Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides; And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads, The things of light File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones. A candle in the thighs Warms youth and seed and burns the seeds of … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Light Breaks
All graduate advisors and dissertation directors may want to let their students know that Friday at midnight is not a good time to call your senior colleagues at home to complain about your class schedule. “I am or was asleep, please talk to me at work on Monday” is a hint all, but especially untenured … More The “Backboard Call”
It is the weekend, so despite missing Rising Tide, we must sing. Here is a new cantaor, an archangel, singing a toná. He is really brilliant. Axé.
It is the weekend and I am singing that I hoped to be at Rising Tide and to see you there! I promise I will go next year! Axé.
In Spain, Swedish crime fiction is all the rage. I read Åsa Larsson‘s first novel Sun Storm and it was fascinating, as are most things Nordic. Now I want to see the film and to read recent books as yet untranslated. I would like to find out about Åsa Larsson’s possible preacher father. You, too, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Åsa Larsson
The summer is not actually gone, but for bureaucratic purposes it is, and I am thinking of the next one. My plan is never to spend June and July here again — in New Orleans perhaps, but not in Maringouin, it is too hot and desolate and we have no Andalusian fountains. All speculations about … More Des Chemins
…for the beginning of the semester. 1. Take complete control. 2. Do nothing optional that is not one hundred percent fun. 3. There is no opting out of exercise, sleep, or research/writing. 4. Eat really pure food even if it is too expensive. 5. Go out of town even when it is not really affordable. … More Monday Mantras…
Thinking of what we could sing this weekend, I reviewed many beautiful Mexican videos I could use to celebrate my escape from Spain. I concluded that the best thing I could sing was from A. C. Sandino: I am in receipt of your message from yesterday and I understand it. I will not surrender and … More A. C. Sandino
It is the weekend, and we are singing by listening to Radio Almenara 106.7 FM in northern Madrid, which streams on the Internet and sends television as well. Axé.
Axé.
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