Tattoo me.
I promised Emma I would get a tattoo (my first) for my 50th birthday. She remembered. I've got exactly seven days to make good on it. (LET THE BIRTHDAY WEEK BEGIN!) What should I get for my (tiny) 50th birthday tattoo? Seriously, any ideas?
Make art. Make music. Survive.
Art is part of survival; art is part of the human spirit, an unquenchable expression of who we are. Art is one of the ways in which we say, "I am alive, and my life has meaning." – Karl Paulnack, Director, Music Division, The Boston Conservatory "Music is the study …
Write to them.
My confession: I have never seen Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, or The Breakfast Club. So my attraction to a post I just read about director John Hughes doesn't come from a deep, long-lived love of his work in the world. Not that I wouldn't have liked his movies, …
Protect your karma
"Insist on yourself; never imitate." – Ralph Waldo Emerson My dear friends, (this essay appeared in June 2006 and, sadly, bears repeating now because it is happening again) It has come to my attention that portions of at least two essays from 37days have made their way verbatim onto another …
Happy birthday to my friend, Kim Cromwell, who is much older than me
Today is Kim Cromwell's 50th birthday. Bless her heart, she's so much older than me, idn't it a shame? (For the unintiated, this is an all purpose "insult" used in the Southern part of the U.S., using the following unerring formula: Part A = "Bless her/his heart" Part B = …
One sky, three cloud stories
We were witness to a most extraordinary sky tonight. Four witnesses, three stories, the youngest of us opting for a single word description: "scary." Here are the descriptions from me, John, and Emma, but not in that order: Cauliflower and the Gates of Hell If the sky had been a …
Be a baggage-convertible-optical-fire angel
This is a world of angels. I was so moved on Saturday night when my host in Bend, Oregon, invited two dozen people to sit in a gorgeous fire circle after my reading in that fair city. We talked about paths up a mountain, those paths we had taken and …
He was me.
Your assignment today, should you choose to accept it, is to watch this tiny movie called "He was me," and ponder. Artist and filmmaker Peter Reynolds is my new best friend. He doesn't know it yet, of course, but that has never stopped me before. If you haven't, read his …
Life is a Verb in Manzanita, Portland, Bend!
I'm Oregon bound tomorrow. Perhaps I'll see you at one of these readings in that fine state – hope so! Thursday, July 16 – Manzanita, Oregon 5-6:30pm – Reading Cloud and Leaf Bookstore (503-368-2665) 148 Laneda Avenue Thursday, July 23 – Portland, Oregon 5:30-6:30pm – Informal (and quick!) Dinner …
