On Becoming a Frog
Written March 4th, 2011 Yes, you read that correctly. Becoming a frog, and by extension, exercising my ‘frog-ness’ is, and has always been my goal, an ideal even. And one that I actively and even passionately pursue. This, I understand, will involve something of a digression, which of course...
Protecting What Is Kept Inside
Written February 4th, 2011 From the moment I first felt the impulse to write, which at this point accounts for more than three decades, I became acutely aware of my limitations in doing precisely that. It’s been a struggle from the very beginning. I struggled mightily with English as...
It’s All In the Eyes
Written January 14th, 2018 I will ask that you look deeply into these eyes, for they are the eyes of no mere mortal. Nietzsche once wrote, “Alas, there are so many things between heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed,” and in Walt Whitman, those words...
Guernica to Woodstock – A Short Digression
Written August 11th, 2020 I would have never suspected that a link existed between the two, but there it was right in front of me, Picasso and Hendrix, artists separated by a generation, a continent, and a World War. But due to their extraordinary talents, and the fame resulting...