Author Archives: JRL

Somewhere a song of victory is waitingfor someone brave enough to write it down,once they slip past the barricades downtownwhere both sides are engaged in pointless hating. Until such time, what good is celebrating?Such tunes will just distract us as … Continue reading →

As Danny Kaye asked in a fabulous number from White Christmas: “The theater, the theater, what happened to the theater? We can no longer call it dance, we call it choreography!” If life is in fact nothing more than musical … Continue reading →

I don’t need to hold the whole moon. I’m the pond. I am the dewdrop. A reflection is more than enough. Let me worry about holding a whole satellite once I’ve reached the ocean. Then the moon and I will … Continue reading →

Nobody ever shouts out the answer.It’s that kind of world, but it’s not that kind of answer. You see, the answer is substance, not style.It’s the main program, not the advertisements strewn in between pithy segments,designed to lure you into … Continue reading →

God. Goddess. Universe. Life Force. Prana. The Absolute. Reality. Brahma. Beauty. Truth. Time-Space. The Void. Any of those oft capitalized attempts at assigning a definite label to an infinite indefinite. Borrow one from another language; it still doesn’t quite capture … Continue reading →

There is so much to say, but I don’t have the words. If I could explain the way it seems to me,I’m not sure you could hear it. That’s OK. You need to listen to your own voice,the one that … Continue reading →

So many miles and so much timefrom that first step to this:a constant walking, seeking for what?A clue, a job, a mate, a guru. You have come so far and accomplished exactly nothing.Whatever you have done, the things you accumulate:conquests, … Continue reading →