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Provenance

This is one of only two known complete productions of the original 48 page program commerating Woodstock, “Three Days of Peace and Music“.  The event took place at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York from August 15 – 18, 1969.  The Vietnam war was about to reach a tipping point. Thousands of programs were […]

My Guitar

I have a piano keyboard, too.  I learned to read music and play a few songs on the guitar.  Some quite well.  My real interest, however, was in chord progression and music theory.  I was pretty good at that.  But like many things, I didn’t possess the desire, or discipline, to sustain any sincere interest. […]

Paris

When Kathy and I emerged from the Saint-Michel Paris Metro our first glimpse of Paris was the funky Latin Quarter on the Left Bank and the posh Marais District on the Right.  Notre-Dame was less than a quarter mile away, and we could see Place Saint-Michel and our apartment just across the Seine River less […]

Kairos

KAIROS – “Reaching For The Brass Ring”     Have you ever had the feeling of missed opportunity.   That fleeting moment when the “brass ring” was within your grasp, but you just didn’t reach in time, or at all. The Greek word “chronos” means chronology, and refers to linear, or chronological time. Kairos, however, refers to the […]

Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli is a name that emotes powerful responses, even from those who have never read a word of his writings. The expression “Machiavellian” has become a pejorative term associated with the dark and suspicious side of human nature.  However, serious students of Machiavelli acknowledge that he was, in fact, a dedicated republician committed to […]

Quantum Tears

Ankara’s grief is but the blood of Zwet, and the mystic swirl of Becktic’s breast is well sweetened as Floral begins to weep amidst entangled orbits of the Hermitian Plains. They spin, collapse, drift, expel to sooth the cosmic storm’s refrain for reserve’s retreat to momentarily cleanse a timeless horizon with stateless grace;. /then Whether […]