Some teacher, sometime along the way, likely soured you on poetry. It was done by making you read stiff poems, written in an alien parlance with old-fashioned metaphors, and then insisting you explain … [Read more...]
In The Mirror Darkly
This post first appeared in The Finger Lakes Times (NY), in the weekly series, "Denim Spirit." Here is the link: Projection is a sneaky cat slipping behind the couch of our consciousness, … [Read more...]
In the Backyard
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This post began life as a sermon (June 4), part of which broke off to become a newspaper column (Finger Lakes Times, June 7). Often in the Denim Spirit newspaper series, I attempt to … [Read more...]