flashback- November 28th 2006

Asclepias (milkweed)


"Asclepius emerged from a marriage of light (Apollo) and darkness (Koronis - one of the names for Asclepius' mother), of heaven with earth. In the language of depth psychology, this is a wedding of consciousness and the unconscious."   
Eugen Drewermann

KPFA.org FM- Alcatraz is not an island, it is a mountain

40th anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz

Martinique Fisherman

the two year series (Nov. 24, 2007 - Nov. 25, 2009)

"There’s a lot of accidental love in the world despite so much crass indifference."

Thus began the first post at Robert Gibbons log
Two years later he concludes the two year series (Nov. 24, 2007 - Nov. 25, 2009)

Disembarking
Robert Gibbons Disembarking the craft carried me around the world for two years & two days, writing, blank pages & blank screens, not always real seas, nor Charybdis, I greet you simply, as a Martinique fisherman does returning to port, “Still alive.”

technical glitches have prevented this from being added on line yet

thanks to woods lot

Lisa Saffer

Lisa Saffer, soprano “La Princesse”
Philip Glass Orphée
Portland Opera
Anne Manson, conductor

“...a terrific cast, led by Lisa Saffer, a cougar on the prowl as the Princess of death....Saffer’s singing was powerful, moving, and fearless. Her upper register, where Glass places a lot of awkward phrases, gleamed, even as she smoldered at Orpheus.”
David Stabler, The Oregonian

Bob Thompson in The American Scholar:

Brownfield Public Library

in the name of luminosity and transparency.

by way of ordinary finds