We were so close I couldn’t see That everything was wrong I studied you now over me Myself and I went on and on On into the rest of life And love where they belong At least until they come again What’s left is almost gone Gone Did we ever have to go Gone [...]
It's such a sad old feeling The fields are soft and green It's memories that I'm stealing But you're innocent when you dream ------ Tom Waits ---------------------------------------------- I think it was the other way round for me. My adult self feels like my innocence those days was more a waking state than the one Mr. [...]
"The villainy you teach me I will execute—and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction." ----- Shylock from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespere ----------------------------------------------------- I do however, remember how I felt when I saw a movie about revenge at the Chateau Theater that fall. Halloween 1977. ------ It was an [...]
Many of “us” in the arts had our own successes that we saw as not at all appreciated the way every little thing “they” did was heralded as the greatest thing ever. -------------------------------------------- I wish I could remember this more clearly. Of how the whole... students of the art building having their own version of [...]
I see a notification to update my iMac and click to install without reading. The familiar process bar under the Apple logo takes much longer than I'd anticipated. I'm reminded by a quick flash of memory... this is an update to the operating system so it must be a major one to be taking so long. I [...]
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. ----- Robert Frost -------------------------------------------- [...]
When I did a search for images to go with this story, I found the above. It's from a 2014 YouTube video I'd never seen before. It's by ActorVarunPruthi. Please check it out. ----------------------------------------------------- ...the time a few of “us” decided to have our own “Stud Bench”. ------ The traditional "Stud Bench" at John Marshal High [...]
I’ve made that entire wing of school (where the art rooms and the theater and music rooms are) a comfortable place for me to be. ------------------------------------------------- But the art, theater and music building wasn't always a comfortable place for everyone at John Marshal High School. That was a good thing as far as many were [...]
John Marshal High School had an “open campus” in those days. The school day wasn’t quite as free of a scheduling system as the brand new and modern modular scheduling we’d experienced in Junior High, but it was pretty liberal. We could come and go from the school grounds as we pleased, as long as [...]
It's mid-afternoon on a Saturday in December, 1976... my senior year at John Marshal High School in my home town of Rochester, Minnesota. I'm driving to school and I need to pick up Nancy on the way. I don't know why I agreed to do this, but then I never know why I do anything [...]