July 2024 – Muttering Retreats

In Remembrance

Dad and I had the best talks. Both of us philosophical and at times brooding in nature, we would share our deepest thoughts and fears, and try to make some sense of it all. At our best, we’d come up with some pithy maxims. More often they were simply, observations — observations that we hopedContinueContinue reading “In Remembrance”

The Summer of Our Content

“In summer the song sings itself above the muffled words.”William Carlos Williams Seems like it makes sense to follow up my latest observational post about steering into bliss, kindness, and having fun with some photographic evidence of same. Five-star production of “Spring Awakening” at the Flint Rep Back in the director’s chair for a stagedContinueContinue reading “The Summer of Our Content”

Spring 2024 Observations

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – Georges Seurat I miss my dad. I miss him a little less when I do things that he loved to do with me. It’s like a mini-seance, when I do those things. Children are a mirror. Teenagers are a funhouse mirror. An object inContinueContinue reading “Spring 2024 Observations”