Last year in Montreal, came upon a really good exhibit on Alan Glass at the Museum of Fine Arts. I didn’t know much about him, but I was taken with his approach and his art, and so I wrote the following snippet, which is supposed to be something of a mirror to the work. Enjoy.ContinueContinue reading “Alan Glass – A Poem”
Category Archives: place
Megiddo
Sometimes I’ll be putting some pix up on the socials and I start writing and I wind up with a mini essay of sorts. This is one of those times; harkening back to December holidays, when I met my son and his girlfriend in Chicago for the week, he saw his mom’s parents, we sawContinueContinue reading “Megiddo”
The Grassy Knoll
Here’s a micro essay from Labor Day week, when I was visiting my son in Dallas. Although I played in Dallas back in the day and passed by the book depository a time or two on trips, I’d never visited The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and the infamous Grassy Knoll. I always wantedContinueContinue reading “The Grassy Knoll”
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller was bad ass, as the kids say, if they still say that. He was a visionary, and the vision was to try and find new ways for people to live together more efficiently, as opposed to working towards new ways for people to lose their jobs so he could own twelve more houses.ContinueContinue reading “Buckminster Fuller”
Towers of Song
Bon Soir and on to my next Montreal missive, revolving around one of its favorite sons, Leonard Cohen. Last time I was there, Leonard was still among the living, and while I suppose I could’ve run into him by chance, it is impossible not to encounter his memory these days, re; all the tributes scatteredContinueContinue reading “Towers of Song”
Doug Hoekstra 