Still not ready to post about the year, so…
I hope everyone had a Christmas Day of comfort, some joy, and a bit of doing what you wanted to do. I hope this will find you all well.
DISTAL MUSE – OBSERVATIONS, OPINIONS, EPHEMERA, & VIEWS
I may talk about the tragedy later. I had a couple of conversations, saw a few things, felt a great deal, but I need to process it. In the meantime, since we went there for something entirely joyful, let me stick with that for now.
Daniel Kost is Donna’s nephew, the youngest of two brothers. He’s an engineer, an artist, a good guy and a fine human. He’s been living in Dallas practically since he got his degree, so we don’t get to see him much. So when it transpired that he was getting married, naturally we had to attend.
The ceremony, though modified because of a sudden rainstorm, was beautiful.…
Feeling a bit abstracted and commentative this morning. Politics is depressing and energizing at the same time, did you ever notice that? The devouring of the corpus publius…
So photographs.
Wandering the streets, trying to fit what was with what is, seeing the skeleton of what you used to know beneath the layered detritus of the now. I see the same things but they no longer register the same way. Is this, perhaps, nostalgia, intense homesickness, nosta—homecoming—algia—pain?
The past is there, but I am not. I can only note what it once was, testify where it had been, validate the now because the scaffolding of then holds it up.…
Ethan Hawke has a new book out. Yes, that Ethan Hawke. And this Saturday past he stopped at Left Bank Books to sign copies of it. On top of it being Small Business Saturday, it was a rather intense day, and to have this cap it off was…very cool.
New adventures in Photoshop. This is going in the art show. Rest of the day is for writing. Enjoy.
This one was taken on the campus of MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, in the summer of 1988. When needing a break from the workshopping and writing that was Clarion, I’d go for walks with my cameras and find things.
Okay, make that two photographs.
Three…
Okay, I’m done for now. It really was a lovely campus in places. Speaking of writing, I’m going to do more now. Enjoy.…