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Olden Days
Still I’m Still Here painting by Nolan Winkler A friend recently (2018) sent me an article about a small vacant lot zoned for a single-family dwelling in Palo Alto, California, just a little plot of...
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Democracy
Headlands and Sky photo by Ian of Zo “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself.” Conan Doyle In 1972 I was living in a twelve-person commune in Santa Cruz, part of the commune movement that sprung...
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Person
sharp photo by Max Greenstreet When I taught writing, long ago, one of the most illuminating exercises I gave my charges was to have them write a little something in First Person, and then rewrite...
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Seals
Tilly, Molly, and Flynn photo by Todd Harbor seals have spotted coats in shades of white, silver-gray, black, or dark brown. They grow to six feet in length and weigh up to three hundred pounds. Males...
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Hey Baby
Petit point for Night Train cover by D.R. Wagner “Listen to the wind as it blows through the trees, listen to her and listen to me, listen to your heart and listen to your brain, listen to the sweet...
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Haircuts
Before the Cut photo by Marcia Sloane “You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery Today, the first of April, Easter, 2018, no...
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Work Surfaces
“There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.” Stephen Stills I’ve been reading Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s autobiography Dreaming of Lions. Near the beginning of her memoir, she...
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Be Good To Yourself
Tea Is Sucha Comfort painting by Nolan Winkler “The writer of any work, and particularly a nonfiction work, must decide two crucial points: what to put in and what to leave out.” Annie Dillard Twenty...
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Little Bit Of Talent
“Japanese psychologists claim they have taught pigeons how to tell a Picasso from a Monet with 90 per cent accuracy. However, the birds were not able to tell a Cezanne from a Renoir.” Ivan Weiss and...
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Mirror Neurons
New Reading Glasses photo by Todd I was sitting in the Mendocino Taqueria waiting for my tacos when a man and woman came in, the woman carrying a three-month-old baby boy who was being fussy and...
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Meaningful Life
Defer Bucking Logs photo by Todd “There is the wisdom of all-accomplishing action, in which speed does not have to be included in one’s working situation, but things fall into your pattern.” Chögyam...
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Opening Words
Forest Rhododendron photo by Todd “When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.” Carl Jung I like to write letters to friends and to artists and writers and movie...
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Minus Tide
Big River Seals photo by Todd Marcia and I met Sally and Molly at Big River Beach for the extraordinary minus tide on Friday morning—Sally our human friend, Molly a Golden Retriever dedicated to...
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Morning Coffee
Blessed Brew painting by Nolan Winkler “Get out those coffee beans and grind’em just so, make us both a cuppa real good joe.” from Todd’s song Real Good Joe I was grinding coffee beans this morning,...
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Old Perry
Paloma photo by Todd “The backers accept that they don’t know what they are going to get.” Mike Leigh Forty years ago, I wrote a short story called Old Perry. My literary agent, the late great Dorothy...
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Cambridge
I Must Go Into the Sea Again painting by Nolan Winkler Christine, the most excellent gluten-free baker of Mendocino, delivered some bread recently and mentioned she’d just returned from Boston where...
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Guitar Porn
music sex love drawing by Todd “The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.” Lou Reed I recently started playing the guitar again after a ten-year hiatus, and after some weeks of aching...
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Rebirth
Outside My Office Window A few weeks ago, the large four-year-old doe with a nest in a remote corner of our property sauntered by the house followed by her two fawns—our first glimpse of her babies....
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Summertime
Summertime photo by Todd Marcia and I walked into town via the beach on Saturday, the most summery day of the 2018 Mendocino summer so far, warm and sunny with only a slight breeze blowing in from the...
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Centered Gull
Gull Capture photo by Todd In the novel I’m writing, one of my characters says, “I don’t believe in luck.” She doesn’t explain why she doesn’t believe in luck, but by the time I wrote those words...
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