Harvard Business Review about the midlife crisis phenomenon (or mid-career crisis) from Hannes Schwandt, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University’s Center for Health and Wellbeing. While a mid-career crisis can be a painful time in life, it can also be an opportunity to reflect and to reevaluate personal strengths and weaknesses. Whether you ...
Muhammad Ali on Age
"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are." ~ Muhammad Ali ...
Gesamtkunstwerk
Gesamtkunstwerk? Gesundheit! I'll pass on poetry for this afternoon's look at Gesamtkunstwerk. It's tough enough to splutter off the tongue, much less massage into melody. Ever interested in matters curatorial, I recently discovered Swiss art curator, critic and historian Hans-Ulrich Obrist who is currently working as the Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in London. My ...
Protean
"A chameleon," I explained with a smile, as high above Paris as one generally gets for appetizers and cocktails. Excepting the silly Tour Montparnasse, of course. The mother of my friend –– not quite a girlfriend, but an attractive, charming young lady who distracted me briefly at the tail end of my twenties –– was shocked. A chameleon, she assured me without wavering even out of politeness, is ...