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To purchase Behind The Locked Door click HEREorBehind The Locked Door is available in Mendocino from Gallery Bookshop, Moore Books, and the Mendocino Public Library; in Fort Bragg from The Bookstore and the Fort Bragg Public Library, in Ukiah from The Mendocino Book...
A Look Back At The Trump Years Through The Eyes Of Napkin Artist Roy Hoggard
Roy Hoggard – July 13, 1937 – December 31, 2018To read about Roy, click on this link: The Genius of Roy Hoggard“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the...
Book Review – Came A Horseman by Paul McHugh
NOTE: This book is available at the Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino and at all fine book outlets Paul McHugh’s latest novel, Came A Horseman, is set on the north coast of California. This makes the novel of particular interest to us at Think in the Morning as that...
Cat Fight continued
We like to be entertained. We like surprise endings. We are amused by magic tricks and shows. Ordinary life is boring much of the time. These are some of the reasons we are susceptible to the conspiracy theories and untruths that have become even more prevalent...
Cat Fight
The news this morning is that Ted Cruz will lead a group of 11 Senators to oppose President Elect Joe Biden’s certification. Senator Cruz, known as Lucifer in the Flesh or more affectionately as the Lovechild of Joe McCarthy and Dracula, seems to be laying the...
California
“My favourite line in all of literature is Rudyard Kipling’s monkey: ‘My people are the wisest people in the jungle, my people have always said so.'” Joni Mitchell For the past few days I’ve been rereading Joan Didion. The White Album, Slouching Towards Bethlehem,...
Chester Anderson – The Butterfly Kid – Mendocino – The Sea Gull – The “Sixties”
Chester was erudite and twisted; this is a lovely combination. Peter Lit, The Caspar Inn We are each a reflection of our culture. In the melting pot of America, a culture may be no more than a family tradition. It could be...
The Phoenix Myth
History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes. Mark Twain Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief...
Poem by Think in the Morning – Hummingbird
Hummingbird? Is that you?I thought I heardThe beating of your wingsOut on the bough of hollyWhere the Robin sings.You have been to the oceanAnd back. As I can seeFrom the way you bob your headTo and froYou have gathered the flotsam and jetsam of lifeAnd are flitting...
Poem by Think in the Morning – Sloth
It is a giant slothFrom the Montana wetlandsWhose Siberian ice mask melted.Nothing but another dinosaurResurrected by the enthusiasmOf funny little scientistsCompelled to work. Displayed in the museumMunching along between these giant lobsters and sharksHe looks...
Poem By Think in the Morning – Bird
Bird WaitingCan be more dangerousThan faking the answerTo a geometry question. Consider of thoseWho drowned at seaHow many others successfullySkirted the Straits of Magellan. Instant heroes.We will always remember them. But yesterday,While I watched from my windowIn...
Poem By Think in the Morning: A Bee
A Bee Bent limbsLaden with fruitMind growingLike a tuberShe sinks and swaysDrunk on the honeyFouled by the last flower’s nectar. Buzzing, sun-bakedSquint eyed and smilingThis eunuch beastMessengers loveBetween petals and matriarch queens. Through reticulate...