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(General Baron Jacques)
A new work. “Don’t be fucking ridiculous … I just wear stars! (General Baron Jacques)” I love how making art is an ever-evolving process. If you look back at the earlier works in this series, Read more…
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‘Catch’ Revisited, & a Book Project
Nearly five years ago, I published my poem “Catch” on this blog. In the time since, I’ve written and created many more works of various kinds. This includes a photograph of a found baseball in Read more…
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‘I Could Do That’
Something that’s been in the back of my mind for many years, even long before I was a practicing artist, has been occasionally encountering non-artists looking at art and saying, “I could do that.” It Read more…
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‘What You Can Plan Is Too Small For You to Live’
The Irish poet David Whyte surely speaks to countless souls with his poem, “What to Remember When Waking.” He posted only a small piece of it on social media yesterday, the first stanza plus the Read more…
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A Reflection of Who I Am in This Moment
Rick Rubin, the legendary music producer, says, “The things we make are a reflection of who we are in this moment, and that’s all it is. It’s not more than that. It can go on Read more…
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This Week’s Roundup of Doings (2/24/23)
These weekly roundups are an extension of “The Log Book of Doings,” which I keep daily in a handmade journal gifted to me by my wife, Becca. I use the Log Book of Doings for Read more…
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The Terrible Price We Pay for Our Unsung Songs
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in his poem, “The Voiceless”: Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them. Psychotherapist Barry Michels cited that line of Holmes’ poem in “The Tools,” Read more…
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& Vulnerability Is The Point
I recently wrote that self-study is the point. True. And at the heart of self-study, and so much else, is vulnerability. So now I am saying, vulnerability is the point. And that’s true too. Vulnerability Read more…
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This Week’s Roundup of Doings (2/17/23)
As I keep saying, I’ve been using a practice, “The Log Book of Doings,” as recognition of daily creative accomplishments and motivation to keep going in the various facets of my work. These weekly roundups Read more…
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“Husks,” A Poem from the Trail
As I’ve written before, in “What Sets a Poem in Motion,” poetry often starts flowing in my mind when I’m present and open to it. It doesn’t take much to set it off. On hikes, Read more…
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‘San Agustinillo,’ the Not Quite Forgotten Chapbook
Before the pandemic, I had said on this blog that I was writing a chapbook of poetry from a two-week family trip to Oaxaca, Mexico. We stayed in a small village on the Pacific coast, Read more…
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This Week’s Roundup of Doings (2/10/23)
As I said in the previous weekly roundups, I’ve been using a practice, “The Log Book of Doings,” as recognition of daily creative accomplishments and motivation to keep going in the various facets of my Read more…
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My Vow In This Second Half of Life
The other day, I sent out the first Humanitou email newsletter in nearly two years. It used to be a monthly thing. I did it with subtle, quiet purpose this time, and said I don’t Read more…
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ChatGPT is at Capacity Right Now
ChatGPT is shaking up the content world at the moment. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s an A.I. chatbot that launched in November 2022. It’s artificial intelligence that is capable of text conversation and writing Read more…
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Thinking Time
One of my sons lies in bed, thinking. He reads there a lot too. But sometimes, when I go in to tell him goodnight, he’s just lying there, eyes open, no book in hand. Like Read more…