I’m better in writing, where I can set my own pace and pursue my own turns of mind without anxiety or distraction. Where the only expectations are those established within the work itself, not those pressing in from the world outside. In writing, I make sense and follow my own internal logic. In the world, […]
New song: “This Old Neighborhood”
Here’s a song about settling into one of those sleepy old neighborhoods where many of the inhabitants are still original. And then, with the passage of time, watching it turn over and become something new. If you catch it right on the cusp, you don’t even have to be there that long to see the […]
New song: “Stronger Where I Broke”
Sometimes you have to hit the bottom in order to bounce back. In Kazimierz Dabrowski’s theory of personality development, psychological tension and anxiety are seen as key to growth. Per Wikipedia’s nutshelling of Positive Disintegration: Dabrowski saw these disintegrations as a key element in the overall developmental process. Crises challenge our status quo and cause […]
The growth of compassion
Growing up in an agricultural center, I knew white people who liked to make offensive generalizations about the Mexican-Americans who worked the fields and were (so I was told) taking over the town. But I also lived and went to school among said Mexican-Americans, and they seemed like regular people with some differences of culture […]
New song: “Everybody’s Got a Chance”
This isn’t a holiday song per se, but it does seem fitting for a season in which people embrace their kindest, most charitable impulses. Well, some people do. Others elbow strangers in the face for flat-screen TVs and get way too drunk at office parties. And, you know, that’s okay too. We’re all just running […]
Shame of creativity
On why it took several years to get this site launched, and why having an online creative hub is of particular importance to me. Thanks for being here. Santa Cruz County might sound exotic and bohemian to people who think the drags down Pacific Avenue and Ocean Street to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk are the whole thing. […]
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