My favorite joyful dance group! The Ghetto Kids Do you remember the first time in political life you heard the Democratic candidate for...

As  a returning piano student starting at age 76 in 2020 after a 58-year gap to do other art and business-related things, joy in making...

I sometimes lose my creative muse. Especially during the last 100 days and starting about four months before last November 6, she goes...

The US entertainment industry has been the single major feature behind the world-domInant export of US-style culture and values to the...

Eyes shining and a warm heart was my overall feeling when I left San Francisco's Davies Hall Friday night after hearing renowned...

"Poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities" It doesn't seem to address the moral outrage of we...

"All aspects of the human condition are somehow related to politics" says Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition (published 1958). That's...

DO YOU KNOW THE FEELING OF NOT BEING ABLE TO BREATHE IN THE MOMENTS AFTER YOU FALL A LONG DISTANCE, AND HIT THE FLOOR WITH FORCE? Please...

I was gobsmacked to run across an online ad for the cutest ever toy - a realistic faux-fur covered mini-bunny. Here's what it said:...

Sometimes we just need a smile or a good laugh. I'm feeling that way recently. And I'm recently thinking about repurposing, because at...

I was stunned to read in our Feb. 25 SF Examiner online that: San Francisco’s International Pride Orchestra says it was “disinvited”...

What a manifique second-ever GROUPMUSE concert at the San Francisco public branch library in Glen Park on February 9 on a relaxed, sunny...

Watching and listening to the celebration of life and benediction at Jimmy Carter's memorial service this morning, I realized that...

I am dedicating this blog to one of the most outstanding of our US Presidents and a hero of mine, Jimmy Carter (10.1.24 -...

"A" is the first letter of the English alphabet (here calligraphed on parchment and gilded by me some years ago), and the perfect way to...

"The Golden Rule, a version of which is appears in all major spiritual and ethical traditions, may be the most narcissistic of our moral...

When I opened up a blank page on which to write today's music or poetry blog, a full third of the bottom of the page was occupied with a...

Do you notice how sometimes you set out in one direction toward a location only to end up headed in another direction and landing at...

The Phoenix Bird statue, carved out of the remains of a burned out tree and living now on the patio of Nepenthe, my favorite restaurant...

My A.I.-generated picture of "frivolous"; is she holding a plum? (read on) Does poetry have to have a meaning, or an "essential truth"...