Anger
"Anger is evidence of irrational optimism." - Stafford
Gene is dead
An old couple and their dog were found dead today at their house just up the mountain from me. Whether suicide or CO2, they died together. My mother called me concerned about the dog, poor dog, she said. I said lucky dog, you wouldn’t want to wake up with both your owners dead. She said…
A brush with love
Instant love is attraction like a magnet Drawing you to your beloved in a momentWith the flicker of a smileAnd the scent of the agesPulling you in at first meeting. But, real love seeps into your lifeSlowlyDripping just a drop at a time.Never drinking from a fire hose.Always leaving you thirsty for more.
The Scent of Honor
You like to be cleanBut you get dirty without apologyOr resentmentYou smell when you’ve been workingOf sweat and grease and trashAnd sticky icky gooAnd juice combined with brothNot in a recipe but on your skin aloneA smell that’s nowhere elseBut on youAnd on me when you touch meThe way I smell as you walk to…
Dali
I recently received this from my Aunt Stafford. She's talking about their family's trips to New York where they stayed at the St. Regis Hotel. Her description reminds me that being an artist is about seeing more than it is about painting: "We have a connection to Dali that you may not know about. He…
CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.