Stripes
This Song’s For You by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser May 2015) “The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.” Pema Chödrön...
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(This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser May 2015) “There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.” Stephen Stills I have my piano tuned once a year. I used to have...
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Compound drawing by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser May 2015) “Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and...
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My Grandmother Goody with Red Skelton and William Bendix (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser June 2015) “The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of...
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36 & COUNTING painting by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser June 2015) “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” Hal Borland Nature brought us a...
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If My Heads Sinks Beneath The Sea painting by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser June 2015) “Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter...
View ArticleTrust
Question & Reply painting by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser June 2015) “You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” Anton Chekhov...
View ArticleWe’re In It
We’re In It ⓒ Copyright David Jouris (Presidio Dance Theatre) (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser July 2015) “So make sure when you say you’re in it but not of it, you’re not...
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Three Skips To Each Stone painting by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser July 2015) “In the San Joaquin Valley, pumping now exceeds natural replenishment by more...
View ArticleCherry Tree Myth
But She Had Wings painting by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser July 2015) “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”...
View ArticleBrutalizing Greece
Passion Play painting by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser July 2015) “Greece should go back to a national currency to have more autonomous decision-making with...
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(This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser July 2015) “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx I recently got a letter from...
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Escape photograph by Todd (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser August 2015) Monday. July 27, 2015. I’m coming home from Fort Bragg, heading south on Highway One in my little old...
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Django On Todd photo by Marcia Sloane (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser August 2015) “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” Albert Schweitzer...
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Bird Mansion photo by Todd (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser August 2015) “Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” Mark Twain Something marvelous strange...
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At the Point of Discovery (Zhukov Dance Theatre) © 2012 David Jouris / Motion Pictures (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser August 2015) “A true friend is someone who thinks you’re...
View ArticleIda Four
(This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser September 2015) Two hours into tonight’s Open Mike at Club Muse, a dumpy old pub on San Pablo Avenue in Richmond California, most of the...
View ArticleGiants & Dodgers
Giants Hardware photo by David Jouris (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser September 2015) “The truth is not ashamed of appearing contrived.” Isaac Bashevis Singer In my dotage I...
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Homage to the Kumulipo (Na Lei Hulu) © 2012 David Jouris / Motion Pictures (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser September 2015) Number of people displaced internally in Syria: 6...
View ArticleGanesha
Ganesha photo by Marcia Sloane (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser September 2015) “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”...
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