NEGATIVE CAPABILITY:TALKING ABOUT ART
SEMANTICS: when I say art, I mean art in all its forms, from poetry to visual art to music. I find Keats' term still useful -- more...
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Doug Anderson
- Apr 8, 2021
- 3 min
"REAL ID" AND THE LEGACY OF GEORGE W. BUSH
(Right center and tallest, the 9/11 Monument in Lower Manhattan) Yesterday I applied to renew my driver’s license with the requisite...
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Doug Anderson
- Mar 23, 2021
- 2 min
MORNINGS ARE HARD
March 23, 2021 Some mornings it takes me an hour or two to remember a good thing, or remember with pleasure a project, some writing, or...
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Doug Anderson
- Feb 27, 2021
- 5 min
WONDER, MYSTERY, LONGING, BELIEF, ANGER, SUFFERING, POETRY, AND THE INADEQUACY OF CERTAIN WORDS
Eagle Coffin, by Paa Joe The BBC recently posted an essay about the possibility that religion is an essential human need, like food and...
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Doug Anderson
- Feb 16, 2021
- 4 min
THE BONDAGE OF SELF
Art from Installation by Ledelle Moe “Before, I always lived in anticipation, I had the feeling that nothing I did was the “real” thing,...
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Doug Anderson
- Feb 14, 2021
- 3 min
WHEN THE OLD REPEAT THEIR STORIES
My father was stationed with a PT boat squadron in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. He'd been drafted at thirty-seven years old...
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Doug Anderson
- Feb 14, 2021
- 1 min
The Myth is Real
From Horse Medicine LIVE MYTH I would believe in the unicorn if it stood heaving and slathered, snapping flies off its flanks with its...
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Doug Anderson
- Feb 10, 2021
- 1 min
What if
WHAT IF I WROTE A POEM About being seventy-seven and trying not to speculate how long I’ve got left and I loved a woman who was far away...
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Doug Anderson
- Feb 6, 2021
- 3 min
A RIPENING HEART: WAITING OUT COVID
I’m an introvert, which helps, I suppose, but the isolation is getting to me after nearly a year. I’m a member of a Zoom meditation...
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Doug Anderson
- Feb 5, 2021
- 4 min
FOOD IS LOVE: MY GRANDMOTHER, BIRDIE BRADBERRY WISEMAN
When I came home from Vietnam in nineteen sixty-eight my mother took me to see the foundation of the house she grew up in in Hickman,...
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Doug Anderson
- Jan 31, 2021
- 2 min
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?"
Because I've lived a fairly long life I have a sense that history is real, and that includes a history of consciousness. There are people...
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Doug Anderson
- Jan 14, 2021
- 2 min
YOU'VE MADE YOUR BED, NOW LIE IN IT
All but ten Republicans in Congress and the Senate are afraid of voting to impeach Donald Trump because they fear the violence of the...
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Doug Anderson
- Jan 10, 2021
- 2 min
THE INSURRECTION: A LONG TIME COMING
Painting by the great black artist, Faith Ringgold. Apologies for a slight crop. The events of January 6 did not come out of thin air....
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Doug Anderson
- Jan 7, 2021
- 2 min
SOME OF US SAW IT COMING: THE WORST PRESIDENCY IN AMERICAN HISTORY AND ITS REPUBLICAN ENABLERS
Yesterday we watched the predictable outcome of a Republican coups that has been building since Ronald Reagan taxed Social Security. He,...
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Doug Anderson
- Jan 2, 2021
- 4 min
IF POETRY WERE TO DISAPPEAR OVERNIGHT WOULD YOU MISS IT?
Sappho, the Metropolitan Museum of Art “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is...
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Doug Anderson
- Dec 29, 2020
- 5 min
NOSTALGIA
In my undergraduate days nostalgia was passed off as a form of sentimentality. We were reading Sartre and were anti-sentimental. There...
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Doug Anderson
- Dec 27, 2020
- 2 min
VIETNAM IS NOT A WAR, Part I
Above photo is at the village of Dong Loc where there is a shrine for ten little girls killed by American bombs. Bruce Weigl is the tall...
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Doug Anderson
- Dec 26, 2020
- 2 min
BACKROADS OF NEW ENGLAND
I like nothing better than to grab the camera, get in the car and start driving. I often don't know where I'm going when I start out but...
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Doug Anderson
- Dec 25, 2020
- 4 min
Brokenness
I woke this morning and somewhere between my orange and my cereal remembered it's Christmas Day. This has been a hard Christmas. The...
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Doug Anderson
- Dec 24, 2020
- 1 min
Faith and All That
In the Quran, Maryam (Mary) gives birth to Jesus (Isa) under a palm tree. She is alone--no Joseph, no manger, no wise men, no warm...
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