Archive for November, 2008
God’s Acrobat
There’s a children’s book by Tomie de Paola titled “The Clown of God,” about St. Francis of Assisi. My late friend Robert Lax might have been “God’s Acrobat.” Here’s a little bit of Lax’s great and beautiful poem book-length poem, “Circus of the Sun:” “And in the beginning was love. Love made a sphere; all things [...]
Filed under: Book talk, Poetry, Religion, Robert Lax, Thomas Merton | 2 Comments
Huckleberry friends
Yes, I’m sentimental. For instance, I just heard Bruce Springsteen’s “Independence Day,” in which a son is telling his father that he’s leaving home, that it’s the only way to end their constant quarrels, that maybe the problem is that they’re too different from each other — and too much alike. So I found myself [...]
Filed under: Bob Dylan, Music, Yonkers | 1 Comment
Tags: "Breakfast at Tifanny's", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Independence Day", "Moon River", "Uncle John's Band", Andy Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, buckdancer's choice, Grateful Dead, Huckeberry Finn, Mantovani, Mark Twain, Nigger Jim, Nodine Hill, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Yonkers
Pax et bonum
Approaching the winter of my discontent, I find myself thinking more often about the springtime of my life, and yes, you’re right, that sounds disturbingly like one of John-Boy’s mawkish opening voice-overs for “The Waltons,” and so I’ll get a grip right now and get right to my point: I never knew the name of [...]
Filed under: Religion, Yonkers | 1 Comment
Tags: "Pax et bonum", Catholic schools, Latin Mass, Linden Street, Missionary Franciscan Sisters, Our Lady of Mount Carmel-St. Anthony, Park Hill, St. Francis of Assisi, Waverly Street, Willow Street, Yonkers
The title is a reference to an old, early song called “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream” — which song has absolutely nothing to do with what’s on my mind, except that last night I listened to Dylan’s masterpiece, “Series of Dreams,” and that set off a series of thoughts, one of which was that Dylan’s got [...]
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Tags: "Frankie Lee and Judas Priest", "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine", "Never Say Goodbye", "Planet Waves", Bob Dylan, dreams, intepreting dreams, remembering dreams
