Showing posts with label Thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thought. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

"Because I Know, From Plato"

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I have ground up hemlock and it releases a nose-wrinkling sour smell.  It also sparks a pain above your eyes and across the brain.  I have...
Sunday, December 9, 2018

Editorial

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Two spaces after a period: Two steps to let that first thought settle before we move to a new one.
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Notebook: Dive Thoughts

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1.     Scribble, scribble, Mr. Gibbon : A box of saltines, Two cans of sardines, And a bottle of Irish: I feel ready. 2.  Wearing the ...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

King: Clay from 2011

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King Holmberg : Sculpture mix; transparent brown and denim glazes, layered. Missing the play of clay in hand . . . .
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The Winding and Unwinding

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THE WINDING AND UNWINDING The shape of your thought Entices me Quite as much as The thought of your shape. Clay-minded, Bloody-brai...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Wool-Gathering

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Yesterday's product of idle hands: just hanging out in the studio, watching clay -- figures and bowls -- dry . . . I pulled out a ...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Credo

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Salty, sandy, sunburnt, sore-muscled: all the signs of a day well-spent.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Touchstone: from Kirk Russell's "Redback"

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Here’s a passage that matters to me, a passage that truly evokes emotion and thought, from the fourth John Marquez eco-thriller by Kirk Rus...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Lost In Thought

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Sunday, February 1, 2015

The Crabman: Two Views.

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JP at Bodega Bay.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Whiskey With Ice; Leaping From Zeus

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RANDOM THOUGHTS OF THE DAY ____________________________ "No, I still drink whiskey with ice." My response when the dental hyg...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Byron: "This Odd Labyrinth"

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I won’t describe—that is, if I can help     Description; and I won’t reflect—that is, If I can stave off thought, which, as a whelp     ...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Minotaur, Yearning

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Minotaur: sculpture mix; blue and green glazing. Model-exercise: 40 minutes? (Previous entry here .)
Friday, December 20, 2013

"The Wanderer": Burton Raffel Translates From The Old English

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THE WANDERER This lonely traveller longs for grace, For the mercy of God; grief hangs on His heart and follows the frost-cold foam He ...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Foreground: The Pict

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Background: The Merman's Head . Alternative titles: Not Hadrian; Deep in Thought; or  The Painted Man's Grasp.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Shadows of the Past: Advice

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"Think harder; write better." -- from one of my favorite professors to the English 47B class as a whole; he was a tad frustrated ...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Arnold: "With Noiseless Current Strong, Obscure and Deep"

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Below the surface-stream, shallow and light, Of what we say we feel -- below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel -- there f...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Byron: "A Small Drop Of Ink"

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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,        Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps milli...