Maya Deren’s film Meditations on Violence – it took us months to find it online a few years ago. Chao Li Chi, who danced in the film, is our Tai Chi teacher (for the last 20 years) and also married us in a Taoist companionating ceremony.

A woman who was doing a film about maya deren found Chao Li and came to the Pacific Asia Museum where he teaches on Saturday mornings and filmed some of us (not me). I’ve lost track of her project. Deren was way ahead of her time. It seems to me that avante garde has become derriere garde. Who is avant garde today?

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and go and do that, because what the world really needs is more people in it who have come alive.

Thank you so much for your comment on Unamuno; you read it at a fellow Salon Bloggers site, that of the gifted artist and connaisseur Michael Parker. I recognized the post almost as soon as I read the first sentence, and it reminded me I am long overdue to catch up with my Salon Blogs brethren.

I saw The Band, well, Rick and Levon a few years back on a Mississippi river boat during the King Bisquit Blues Festival. What a show!
Emmylou, Willie, Kottke, Cale were regulars in this neck of the woods since their beginning.
Willie, Doc Watson and Bela Fleck play Eureka every year, to name a few for a town of two thousand we have a lot of fun.
Parsons is a must on the past away list.
Still living and I think overlooked. David Bromberg !
Dr John was here last night. I sold him a Tux many years ago for a week of performances at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel. He gave me two tickets for each night.

You’ll notice I repeat the wording “too soon gone” twice in my post. That’s the name of the song surviving members of the Band wrote about Richard Manuel. It’s very moving.