"To create art on the spot. To step forward an express oneself. It always meant taking enormous chances." ~ Ken Burns, Jazz ...
Freedom
Drift
I will unplug, Unwind, untether. I’ll surf the wind, Not the web. I’ll ride a bike. Anywhere. Weed the garden. Prune a pear tree. Walk. Alone. Far. (Source: "Drift", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) The top half of riff on slowing down, pausing. Now, not tomorrow. Because tomorrow never comes. ...
Off to Paddle
Sometimes it is right and good to close the lid, push back your chair, lock the door, and head out onto a slow-flowing stream or lake for a paddle. Tranquil tonic. Solitude. No permission. No regrets. ...
Rucksack
It’s time for a moratorium On worries and procrastination, On moorings and parking meters And slipped opportunities. It’s time for a rucksack manifesto. A few lines from one of my current favorites. It's still a rough, rough draft. I've been dancing with it for longer than almost anything else in this project. I've given up repeatedly, abandoned it, tried to forget about it. But it keeps ...
Rules
"Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see ...
Deadbeat
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. And I the father, for this is no bastard child conceived in passing passion, born in shame, fostered abroad and shunned as a faceless stranger. I’ll claim the fruit of my own seed, nurture and protect it, essay to understand it, forgive it, liberate it and finally – I hope – celebrate it. I've been wrestling with this midlife ode/anti-ode for a ...