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Milestones
Turning the Corner
By: - Oct 25th, 2015Places to go and things to be done. Hacking and coughing waking up to first day of 75th year.
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Kicks
From Beatle Boots to Docksiders
By: - Oct 24th, 2015After a year or more shoes are like old friends. Well worn and beat up they glide easy where you want to go. Now 75 it's not about fashion. Back in the day it was strictly Beatle Boots and pimp kicks from Crystal's in the Zone.
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Unequivocal
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Subway Sirens
Queens of the T
By: - Oct 17th, 2015All over the T in every station that same girl in the ubiquitous Ann Taylor ads selling attitude and generic career girl fashions.
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Letter to Chris Busa
For No Good Reason
By: - Oct 10th, 2015For no good reason. Remembering recent encounters in Provincetown I wrote to my friend Chris Busa. We don't do this often enough. Every thought and impulse evokes the best and worst of us. How Pinteresque.
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Bicycle Thief
Like Gatsby
By: - Oct 10th, 2015My French friend Alain Didot was a dead ringer for film star Alain Delon. But in spirit was more like Genet or Belmondo in Breathless. Today in an e mail from Thailand Phil Bleeth mentioned our existential friend which inspired these lines.
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Harvard Mug
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Mingus Ah Um
Pithecanthropus Erectus
By: - Oct 09th, 2015Mingus and Monk were stone cold gone. Another way of saying total out there genius.
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Dizzy
Grroving High with a Bahai
By: - Oct 08th, 2015I named by parakeet Dizzy Gillespie. Hanging with iconic hipster in a cruise of Boston Harbor with arts elder Elma Lewis.
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Century
Benchmark of Time and Space
By: - Oct 08th, 2015It takes guts to grow old. Such courage to live into one's ninety's like my mom. Or the remarkable, adventuresome Rikki Rudd, beloved by the Berkshire arts community, who has just passed at the daunting age of 102.
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Gravy
Dinner in Naples with Paulie Walnuts
By: - Oct 06th, 2015Pasta made with the ink of octopus or squid served with tiny clams is a great Italian delicacy. But not to Paulie Walnuts in Naples during an episode of the Sopranos.
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Every Other Sunday
Dad in the Kitchen
By: - Oct 06th, 2015On maid's day off, every other Sunday and Thursdays my Sicilian father rustled up the grub.
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Whipped Cream
Sweetens the Agita
By: - Oct 06th, 2015When coping with the slings and arrows of life a dollop of whipped cream soothes the soul.
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Death in Boston
Where Cabots Speak Only to Lowells
By: - Oct 06th, 2015While lecturing at the Copley Society the architect Frank Lloyd Wright told the audience " What Boston needs is one hundred first class funerals."
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Shooting into the Ranks
The Mighty Are Falling
By: - Oct 04th, 2015Every more common reports of friends diseased and dead. Given our age my friend said "They're shooting into the ranks."
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Festival
Art in Narrow Streets
By: - Oct 03rd, 2015Come early and stay late. Staying for a week by the sea for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival. Four intense days of performances bookended by walks on the beach.
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Random
Polka Dots and Moon Beams
By: - Oct 03rd, 2015Shocked to learn that a former neighbor in Annisquam, Ben Hedbloom, died last week.
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Rastas in P'Town
Taste of Home Cooking
By: - Oct 02nd, 2015With seasonal work visas the Jamaicans staff Provincetown restaurants and motels. For a good meal that reminds them of home there is takeout at the colorful food shack on Shankpainter road. The goat curry stew we tried was simply divine.
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Vico
Privincetown Tales
By: - Oct 01st, 2015We met our artist friends Vico and Grace for a leisurely Sunday brunch on a glorious fall day in Provincetown. With full body language, shrugs, and accents Vico entertained us with a hilarious story of a scary encounter.
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Reign in Spain
Tropical Depression
By: - Sep 30th, 2015Last week in Provincetown we had glorious late September weather. Today a tropical storm is soaking the Berkshires. It's a good day to just stay in bed so she said.
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Eclipse
09/27/2015
By: - Sep 28th, 2015From the beach in Truro, looking up into the clear night sky, we watched the first lunar eclipse in thirty years.
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Harvest Moon
Late September in Truro
By: - Sep 27th, 2015Bookending summer. In Truro in May, when the town comes away, then late September when it winds down. Three performances a day during Ten on Tenn. Tonight the harvest moon with an eclipse. Sand in our shoes to shake off in the city.
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Lost and Found
With a Photo Spoof
By: - Sep 18th, 2015When you’ve lost your set of keys / You, once again, realize the complexities in your life.... is the beginning of a poem and photo series. Who cannot relate to that or other 'lost' things or time and many other unfortunate circumstances in life? Keys, in fact, are just a small matter and my excuse to photograph in September the remaining glory of our garden.
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Bonsai
A Forty-year-old Ficus
By: - Sep 18th, 2015We don't keep pets but in a way plants are among our loved ones. Astrid nurses them through winter but gave up on the diseased bonsai riddled with sticky leaves and scale. With last ditch triage I removed the leaves and pruned it to a stump. We changed the soil a team effort that has now seemingly paid off. At least for now.
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Anniversary
Say it with Flowers
By: - Sep 17th, 2015On Wednesday nights I rushed from one teaching gig to another. Touching base at home in East Boston before a commute to U. Mass Lowell. Always bought a bouquet of flowers at the Arlington T stop. It was a weekly ritual that now and then I forgot. Until the first frost Astrid has bouquets in every room.
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