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Inspect Reflect Respect Inflect Dissect Connect Correct Check

Poetry begins this way. Interesting words, names, clever meaning, rhyming to remember better… I am reminded of a time I told the story of the Solar System, as the newest planet was stripped of his planetary status. From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet. In the late 1970s, following…
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As the watchers watch

From outside of time the watchers watch. They fill up the clocks with ticks and tocks, The audience forms. They wait, they talk, Toss popcorn, sip soda. Lights dim. Time stops. Music and Lights… The show begins. For the 11th time in 2012, the Santa Cruz Film Fest began. The sparse artistic film community arrived…
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Black Water Dragon, but first, the History of PEACE

NOTES TO SELF This post is very rough. Just gathering some ideas for a future theatrical project. But, read on if you are interested in some factoids about time. Western Time Origin Story In my study of time and time travel, today I am collecting information from the east and from the west. First, in…
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Sunset Mist Memorials

At 4:20 this morning I am missing my mom and my sisters. Our family Christmas eve dinner and phone calls whisked by too fast, and our annual McNamee Girls shopping trip to the city was also over too soon. Pictures flash through my mind’s eye; Maureen with a big bag of recently discovered extra presents…
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Sleeping beauty in the light

Dear Spirit Suchi Gabrielle, I thought of everyone I ever loved this morning at sunrise as I wondered if you my friend would ever awaken for one last time… give a look from your eyes, a squeeze from your hands, share spooning naps with your dear beloveds, or cuddle your boys Krishna and Bubblily. I…
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Do You Want to Live Forever? Really?

In a world where no one ever dies, what gives life purpose? In the Maze Game, Diana Slattery has created an amazing work of science fiction that probes certain questions of the future in a way that is unfamiliar, disturbing, beautiful and cruelly savage. Think “All that Jazz” meets “Tron” with Captain Jack Barishnokov and the…
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Laser Light Bill Nordsrom

An Unsung Master of Media Fine Arts I took Rene’s painting to the fine art reproduction studio. There was a lovely man there, the master color artist Bill Nordstrom, who has during his fifty years as a colorist learned the art of photographic and then digital color separations. He so loves the art of color…
