• A little self-exploration with Papa’s help

    Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:45 AM. A little bit of snow on the ground. Well, I am a little tired this morning, a little out of tune. But if you can stand it, Papa, I guess I can. Now that you have gotten your books mostly packed, you should look around and be sure you…

  • Medicines of Light

    I find myself in a funny position, in that I don’t necessarily pay a lot of attention to channeled material, much of it seeming to me to be contaminated and ego-driven. But this by Tom Kenyon on behalf of those he calls the Hathors rings true, and not only rings true, it echoes stuff I’ve…

  • Moving on (cont’d)

    So here I am in what might be described as Day 21 of the Unpacking  Hostage Crisis. Well, okay, not that bad.  With the extensive and artistic help of my friend Nancy, I have managed to bring my new lodgings into not only livable, but actually quite pleasing, shape. And in record time, too. The…

  • If you need to do more — slow down!

    Computers are time machines. We write emails and other things, put them out there in cyberspace, then when we’re least expecting it, we stumble upon them like messages in a bottle from ourselves to ourselves. Case in point, my March, 2011, monthly column for The Meta Arts magazine (http://www.themetaarts.com/pages/frankdemarco.html). Because the columns have to be…

  • Ventura and the Highway of Life

    So there’s this book of essays by Michael Ventura, with photos by Butch Hancock, called If I Was a Highway, published by Texas Tech University Press (ttup@ttu.edu, or www.ttupress.org). It’s a hardcover,  7.5 x 9.5 inches, 236 pages, $30 but you can get it at Amazon for $22. * * * Back in the 1980s, while…

  • Ice Age cave painters and scientific myths

      This story, courtesy of the Weekly Science Report put together by Steve Detwiler, makes me laugh, it is so naïve. “To me at least, finding these great paintings from so far back in time is a bit like finding an iPad with no previous evidence of the development of electronics. How does humanity plunge…

  • Hemingway on government and Harry Morgan and us

    I am putting together a book of my conversations with Hemingway, with the intent of showing him from the inside. Regard these as merely imaginary conversations, if it makes you feel more comfortable with them. Whatever the source, the wisdom and the point of view they reveal repeatedly surprises me. As this, from a year…

  • Kerouac on Hemingway and living connected

    I don’t think I posted this here. Thursday, December 2, 2010 7:30 AM. It is interesting that when I came to this each morning, expecting information, it came, and when I don’t, it doesn’t. There’s something to think about, there. Oh, and I am reading Kerouac’s Desolation Angels, slowly, and I find Kerouac so without…

  • The guys upstairs on models of the truth

    Tuesday, April 26, 2011 It feels like I may be about to reestablish my routine, which would be nice. It’s 10 till 7 AM, I’m at my desk, which is roughly in shape for me to do some work, and I’m motivated. A little at sea as to where to proceed, though. I suppose I…

  • Unsuspected forms of communication

    A message from the guys upstairs, who apparently are ready to stir the pot in a big way, depending upon how  receptive I am. Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:30 AM. All right, let’s get to the topic. I have been working with two rough schemes that contradict each other, and you said yesterday you would…