Touch. . .

— From EF — Touch is amazingly powerful. It can’t be packaged or monetized or tweeted — you have to get the real thing, in person. There’s a subset of child abuse that’s labeled “failure to thrive,” and one of its big elements appears to be an absence of loving touch....

Memories and Friends…

— From the Fool —             My friend Barnett still talks about high school. Thirty years ago, but it left its mark. He was smart, and in high school that doesn’t pay. Guys punched him in the arm and called him faggot a lot. He turned out to be a lawyer. I see...

In the Dark. . .

— From CB — Sitting now on a shady bench by Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, Elizabeth walking elsewhere, meeting at the car again at 1:30. Friday night, our opening of King Lear in San Francisco. In the small North Beach gallery, a nearly full house of 27. Methodical...

Spring Fools. . .

— From the Fool — I went to this Fool Parade. It was a nice day. There was a band playing pretty loud, and people had funny wigs and noses and bright colored pants and hats and hair and a dog with a baseball cap that peed on a tree. The dog did, I mean. They all...