Back to the Falls! Today we do the American side, which is smaller and in some ways better organized and enjoyable than the vast Canadian north. You can compare the views from the two countries, and clearly Canada wins on scale and scope. But there is much to admire from this side as well. We […]
It dawned on me that I never explained why we were driving to Toronto. Our good neighbor Sue, having discovered after living for 20 years in the South that she couldn’t take the heat, bought a cabin in upstate NY, to which she decamps every May. We promised to come visit last year, but didn’t […]
You will recall that I had arrived in Prague with a list of some twenty bars which, according to my internet research, were highly regarded by the craft cocktail world. Filip, bartender at the hotel’s Cloud 9, had recommended without hesitation AnonymouS Bar. I did a little further research at their website, anonymousbar.cz, and found […]
The other day I found myself behind a very large, black pickup truck. It had all the accoutrements—if one may use the term—one expects from the male of that species, and it was being driven as one might expect it to be driven, i.e., without regard for others. Plastered across the driver’s side of the […]
You may have noticed, in my gargantuan list of activities from yesterday, that a great many of them had to do with Alchemy, our fall regional Burning Man-style gathering. Here’s what happened. Last spring, we were on new property over in the Great Eastern Wastelands of Georgia and were thinking we had found a new, […]
Fellow Lichtenbergian Jeff Bishop asked me for a photo to include in his new history/compilation book on Coweta County, and I found to my chagrin that I had very few physical photos of my regime as artistic director of the Newnan Community Theatre Company (as it was then known), and the online photos I had […]
In the most recent edition of Caierdroia: the journal of mazes & labyrinths [v.45, 2016], I was struck by the following quote: As Ullyatt notes in “Gestures of approach”: aspects of liminality and labyrinths, “A threshold constitutes a boundary line or marginal area… from which a movement inward or outward may be inferred, even if […]
Perform this music. If you see anything you like, perform it. If you don’t see anything that works for you but you like what you see, ask me to write something new for you. But definitely perform this music. See also Lyles Scale of Compositional Agony A Christmas Carol (1980/2014) William Blake’s Inn (2007) Symphony […]
The labyrinth of the 3 Old Men ritual troupe: a multicursal labyrinth with four entrances/paths to the center. Each path splits twice on its way to the center, where the participant finds a temple bell he can ring and a small altar where he can leave and take small gifts. For those just joining us, […]
***A MUST SHARE*** A young man working in the army was constantly humiliated because he believed in God. One day the captain wanted to humiliate him before the troops. He called the young man and said: – Young man come here, take the key and go and park the Jeep in front. the young man […]