BIRTHDAY
On this day I turn a year older a little wiser and a bit bolder, grateful to have come this far my body aging like an old car and I am tempted to compare myself to old pictures n’ stare, at a man who has always been in his heart, still only nineteen but […]
The Decameron
The Decameron (nicknamed l’Umana commedia (“the Human comedy”)), is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men; they shelter in a secluded villa just outside Florence […]
RE-CREATION
The artists either create something new or re-create something which exists in view. Neither is better than the other really a perfect copy created or original birthed. The fun is in the doing in the making something from nothing that is yours. A.G. Munson
Captain Cook
Captain James Cook (1728-1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer, who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779. He completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand, and led the first recorded visit by Europeans to the east coast […]
SPIRITUALLY AWAKENED
I believe myself to have spiritually awakened, this having happened gradually over the last few years due to a health crisis and recovery, blended together with a midlife crisis. This caused me to re-evaluate everything from the ground up, change my habits and set the focus on what really matters to me alone. My […]