Spirit’s New Home
Setting sail destination unknown—
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Seattle’s Wet Spring
Needing a dose of the kid I hopped a flight on Southwest from Oakland to Seattle for the weekend. Here’s her new condo on Capitol Hill. Never done but always organized. This is not something she got from her dad. Last night we ate at Blotto. Lucky for me they had vegan pizza. Joint was […]
Read More Seattle’s Wet SpringOpener… Street Theater Life
The Small Time Bigger Than You Know One of the hardest hand to mouth hustles ever invented in this world of hard knocks is busking. No contracts, no off site gigs, just pure hat and more hat shows. I’m talking about hard cold cash you can count in a hat after a performance. The lightning […]
Read More Opener… Street Theater LifeCattlemen Association Chaining Pinion Pines
No Such Thing as Free Range We’re blowing through this decade. I had expected more from time. I got this instead. Doorbell rings… “Who’s there?” “It’s me, 2020.” “You mean like perfect vision twenty-twenty?” “I mean like Mother Nature-Father Time.” “Go away…” Only going to take about two years. I’ve got an idea for a […]
Read More Cattlemen Association Chaining Pinion PinesThe Showman’s Shortlist of Worries and Affirmations
Hats go up and down much as the stock markets do. I had lunch yesterday with Dan Holzman. He had nothing but good things to say about his last outing. The money stunk but audiences were good. Wheeler Cole back from a lengthy tour of the Big Island of Hawaii has been throwing shows at […]
Read More The Showman’s Shortlist of Worries and AffirmationsYour One Night Stand on the Front Page
Imagining Hot Spring Honeymoon Where Love Has Come to Play “Emptiness does not differ from form. Emptiness is form and form is emptiness,” This ambiguous quote comes from Buddhism’s great teachings contained in The Heart Sutra. Caught in this paradoxical world of here and now, the fiction writer slashes through all the chaos that […]
Read More Your One Night Stand on the Front PageFake Change
“The sand was cheerful and white beneath the evening’s muted glow. A few other people were scattered along the edge of the water. A long gleaming light of a quarter moon shimmered off the water. Venus was low on the horizon, big and bright. The sky was overdone, a steady constant glow surrounded by flickering […]
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