Green Walnuts (quartered)
Month: May 2022
‘Twas a good breakfast
The small loaf version — Blueberry-Basil Cornbread
and to the nose, like a lovely Lady in Waiting
Multiflora rose Thunberg
The Life You Give: John Bonham *1948
Drummer John Bonham, often referred to by his nickname "Bonzo," was one of the most important and influential drummers of the 1960s and '70s -- as a member of Led Zeppelin, he was also a bona fide superstar for the last decade of his life and, along with Ringo Starr of the Beatles, Charlie Watts… Continue reading The Life You Give: John Bonham *1948
The Life You Give: Shirley Verrett *1931
Shirley Verrett was one of America's finest opera stars and recital singers, and was one of the remarkable generation of great African-American singers who came to international prominence in the 1950s and 1960s.She studied voice in Los Angeles with Anna Fitziu and Hall Johnson. In 1955, she won the nationally broadcast CBS program Arthur Godfrey's… Continue reading The Life You Give: Shirley Verrett *1931
Life, adjusted, again
between the realm of the thought, the philosophical, intellectual, that of the rational inclinations, desires and the realm of the spirit, of the soul, of the all encompassing nothing, and the miniscule totality, needless of being tangible, yet tuned to the true sense of rivers somewhere in between to the touch of both life has… Continue reading Life, adjusted, again
Two sides of being vane
Dozens over dozens of postings appear around May and June every year, not because they are necessarily posted at this point but because hundreds over hundreds of individuals may be searching for guidance, as they embark on their first tries at making any of those macerated spirits containing green walnuts. And in all these postings,… Continue reading Two sides of being vane
Small Blueberry-Basil Cornbreads baked, in the midst of Green Walnuts
The Life You Give: Pauline Oliveros *1932
Pauline Oliveros, born May 30, 1932, in Houston, Texas, U.S.A., is the composer and performer known for conceiving a unique, meditative, improvisatory approach to music called “deep listening.”Oliveros was raised in a family that encouraged involvement with music. At age 10 she was introduced to the accordion by her mother, who was a pianist. Oliveros… Continue reading The Life You Give: Pauline Oliveros *1932
Detail, as the larger picture
Multiflora rose Thunberg An essay on viewing a detail, not as a part of an object, rather as the object in its momentary context.
Green Walnut ink on Paper
(Cutting surface for green walnuts)
Debris (June 2020)
Green walnuts, coffee, vanilla
Who is rejoicing in the perpetual blooming? Mother? Daughter? Spirit?
Multiflora rose Thunberg
Maceration about to begin
four liter jar
Beauties in maturity, beauties in immaturity
Green walnut / Juglans regia Linnaeus
The Life You Give: Iannis Xenakis *1922
Iannis Xenakis, born May 29, 1922, in Brăila, Romania, is the Romanian-born French composer, architect, and mathematician who originated musique stochastique, music composed with the aid of electronic computers and based upon mathematical probability systems.Xenakis was born to a wealthy family of Greek ancestry, and he moved to Greece in 1932. He fought in the… Continue reading The Life You Give: Iannis Xenakis *1922
The Life You Give: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau *1925
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, born May 28, 1925, in Berlin, Germany, was an operatic baritone and preeminent singer of lieder, distinguished for his lyrical voice, commanding presence, and superb artistry. Fischer-Dieskau studied with Georg Walter before serving in World War II and with Hermann Weissenborn afterward. In 1947 he made his concert debut in Johannes Brahms’s Ein… Continue reading The Life You Give: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau *1925
The Life You Give: György Ligeti *1923
György Ligeti, born György Sándor Ligeti, May 28, 1923, in Diciosânmartin [now Tîrnăveni], Transylvania, Romania, is a leading composer of the branch of avant-garde music concerned principally with shifting masses of sound and tone colours.Ligeti, the great-nephew of violinist Leopold Auer, studied and taught music in Hungary until the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, when he… Continue reading The Life You Give: György Ligeti *1923
May levels of appreciation for the simple be raised, by photographing nothings
Lettuce
One hundred and three Green Walnuts
Juglans regia Linnaeus
Green Walnut — with San Giovanni, Saint-Jean, and Sant Joan, it is Nocino, Vin de Noix, and Ratafia — in New York it is my way
In New York, New York, just like in Italy, Spain, and France, the twenty-forth of June is upon us. It is the time of the year in which humans interject nature, as they often do. Throughout the history of mankind, we have been observing our environment, and, in various instances — instead of taking the… Continue reading Green Walnut — with San Giovanni, Saint-Jean, and Sant Joan, it is Nocino, Vin de Noix, and Ratafia — in New York it is my way
Sila Blume 