Desde La Habana {Dibujas y Recuerdos}

…. “Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just [...]

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On This Sweet, Rainy Evening

    The Arms That Wouldn’t Let Me Go   On this sweet, rainy evening My thoughts run to you Like water towards the ocean In the city’s gutters and roofs Towards countless drainstorms Powerless in the face Of a calculated incline.   It is a sweet rain that is falling tonight It wears your [...]

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Scenes from Parapluies de Cherbourg Thank you Dianna.

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What a Difference a Year Makes {Escape Velocity}

Escape Velocity I wake up in San Francisco. I attained Escape velocity From you and your gravity Your slate roofs ( to my terracotta tiles). The bee drinks from the flowers in the fields Liberally There is only So much happiness in one day. I lost words They slipped by and became dreams And in dreaming, perfect [...]

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Reading Tea Leaves (and Fortune Cookies)

Well, this is no good! August is almost here and once again balmy summer days flew by with traveling, urban escapades and some R&R…while the postings have been mighty sparse. I have been a curious tourist in my own city and state, and, in between summer courses,  the roamings included a visit to Joshua Tree National Park, Much [...]

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Fragments of Dreams

This has started to be a weekly blog, and I am not too happy about it. This Quarter has been so intense in a stupendous way: I am involved in a myriad of exciting projects at the school and became involved in new committees – and that has meant less free time, but an overall [...]

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Rear Facing Window

From Rear Facing Window Alfred Hitchcock Lisa: I wish I were creative. Jeff: You are. You’re great at creating difficult situations.

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Right Brain Drawing and Learning to See

I hope everyone’s having a fabulous beginning of August. I am really trying. I plan to go to some movie under the stars, or at the park, or on a roof, like Cinema Paradiso. A good black and white movie, preferably a noir Hitchcock, would be the cat’s meow. I am officially suffering from wanderlust.  [...]

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House, MD and Architecture: (medical) misteries and set design

I am a huge fan of House, MD, not only because the writing is refreshing and clever  (Cuddy:  I have a case! House: Beer? )and the ‘hero’ is an anti-herowith serious flaws but a rugged, sarcastic way of caring — I love the show because there is a link between House and Sherlock Holmes – and [...]

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Finding Poetry on a Student’s Desk

Today I found Emerson, Rainer Maria Rilke and Whitman of  O Captain! My Captain! hanging out by a student’s desk. (what color is poetry?)  Hemingway was smoking a pipe on the corner, looking at William Carlos Williams. Yeats and Frost were conversing on the road not taken, and Sandburg was thinking about stopping by the [...]

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