A Creative Encounter Lunch

Yesterday my dear friend, David White, invited me to a birthday lunch at City Market in Shorewood, WI. Always a delight to spend time with a poet, singer, and a specialist in gratitude and happiness. The food was okay and the conversation superb. When the coffee grinder became unpleasantly loud we moved to the outdoor […]

The Milwaukee River… summer… simple, wet and muddy pleasures…

the roar of water falling providing altered states. with senses filling and flowing thoughtlessly within the river — with Sophia — George Lottermoser Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain (1835-1910) Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river […]

Brother performing @ River Rhythms

The Aussie/Celtic/Rock band Brother performed at River Rhythms Wednesday evening. The band has down sized from when I first got to know them in the mid 90’s. Seem to have lost a bit of energy too. Though still a very lovely way to spend an evening in Pierre Marquette Park. A good time was had […]

Father’s Day

Yes, I know it’s a “Hallmark Card” merchant’s advertising day. Yet I enjoy its effect on my psyche. Days before I think about my dad, and his dad, in unusual ways — considering whether to put a picture of dad up on the blog, or FaceBook — then the pictures of dad and grandpa run […]