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Dignity
"I will never, ever give a woman my dignity. When a woman is taking advantage of my kindness, when she is taking me for granted, when she thinks that her mere presence is enough for me, I will walk...
View ArticleThe Softer Side Of Dignity
Dignity Lesson #1 - Don't listen to songs on the radio.I first heard this song during my coming of age years of the 1960's in my home town of Detroit, Michigan. In those days, I would go to bed with a...
View ArticleDignity, Part III - Finale
Eric Anderson is another one of those brilliant singer-songwriters of the 60's. This decade remains the pinnacle of creative output of the American/British folk tradition. I could name them all, their...
View ArticleWho Knows Where The Time Goes?
Sandy Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978)Across the evening sky, all the birds are leavingBut how can they know it's time for them to go?Before the winter fire, I will still be dreamingI have no...
View ArticleClosure
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warmYour hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden stormYes, many loved before us, I know that we are not newIn city and in forest, they smiled like me...
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Death of a visionary
Why are you here? Why are you taking this course?Why film?The three questions asked by Professor Manupelli on the first day of class, "Introduction to Cinematography," University of Michigan, circa,...
View ArticleFifty-One Years Ago Today
Who killed the Kennedy's? When after all, it was you and me.-Mick JaggerCan't let today go by without my small, humble remembrance. It was a day everything changed and don't ask me to explain, because...
View ArticleDetroit, Detroit
Sweep upI've been sweepin' up the tips I've madeI've been livin' on GatoradePlannin' my getawayDetroit, Detroit got a hell of a hockey teamGot a left-handed wayOf makin' a man sign up on that...
View ArticlePale Blue Dot
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The...
View ArticleThe Gelato Wars
I brought home a container of Italian gelato last weekend, a very unusual purchase for me. I don't do well with temptation, but if it matters at all I bought it at Whole Foods, so its healthy, right?...
View ArticleThe Unbelievable Serendipity Of Love
I wish I had spent more time living than writing. More time happy, than sad. More time touching than looking, more time dancing than sitting, more time playing than sleeping, and more time in love,...
View ArticleHomeward Bound
"I received this long, handwritten letter from a guy who lived on some island in South Carolina. I remember it was like this long catharsis, flashbacks of his life in song, my songs. He went through...
View ArticleCeaselessly Into The Past
IThe world only exists in my eyes. I can make it as big or as small as I want. I'm not sure what I’ll do, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen...
View ArticleWho did he touch, who did he know?
I hear the voicethat claims my nameInvisible beingone and the sameWho is this manWhere did he goWho did he touchWho did he know?The end comes closerwith every word I writeas every deep breathdrifts...
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I Saw You I saw youWhen you were not looking When you were not lookingBut you knew that I was. I felt youWhen you were not feeling When you were not feeling But you that knew I was. I kissed...
View ArticleHomesick
With a holy host of others standing 'round meStill I'm on the dark side of the moonAnd it seems like it goes on like this foreverYou must forgive meIf I'm up and gone to Carolina in my mindIn my mind...
View ArticleTo Be The Father Of Growing Daughters
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's...
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Invisible
Gravity; Consciousness; Future/Past; Memories; Atoms; Light; Electricity; All But 5 Galaxies; Radio Waves; All We Don't Know; The Point Of This; The Point Of Anything.We are all here on earth to help...
View ArticlePaul Simon & George Harrison
I don't know what happens when people dieCan't seem to grasp it as hard as I tryIt's like a song I can hear playing right in my earThat I can't singI can't help listening - Jackson Browne
View ArticleThe Kiss
In the summer of 1977 I moved from Boston to Atlanta, looking for a fresh start after by two very punishing and failed relationships while in law school. Moving to a place where I knew no one, and no...
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Don't Bogart That Joint, My Friend
POT STOCKS LIGHT UP THE MARKET"The business of legal marijuana is booming in Colorado -- and investors are catching a contact high."Yes, there are pot stocks. Nearly all of them are thinly traded penny...
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