friday night/saturday morning was spent on samish island which included: a moonlit beach, bald eagles, vegan cranberry and walnut pancakes, listening to johnny cash and reading about julius and ethel rosenberg in a people's history of the united states.

i watched fog of war over the weekend and now i'm longing to go through my vietnam war era ( Read more... )

i've decided the next road trip i take shall be through the northeast. at least i'd like it that way. it's an area of the country i have NEVER seen or explored or know anything about really, at all ( Read more... )

this afternoon it was an email from paris:

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found this sitting in my marquette email inbox today:

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all i've been listening to the last two days is live grateful dead. and pigpen's songs were really some of the best. i wonder if jerry still would have become the CENTERPIECE of the band if pigpen would have lived past 1973 ( Read more... )

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HOW to BE NEWwake up early. eat a light breakfast. wrap your mother's rocking chair songs in tissue and put them in a knapsack. fill a canteen with your sister's stories. build a portable radio out of old monochrome photographs and spin the dial until you hear your father whistling good morning through the static. walk into the forest. count your ( Read more... )

and i go on making small promises to myself in the meanwhile: i will walk every day in between the trees, i will make some celebration, i will love without fear, i will create beautiful things, i will be unafraid to fly, i will move and speak and live deliberately ... my promises stretch out and out sometimes past the horizon of possibility, and ( Read more... )

it could've been yesterday that i was standing on the terrace in madison staring up at the sky thinking the outdoor season has started. it was only may 13 but the big wu played a show outside and it didn't rain on us and there's something so freeing about listening to music outdoors, you know? connecting with nature while hearing good tunes and not ( Read more... )

i woke up this morning to a phone call from sweden. kevin (my uncle) called and we talked for more than an hour and WE'RE WRITING A SCREENPLAY TOGETHER. that is all for now.