Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Love is when you "bring it on home",
and its all good, just like the song of same title.
Keep on chooglin'...

Wireman, et al, check me out at my "Life in the Horse Lane" column.
Hard to believe...fifty, count 'em years ago...almost! I left DC area at or around Feb. 1, 1961. Kennedy had just been installed in office. My family thinks I am a living history book. Maybe I am...I keep on chooglin'.

Wireman, et al, check me out at my "Life in the Horse Lane" column.
Hard to believe...fifty, count 'em years ago...almost! I left DC area at or around Feb. 1, 1961. Kennedy had just been installed in office. My family thinks I am a living history book. Maybe I am...

DuPont Circle lives! DC was a whole different town even in the early sixties. "Ich bin ein Berlin" said Kennedy. I remember seeing him just after the inauguration before we moved to Texas. The fifties were a great time for people of a certain age & status and who could afford a car. My folks could g...

DuPont Circle lives! DC was a whole different town even in the early sixties. "Ich bin ein Berlin" said Kennedy. I remember seeing him just after the inauguration before we moved to Texas. The fifties were a great time for people of a certain age & status and who could afford a car. My folks could g...

Tom Jones hit, "She's a Lady", is still boss after all these years.

Thanks to you both for your input. I like to share info about writing if I see something interesting. Hey, I think there are others out there. Hope to see them post here about their automatic writing and word jam experiences. Sometimes the word jam, etc. inspires and the punctuation comes later. I d...

I know what you mean. I usually keep a dream journal beside my bed in case anything jumps out at me in my dreams. Donald Hall, poet & essayist; and Jack Kerouac, novelist & poet, used similar notebooks. I imagine quite a few others, including those on this blog, use that tool of a journal or noteboo...

Also see the "Vatic Voice" presented in a topic: in my "Life in the Horse Lane" column, called: "Writing With the 'Vatic Voice' " I think we all use a similar technique without even realizing it . Thanks to revolutionrabbit for an inspirational moment. Maxims, I say, to be used in snacks for the Emp...

Have you ever used the "Vatic Voice" when doing automatic writing? It was an expression coined by Donald Hall in one of his essays. See below. In the book": "Breakfast Served Any Time All Day-Essays on Poetry New and Selected" by Donald Hall, one of the essays is titled: 'The Vatic Voice'. In this e...

In the book": "Breakfast Served Any Time All Day-Essays on Poetry New and Selected" by Donald Hall, one of the essays is titled: 'The Vatic Voice'. In this essay, Hall defines the idea of vatic as "the Greek word for the inspired bard. . ." He feels that this voice "speaks only in dream, often in un...

Hope Chile continues to get international help. Earthquakes are terrible things, and especially when they hit this hard. Our prayers are with
Chile in her national time of need.

Happy belated birthday, Artguy, and many happy returns...

Reminds me of some times at the beach,
when my child was small. Very happy times...
Beautiful imagery...

Even in an altered state, one MAY petition the Lord with prayer...
Always go to the emergency room with clean underwear,
Keep those cards and letters flowing toward the continuum
Of the world soul...maxims to snack on for the Empire...