Yesterday at work at my employer’s granite showroom, for the four pre-teen daughters of a visiting couple, I shared, on the new violin finish Ibanez guitar I bought for Christmas this year, a song I created about 48 years ago. The song was improvised on the second guitar I ever owned, in the living room at 2016 S. Whittier Ave. [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Dr. Steven Shymansky: My Nephew’s Song
Posted in arts, Blogroll, poetry, Shymansky, Uncategorized, tagged Shymansky on December 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
new poem: Season of Love
Posted in arts, Blogroll, poetry, Uncategorized, writing on December 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Season of Love by Job Conger It’s the time of the season, people go into hock buying presents for others and enduring the schlock – the retail overselling – as we push and we shove. It’s a shame we forget that it’s a season of love. – From a brother to sister, from a mom [...]
Awakening to Sunlight
Posted in aviation, Blogroll, Uncategorized, writing on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t remember the last time I walked from my bedroom to my kitchen for a first cup of coffee without turning on a few lights. For the past two weeks I’ve been driving out to the AeroKnow Museum, sometimes at 4:40, sometimes 6:40, all in darkness. Frequently recently, I’ve had dinner after arriving home [...]
You Should Know Poet A.D. Carson
Posted in arts, Blogroll, poetry, Uncategorized, writing on December 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
An artists’ coop — make that co-op — rented by a group of visual artists, serves many artists. Those that chip in and help with the rent, the visuals, use it as a studio. There are paints finished paintings, easels, works in progress everywhere and words of the prophets written on the gallery walls. Every fourth [...]
Keeping My Cool
Posted in arts, Blogroll, poetry, Uncategorized, writing on December 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Some poetry bloggers have recently subscribed and probably learned by now that I don’t post poetry every day or every time here at H&Q. When I post a poem, the subject will alway begin with “new poem” followed by the title. Most of the poems I share will have been created recently, but since no [...]
Poetry Internacional, Springfield, Illinois
Posted in arts, Blogroll, poetry, Uncategorized, writing on December 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
One of the rewards of most any blog, including Honey & Quinine, is touching people I would never meet, even if I could fly across oceans . . . even if I could ride in an airplane that would fly across oceans. I subscribe to several WordPress poets’ blogs, and several poets, including two in [...]
The Camp-In Continues
Posted in Blogroll, Uncategorized, writing on December 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My friend Joe Coffey recently explained he and his fine fam sometimes delay turning on their furnace at home until December with a little help from frequent laundry ops, cooking dinner in the kitchen for the family and sometimes a little fire in the flaming place and flaming in the fireplace. With only myself to [...]
