Old Man of the Frontier Loses Horse The Bitter Withy ____________________ Dating to the 2nd century B.C. The story exemplifies the view of Taoism regarding regarding “fortune” (“good luck”) and “misfortune” (“bad luck”). Good luck and bad luck create each otherand it is difficult to foresee their change.A righteous man lived near the border.For no reason, […]

Pomona Valley and Claremont (Circa 1920) Essence of the Sun __________________ I’m originally from LA and spent my high school years in Claremont, California. It’s a town in the Pomona Valley, an hour east of downtown LA off Interstate 10. An hour east of Claremont, through the pass of the two great mountains of San […]

An Autobiography The Aztec Sun God / Horace Silver ________________________ Tonight, on the porch over a few glasses of Pinot, we discussed the idea for a story told by a tree rather than a person. After all, stories told by people are getting to be pretty boring and repetive for me. I don’t know how […]

Impressions / McCoy Tyner ___________________________ John Fraim Every once in a while a social trend book pokes its sales head above the others and becomes a topic of popular discussion. One of these books was called Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam. Published in 2001 at the beginning of […]

A POWERFUL SCREENPLAY OFFERS A UNIQUE READING EXPERIENCE Jack Gillis (William Holden) at Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) Mansion That Old Black Magic _____________________________ Sunset Boulevard is the setting for one of the great films of all time. The supposed setting of the great film Sunset Boulevard is in this exclusive part of Sunset – like […]