Tag: Acrylics
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A New Year’s Meditation
Arbiter And CuratorA New Year’s Meditation Akkam’s razor suggeststhat the simplest answeris often correct and the best that seems a good blueprintfor a simple and minimalist lifestylecollecting and keeping onlywhat is truly needed and desired not acquiring for acquisition’s sakenor to lord it over those with ‘less’taking more than one needsseems immoral to me each…
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We Are All Philosophers
We Are All Philosophers I describe myself as a ‘cynical optimist’. I liken it to a katana (Japanese long sword)… my core being optimism, softer, more malleable, more open and hopeful, which is encased in hardened and finely honed cynicism… for cutting through all the philosophical (sophistry), political, and social junk (BS). The thing about…
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Self-actualizatoin
Self-actualization from early youthtried to figure outwho I was andwhere I fit in life’sscheme don’t think Dadreally wanted kidsMom did, but apparentlynot very proud ofher brood fairness an issue tome from an early ageglasses inflicted at threeand a frail form wellinto puberty while peers primpedand preened I ponderedheritage, destinyand self-improvement, yesI did some primping, too…
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Each New Start
Each New Start each new start, an improvisationlaying-on paint, running musical scalesor penning rhymes – stabilizing time –LE This verse is from a longer poem, That’s Life, and was an epiphany for me, of sorts (a head-nodding realization) … That’s all it ever was … just ‘stabilizing time’, and perhaps my mind, and maybe that’s…
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On The Beat And Off
On The Beat And Off an hour agoI wason the roadwith Kerouachit the roadJack …in the wastelandon one of those roadsnot takenas Eliot, Frostand I danced withFerlinghettiin his mind’sConey Islandconstantly riskingabsurdityas wehowledwith Ginsberghiking mountainpaths gripping ouraxe handlesin riprapwith Snyderas we ponderedDi Prima’sletters “…withno otherransomthanmyself …” –LE – 11/20/25 Yes, a tribute, mainly to the Beats…
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Why Choose?
Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why? Why Choose? Personally, I ‘prefer’ wherever I am, not only in the moment, but seasonally and ‘migrationally’… Right now, I prefer the High Sonoran Desert, where I currently live. In years gone by, that preference was for lake, river, and ocean shores, and occationally, the vertical faces…
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Deamweaver
Dreamweaver secret murderin the drawing room the queen of Egypta fallen flame a moon markedtrilogy of mortalsdescended onCrescent City kidnapped thewatchmaker’s daughterstole the magician’s diarya glimmer of the other hex the witchthe charmerthe saintthe sinner in the palace oflost dreamsshackled to thedreamweaver –LE – 11/16/25
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Deconstructing Sin
Deconstructing Sin What is sina fopauxintentional or notanother kind oftransgressionegregious or nota crime againstsocial individualmurder theftdeceit in other wordsis it puttingyourself firstin all thingssurvival ofthe fittestbeating breakingthe systemplaying byyour own orno rules sin is a wordan idea some finduseful and appealingin feeling betterabout themselvesfor their mis-perceivedconceivedlack thereofand thereforemore worthy oflife’s gifts andpleasuresrationalizationsfor turningblind eyes toperils…
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Arabica
Arabica This faded old mansion, trying to recapture its bygone glory by housing this want-to-be cool, trendy, campus coffee house, has the atmosphere of some ancient, feral, watering hole, hunting ground. You can feel the eyes and hot breath of its denizens, circling, watching, ready to pounce. Prey and predator are easily distinguishable. Prey, no…
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