I heard you arriving last night...

 first winter swell.

FAREWELL

LOUIS STETTNER

93 YEARS OF BEAUTY

Côte Basque

Summer night

not much more you could wish for

then friends, food, family

and the place you love.

the beautiful summer...

the house at Chapala Street

the beret from your father

the red socks that we loved

the bathtub long enough to lie down in

the sounds of the farm workers, singing out back with their guitars

the lace curtain

the striped Mexican blanket

the love that I felt

Teenage hero

of mine

rest in peace

Daniel Berringan

" In the years to come, well into his 80's, Daniel Berrigan was arrested
time and time again, for greater or lesser offenses: in 1980 for taking part in 
the Plowshares Raid on General Electric missile plant in King of Prussia, 
Pa., where the Berrigan brothers and others rained hammer blows on missile
warheads; in 2006, for blocking the entrance to the Intrepid Naval Museum
in Manhaten."


"The day after I am embalmed" he said in 2001, on his 80th birthday, 
that is the day when i will give up."

(The New York Times )

Phot( New York times Obituary )

Photo

Goodbye Billy Paul

December 1934 - Aril 2016

The Philadelphia sound of my childhood...

cooler than cool

Adios Merle

"Silver wings

are taking you away..."

Merle Haggard

6 April 1937 - 6 April 2016

REMEMBRANCE 

OF THINGS 

PAST

YESTERDAY

AND THEN THERE WAS...

TODAY.

I WAS TIRED

AND DIDN'T WANT TO GO DOWN TO THE SEA

WITH HIM

BUT I DID 

AND  AFTER, THOUGHT

WHAT LUCK

When you were small

I used to say 

"Your life is like a storybook"

and then we would recount the places and the times we were happiest...

Now I see you out front

making your own story

heading off to places

and adventures

in that same book

which is now 

yours.

with love, 

Ama

the long walk home...

JACQUES RIVETTE

1928 - 2016

Unsung hero of French New Wave Cinema.

"A man who could meld  Carroll, Proust, and Cocteau

into something magical. "

BEAUTIFUL

D  R  E  A  M  E  R

STORMY WEATHER

DAVID BOWIE

JANUARY 1947 - JANUARY 2016

The way last Sunday was

when the waves got big

and the day

was 

perfect

through my 

1957 

binoculars...

home.

FAREWELL

VILMOS ZSIGMOND

LIGHT 

THE RIGHT TIME OF DAY

AND 

COURAGE

"We figured out early on that if you shot film at the right time of day
you didn't need lights..."

A stroke of good luck

last sunset 

last day of 

holidays

into 

the void

the long reach of winter light...

as we say goodbye

to 2015

Adieu

Adieu

Farewell 

Ellsworth Kelly

May 1923 - December 2015

92 years of beautiful  art

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/08/ellsworth-kelly-want-to-live-another-15-years-monograph-phaidon-tricia-paik

mostly beautiful

our little "shire"

as we lovingly call it

and then the sun sets fast

on these December days

more than beautiful

to feel the rain come

after these long years of drought

Dawn Patrol

5:45 a.m.

Cronkite  Beach

It seems crazy

the idea of it

To get into that cold Pacific 

and watch the sunrise 

and hear the tugs 

coming out of the 

Golden Gate

ready to guide the tanker ships

under the bridge

The ships that have come

all the way from 

China

Then all of a sudden

everything changes

the light

the waves

the gulls passing overhead

and everyone feels happy to be alive

and lucky

to know this thing

When you come from the water

cold, and with frozen hands

and I put on the heater

saying

"hurry, hurry

it's time for school"

And we leave the magic

but it stays all day

deep inside of you 

until the next day

the next sunrise

the next sunset 

over the cold Pacific

we call home.

WHAT THE SEA

AND THE SKY

AND THE SALT

LOOK LIKE

HERE

IN NOVEMBER

"Ay de mi

Llorona, Llorona

Llorona,  de azul celeste"

DIA DE LOS MUERTES

1 NOVIEMBRE 2015

we are

waiting

here at the end of the world

in some sort of beauty

suspended

in silence

We are 

"Tangled up in blue..."

The blue of leaving summer

The blue of a mother dying

The autumn blue of the sea, 

dark and holding secrets.