There are certain inalienable elements of our ego that go right to our core; things that must be acknowledged and defined oftentimes by dint of severe effort. The book Upstate for me is just that; the kind of integral feature of one’s sense of self that without it you would cease to be defined at all. I’ve been captivated [...]
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Upstate
Posted in Books, Reflections, art, bipolar, manic depression, manic depressive, mental health., publishing, tagged bipolar, depression, hypomania, mania, manic depression, mental health. on March 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Doctor Zhivago & Me
Posted in Books, Home, Reflections, schizoaffective, tagged bipolar, christmas, depression, Reflections, schizoaffective on December 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I made this oil sketch of a lonely but colorful little tree I saw in the middle of a dark area yesterday- a metaphor for the season for some of us; lux in tenebris – light in the heart of darkness. I am often left in wonder of the human animal and their singular attachments of meaning [...]
Winter Reading List
Posted in Books, Reflections, bipolar, manic depression, tagged bipolar, bipolar depression, hypomania, mania, mental health. on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To fill in the doldrums of winter I’ve been re-visiting my seasonal ritual of immersing myself in books that I know to be sure-fire thumping good reads. Lancelot, Walker Percy’s masterpiece of being and moral relativism somehow found its way back into my winter re-reading list. It’s a monologue told from-(surprise!)- a mental [...]
Bookstore Trip
Posted in Books, Literary Resume, Reflections, publishing, tagged fine woodworking, J C Larkin, J Crate larkin on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I pulled a book off the shelf at Barnes & Noble the other week to show the kids what I looked like when I was younger (2001). It was from when I used to write things for Taunton Press Publications. (Selecting and Using Hand Tools- Taunton Press 2005 ) http://books.google.com/books?id=VHR0FNWnPmsC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=j+crate+larkin&source=web&ots=FdrGuRV71v&sig=9qN5OEgl0sJvNeP2KumAKIwAs24&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result Anyway, The kids were amused by [...]
Winter Poet
Posted in Books, Family Matters, Literary Resume, bipolar, tagged philip larkin, poetry, this be the verse bipolar on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My third cousin Philip’s poems have been lately on my mind. He refused the title “Poet Laureate of England” and now I think I can see why; he at least had had enough self-knowledge to recognize that he was a static force; the tonic of lifelong bachelors, especially in clever cynicisms like This Be the [...]
Reading Time
Posted in Books, Reflections, tagged J C Larkin, j larkin, Reflections on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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It’s been rather a quiet week, all things being equal, I feel absolutely shagged after a week of doing nearly nil excepting read Le Mur and L’Etrangerfor the first time since school, in French, and get one or two writing assignments completed. Much better reading than the bulky and unmoored translations- it’s worrying [...]
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