Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

woke up this morning out of a dream something about two old friends one lost to the past the other to mortality something about work something about... whatever something that couldn't outshine the morning sun in my eyes I groaned stretched and farted wordlessly acknowledging that I'd made it to ano...

Like a lot of kids in his generation, my dad grew up tinkering under car hoods, and even got my mother to let him buy a 1931 Model A he kept in the garage to dismantle & reassemble on rainy weekends - I can only recall a few occasions when he actually took the thing out for a spin. The industry's in...

we've had only a few days like that so far - most mornings, I light the furnace just long enough to take off the chill. Even when summr hits ,it usually cools off enough at night to get it comfortable by morning. Usually.

"Number, please..." My aversion to the iPhone is legendary among those closest to me. I wouldn't have one at all if it hadn't been given to me in return for fostering my ex's dog for several months in 2024. Apart from a whirlwind 20-minute tutorial from her husband - little more than a promotional ...

 
midnight thunder
a dream about old friends
one bed, two worlds

I discovered from a hiking app I use (MapMyRun.com) a new trail I hadn't known of in the WMA I've tramped all these years. It offered views of the MIllers River I'd never seen before, from places I've never before stood: . 1-IMG_6762.jpg . 2-IMG_6764.jpg . .............................................

spirituality is not...
...self-congratulation
...compiling enemies lists
...scapegoating
...rewriting history to justify your own sins
...equating disagreement with hostility
... made of gold

no matter how many times they tell you that it is

they are wrong

not mistaken - just wrong

had a room like that myself when I was a boy a steep narrow staircase from the family room and this big double bay window overlooking the hills of Vermont to the west when my bro and I smoked dope we'd open it wide so our dad wouldn't smell it eventually he noticed all the spent matches musta put tw...

awaiting the rapture...?

this chapbook evokes ... experience we can can all enjoy in our pajamas....we needn't fire up the VW bus and cruise into town to look for a collection of pamphlets....haha I'd certainly like to think so. I'm not too adept at expressing myself aloud (as my disastrous interview with a podcaster illus...

thanks, all - I'm blessed to live so near these magic places, and to still be able to enjoy them

To be honest, I don't really know what a chapbook is. It was suggested I write one, so I looked it up, and it seemed to involve more hand-crafting than suits me - so I thought an endless thread I could add onto by Commenting would be a better fit. I don't know what topics a true "chapbook" should co...

Delightfully specific! There's a time for exploration, and a time for rouutine, and I think part of getting older is just learning which is which. Here's my breakfast routine - always undertaken after flossiing, brushing, morning meds, & at least 2 half-mugs of coffee. (Full mugs cool off before I c...

It's all there is!

on Rituals Rituals. Rites, ceremonies… I imagine we all have them, of one sort or another. Regular church goers – as I used to be – certainly do, just in the very act of attending, whether or not they participate in the liturgy. There’s a kind of comfort in the repetition of familiar actions, a rea...