TOM McIntyre writes: I am trying to bring the ongoing critical wildlife situation in Burkina Faso to the attention of people (literally anyone) outside that country. As you may know, Burkina Faso, Benin, and Niger provide habitat for the final viable herds of savanna big game in West Central Africa, including the last few hundred …
Month: December 2018
Two Autumn Poems
Every year I print these two poems. One was composed in the Connecticut River Valley in the 1950s. The other is from Provence ca 1925… October Dawn October is marigold, and yet A glass half full of wine left out To the dark heaven all night, by dawn Has dreamed a premonition Of ice across …
Blues
I think my remedy for the blues may be to buy a Boss I cant afford. Seems logical…
Tommy Mac and Beckett plus
Ace big game hunter Tommy McIntyre (who is disturbed about Burkina Faso the way I am about Turkish Kurdistan , for the same reason and with about as much effect), has been healing his soul by dabbling (I hope he forgives the verb) in Beckett. Here he is in Endgame I thought he might like …
The Illustrious Cripple, the late Bill Wise (so self -described ) amidst haunts and passions…
Bill broke a vertebra surfing with Hobie Alter at 26 and forgot to pay attention. He lived and adventured, shot deer and geese, sailed, collected guns, and built up a wise portfolio. He died at 56 from complications from his quadrieplegia, and left no stone unturned. More : The last are the exquisite Moscow 1890′ …
Bob French, RIP
One of my oldest and best friends, Roberts French, died in Santa Fe a few days ago. I believe he was 84. He survived a year longer than the docs gave him, but the cancer finally wore him down. When I first met Bob and Jenny, in the early seventies at U Mass, Amherst, he …
Quote
“Writers are usually embarrassed when other writers start to “sing”–their profession’s prestige is at stake and the blabbermouths are likely to have the whole wretched truth beat out of them, that they are an ignorant, hysterically egotistical, shamelessly toadying, envious lot who would do almost anything in the world–even write a novel–to avoid an honest …