Remembering Big Al

Remembering Big Al

  [Click on BLUE links for sources or more information]   IMPORTANT NOTE:  To honor Al, the Community Center of Mendocino is hosting a “Celebration Of Big Al’s Life” Sunday, April 8, 2018 from 12:00 to 3:00pm. Please join us, bring your...
The Sea Gull As Art

The Sea Gull As Art

[Click on BLUE links for sources and information]   “qualia” : the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions, arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena     There is geometry at play in life, not just in art― we call it symmetry....
An Indulgent Nostalgic Journey

An Indulgent Nostalgic Journey

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   Nostalgia, to me, is not the emotion that follows a longing for something you lost, or for something you never had to begin with, or that never really existed at all. It’s not even, not really,...
Smoking

Smoking

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and information]   My mother and grandmother smoked their cigarettes in a little room off the kitchen we called the back porch.  In the company of a washing machine, a dryer, a chest freezer, and a broom closet they sat at...
Water

Water

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and information]   It seems odd that you can live on a peninsula surrounded by water yet run out of the stuff every year just at the busiest tourist time. But, it happened every year in Mendocino when I was running the Sea...