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NOTICE 5 Oct 2012 | 08:04 pm
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ART & VERTICAL TIME 1 Sep 2012 | 06:49 pm
Detail from Houses in Provence. Paul Cézanne, National Gallery of Art. The only "C" I received in college was in an art history class - an irony, since even then I loved art history. I did not enjoy ...
Food, Meals and the Portals of Vertical Time 24 Aug 2012 | 08:35 pm
Dear Friends, Those of you who are followers of my blog know that I suspended publication last February, but may not know that I have resumed my work and writing under a new website, Vertical Time Yo...
Is This Not Poetry? 25 Feb 2012 | 11:08 am
Quantum theory proposes as opposed to classical mechanics -- that movement can exist without a trajectory, without a journey, without an orbit. At least without a known path, and -- what is more impo...
When the Iron Bird Flies 16 Feb 2012 | 12:37 pm
In honor of next Wednesday's celebration of losar, Tibetan new year (or Shambhala Day as many of us know it), I am providing a link to a film-in-production, WHEN THE IRON BIRD FLIES: Tibetan Buddhi...
NECESSARY ANGEL 10 Feb 2012 | 04:50 am
THE PLANET ON THE TABLE Ariel was glad he had written his poems. They were of a remembered time Or of something seen that he liked. Other makings of the sun Were waste and welter And the ripe shrub ...
CREATIVE FECUNDITY 19 Jan 2012 | 09:55 am
When the winter light of the San Francisco Bay Area is at its most heartbreakingly beautiful the atmosphere has been scoured by wind and rain the day before (as it was the day before I took this photo...
"DRALA" or "DRALHA"? 29 Dec 2011 | 10:16 am
Poetry is the other voice. Not the voice of history or of anti-history, but the voice which, in history, is saying something different. - Octavio Paz Though it is the still the end of the year, it ...
NINE MINUTES OF SILENCE 10 Dec 2011 | 10:56 am
Camera. Newseum, Washington, DC The camera above was used to shoot one of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam war. It is also an example of camera as weapon/art as weapon. The photograph, by p...
Thanksgiving Day, Occupy Wall Street DC 27 Nov 2011 | 06:55 am
Movements shift the public will - Rinku Sen I've written again about Occupy Wall Street DC, this time my experiences there on Thanksgiving day - see below. In the spirit of exploring the word "occup...