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Well, let's see. I took my first breath the Sunday evening of January 20, 19-something. Don't ask me my age unless you're prepared to believe a lie. I grew up in Texas and Indiana where I rode motorcycles through corn fields, paddled canoes over waterfalls, dreamed of being a poet--an expatriate living in a far and distant land. I went to college in Utah and Texas and have a BA in Theatre and another one in English (composition & rhetoric). I lived in New York City for a while and attended the National Shakespeare Conservatory but dropped out after spending all of my student-aid money on 2-months rent, a plate of eggs benedict, and a basketball. I know, crazy, right? Why did I buy a basketball?
I worked as a technical editor for a publishing company in NYC. Recently married, we lived in a tiny "artsy" (meaning mouse and roach infested) studio in Gramercy Park. A couple of years later, our beautiful daughter was born and we moved to Texas where I went to work for its democratic governor. And suddenly I discovered that I was a closet socialist and then summarily "fired" when Bush came to town. I spent my early career looking for a career. Spent my mid-career trying to resuscitate my first career and soon thereafter settled into my current career that felt like coming to after falling down the balcony stairs. I pass the time with my work and do it fairly well. Initially, however, I wanted to write novels on a beach in Northern Africa or make cheese out of a wagon while traveling with gypsies, but I was pressed into a real job due to the above mentioned child and a delinquent student loan.
I've always believed that life is a journey as depicted by the tiny rune tattooed on my hand. And so I aim to journey on without the pathos of a martyr looking over his shoulder at an image blurred by age and remorse. I try to guide my life by that tiny voice within me struggling each day to sever myself from ego. I hope to obtain someday the wise dignity of an artist or a scholar; always pressing forward like everyman--going to work, paying the bills, feeding the family, reasoning his way through days that go on and on like rain dripping down a mountain.
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Excerpt from "Walking Through Brambles: a narrative of circumspection"
Rain comes to Valencia like typhus: wind, thunder, rain—predictable and ruthless. And once it passes, recovery is slow and the entire valley, exhausted. Valencia, however, never floods—nothing drowns, nothing is fully immersed. The earth is marked just a little, scratched just a bit immediately after the fall. And from the runoff, the bleeding, the landscape is re-tissued as though a top layer of skin has molted—nature's facelift. Our little Garden of Eden once again is as it was in the beginning before the fall, before Gethsemane, before the atonement when rain was nothing more than absorbed, when rain did nothing more than fall.
Delicate flora has washed away. Colors not diluted by the master artist now appear freshly painted, glossy in the aftermath. Ferns are now a deeper green, their jagged edges sharper than ever. Nature's confetti lays everywhere. Fallout consisting of anonymous blossoms, buds and leaves still hold their colors but have somehow lost their virtue in the storm. Pathways, fountains, and ponds display a similar complexion, distinction muted by the downpour. Nature celebrated a new year it seems, or maybe a wedding—a consummation by the look of things. The afterthoughts can be uncomfortably familiar, or unfamiliar. Is it worth the mess, one wonders?
Yellow Cat weathered the storm, perched on the piano bench. The sound of my playing, comparable to thunder, must transfix her, purring as usual, paws and chin resting upon my lap. Unfortunately, I practice only as often as it rains here. The piano, more than anything, serves merely as a reminder of music. Where the mission choir is an ensemble of cathedral acoustics, gothic accompaniment and the interplay of audience and angels; my piano, on the other hand, is the solo. It is only me. It is more sound than music, more cliché than opus, more heart than voice. But Yellow Cat lays still and listens; and maybe in the studio upstairs, my music is heard as well.
Although the rain dilutes the valley's colors, it enriches the atmosphere with earthy aromas as hearty as smoke. After the cloudburst, the fertile air draws all life into the open. Noses swelling, windward, townsfolk ponder the familiarity in the air that only comes after rain. The green cologne of the river, woods, and sea plus everything sweet that perished in the storm attack the senses like a crusade of meadows. Topsoil smells up the air with that rich, gritty decay of earth. The breeze brings a spring-cleaned energy comparable to that of April's last layer of snow sinking into the piney soil, cleaning the earth's pores before trickling into pools and streams across the valley.
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Quantum Bubbles Rising
My next book describes consciousness as the matter within a bubble and follows this consciousness as it rises from the bottom of the sea to it's release into the atmosphere. I think of the bubble as a womb, like the earth as a womb for all of us. The bubble holds us, nurtures and teaches us, carries us into maturity until we rise to the top and are born into the universe.
I am the cold grey of a turning sea
the stillness of a warm bay--
a balmy sedation
subtle as glass.
I am the room between thoughts
the distance between words
the infinite rests of an unfinished song
the echo of a mayfly's whisper.
I am the first breath of sleep
the next tick of an unwound clock
the last seductive secret;
I am the ubiquitous space between.
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A photograph is a meditation...
I have always longed to tell the stories of people I photograph. And I have always fostered a style and philosophy that endeavors to illuminate the soul of everything I see. I look for a person's humanity in their expressions complete with the good, bad, but never truly ugly. And in the end, I often discover a true and soulful beauty that reveals a story about everyday people that, hopefully, we can all relate to. I love people, and helping them find this beauty behind the camera is my number one goal. Nothing illustrates the collaboration of art and science better than the art and science of photography. It employs the art of observation and the science of communication. One must see the sublime in the mundane and the extraordinary in the midst of ordinary. And one must communicate through pictures a context of time that can be preserved and remembered forever.
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