Monthly Archives: March 2011

Nature makes teens and the elderly mean. Otherwise, we would never let them go.

–a grandmother

“Ok, so you stole fire but you lack two things, justice and reverence. Without justice and reverence your stealing fire will be your undoing.”

–Zeus to Prometheus.

Pinetop Perkins, one of the last original Delta bluesmen, is dead at 97. So long, Pinetop. I was fortunate enough to see you perform before you left. You showed me and the world the gut bucket joy and low down sexual drive that makes the blues a universal art form. You didn’t clean up the blues, but left them in their raw, electric, visceral glory.

Another big wave surfer, Sion Miloski, is drowned at Mavericks. He left two young children. Someone, maybe them, wrote “we love you Daddy” in the sand at the beach where they found his body. One could say, how self-centered and foolish to surf 60 foot waves, especially with little kids at home. However, moralizing is a poor container for what will not be contained. There is a fierce and terrible beauty when young men tempt fate. They would agree with you if you called them fools.

Language is fossil poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

–Albert Einstein

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
–Ralph WaldoEmerson US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)