Serenity… an expedition

You know how you learn something, and you know it intellectually, you can recite the why’s and the wherefore’s of it, and can explain it to someone else – but you know, and you know you know, that you just don’t get it?
Well, that was me – with any number of things (like long, rambly [...]

i am accused of tending to the past as if i made it, as if i sculpted it with my own hands. i did not. this past was waiting for me when i came, a monstrous unnamed [...]

I mentioned some time back that I was going to open up my “book writing and research” site but I don’t think I ever gave the address.
Anyway it’s called The Book of Louis and while it’s still a bit scattered, it is open. I’ll pull it all together soon.

Well, that’s not really true, the blank mind* part. Rather there is so much tumbling around in my brain that I think it’s created a bottle neck. I wish I could figure out a way out of that. Not that I can’t just sit down and yammer on – obviously I can. But when it [...]

I’m going back to attempting to write daily but instead of just whatever blather comes to mind I have set a sort of theme for this month, based on this quote from Ornette Coleman, which I am putting up for September:
“I decided, if I’m going to be poor and black and all, the least thing [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post, I want to I am going to write a book and, today being the first day it’s been only me and my mom in the house, I decided to get started right away because scenes are writing themselves in my head. And that’s what I sat down to [...]

I don’t really like the ocean. Well, I like to listen to it and look at it, but I don’t particularly like to be in it. I can’t swim, you see, even though the rest of my family swim like fish. Me – one too many times getting almost drowned, as a joke or something, [...]

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I’ve read all the books I got from the library the other day, save one. No great feat – I only got four in the first place because, even with the small selection they had, I had a tough time seeing the books. The titles or the author names or anything. I do wear glasses [...]

I’d forgotten how annoying all those Greek and/or Roman goddesses and gods were. Mind you, I used to love reading the myths when I was in my early teens. I had a copy of Bullfinche’s Mythology and I’d read it all the time – I had most of the stories and the various deities and [...]