I remember a long time ago, finding a Life (or Look) magazine at a swap meet in Arizona, on the outskirts of Tucson. Man, those were the days – 1977. Every sort of snow bird and desert rat out there swapping any number of a million things: from shrunken and powdered dog testicles (for the prostate issues of …
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.” –– Mark Twain by Paul Haeder / December 30th, 2020 First, the blatant insipid nature of National Propaganda Radio and “(Not) All Things Considered.” You know, the so-called liberal media that is so-so cutting edge, leftist. How rotten the world is, and how valiant the workers are, …
for my wife on the 2020 terminus tucked-in neckspushing against westwardwind, reminders of strengthof nature, ourhuman foiblesdeadly dramas you have shroudsrainbow serapeslayers covering so much –father’s familial dementiasevere religious dogmaa sister’s daily protectionas you held back whatyou could for a brother awakenings at the coronaof upthrusted earthrising to Pacificyou find a new youlayers peeled awaystill …
You can fool most of the people most of the time. P. T. Barnum Someone said, “If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say anything.” Oh, the idiocy of America! Shit-dog, this country, now, and going back when I was in my teens (13 when my family moved us from Paris, …
sayonara The Year of Beginning a Century of Buffoons and Devils gum tree outsidespasmatic limbsroots reaching skygreat blue heron squadronsabove filigree tipsagate sheen murdercrows by a dozenespying me watch powder blue, fog, rain,monsoon, electricsunrise, I hear tidal churn downroad, closed-tight windowhermetic darting betaat fingertips, clacking awaywords flow staccato breathing ‘have typewriter, will travel’2020 world stagnatedviral …
Angling for New Beginnings – Recovering Time, Faith, Memory more than a survivor’s tale – a story recalled by those in everlasting recovery by Paul Haeder / December 11th, 2020 prefiguring Dante’s circlesthis father squeezed gravityhateful and alcoholic parentsmodels of daily pugilismhe turned into teenwarped by progenitors predator, mean as cussfinds bullshit Navyplace to repressuntil …
for friend Barbara, her loss, as I write from her POV by Paul Haeder / December 6th, 2020 I am pulling out soot-coveredmemories, fires in the hillsreminder of Portlander:Candee was her namelost for one month in caregone in half a day home hospiceI had forgotten this utility trailera lifetime of my things, photos, past lives …
years growing up in Chile and then San Francisco grafted her life toward socialism Before heading over to interview this subject, I was thinking of a possible epigraph for the piece. One from a Chilean: “Discovery is not seeing what there is (that is impossible at any level), but rather allowing oneself to converge towards …
there has always been reset after reset once the white race invaded Turtle Island . . . Nothing New Under the Sun, man . . . theft, bribes, murder, maiming, polluting, colonizing, absolute control of the masses! It’s an unprecedented coalition of business networks that have come together to raise our ambition. Not just to …
art and a pandemic — creators struggle for intellectual, emotional, financial validation & lifelines There’s a tremendous power in this place, in this land, and I think that power really changes people’s lives. — Frank Boyden, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. A large number of the most creative, skilled, and savvy people in the …
