Sep 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
—From CB— I’ve made a resolution I might actually honor: to post on FB nothing relating to political or sociological debate. Those in agreement don’t need it; those who aren’t, don’t listen. I can’t guarantee that I’ll be entirely faithful to my resolution, and I...
Sep 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
—From EF— I wrote this in Facebook today: “A heartfelt plea to all my friends: if you haven’t voted, please. Please do it tomorrow. Please ask your friends if they have voted, and if they haven’t, then beg them. No question this will be contested,...
Sep 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
—From CB— Our daughter is visiting from Italy, where she’s lived for 20+ years. Because of the plague, it’s been a long time. Her brother in San Francisco picked her up from the airport, she stayed there a few days, then yesterday he brought her up to our place. Last...
Aug 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
—From EF— At the simplest level, I think of it in kid terms: a secret way to say something. Or maybe Morse code, a way to say something in a weird formal language that can travel great distances and unbleep and unblip its way back into common speech. Or what about the...
Aug 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
—From CB— I’ve always appreciated surrealism, as long as it knows its place. Nailed to the wall or stamped into print, it’s fine. It’s like salsa on the burrito. It’s refreshing, an expression of the world sifted through a single quirky human—the way a face is...
Aug 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
—From EF— I parked in the library lot on Saturday just as a KPFA program ws kicking off an hour devoted to Nanci Griffith, and they began with “Across the Great Divide,” her cover of Kate Wolf’s signature song for those who listen to KPFA on Sundays....
Aug 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
—From CB— It’s no secret that we live in a culture of multiple realities. That’s been part of life on Earth for at least a couple thousand years, and it’s almost impossible not to be multiple people oneself, depending on whom you’re talking to and why. And there are...
Aug 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
—From EF— We treated ourselves to a night at Salt Point State Park, one of our favorite retreats, and I planned far enough ahead to get a reservation at Site #7. (It’s the best one and is usually booked at least three months in advance.) Set way back in the...
Jul 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
—From CB— For me, a new experience of the printed page. I’ve spent the last two weeks editing. The first volume of Elizabeth’s three-part memoir will appear after the first of the year. It’ll cover the time from her first howl in 1940 to our forming The Independent...
Jul 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
—From EF— I think something is starting to jiggle loose in my mind. Maybe it’s because of the piano. I took a solo day (as each of us does about once a month) to Salt Point State Park and stayed overnight. On the way back, I stopped at Portuguese Beach, put on...
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