Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
- William BlakeBehind the Locked Door
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Goodbye Bob Avery
[Click on BLUE links for more information} Bob Avery was many things to many people. I knew him best as a friend, an artist, and a bartender. We spent many late nights after hours in the Sea Gull Cellar Bar philosophizing. Once, accompanied by...
Poem by Think in the Morning: My Ph.D. in Bussing Tables
[Click on BLUE links for further information] Reaching across table. Grasping empty plate. Carrying armfuls of dishes piled high, food scraps, silverware. Vanishing. Returning. Cleaning table. Setting up. Next customer. Invisible. Ignored....
Guest Post: Once Upon A Time In The Pigmy Forest by Mitchell Zucker
[Click on BLUE links for further information] Mitchell Zucker © 2017 Second place winner California State Parks and Mendocino Study Club, Pygmy Forest Story Contest, Sept. 10, 2016. The rules called for the story to begin: “Once Upon a Time in the Pygmy...
Poems – 5
[Click on BLUE links for more information] On Think in the Morning Facebook page we post a poem every day with a selection of Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art or a photo. To receive these daily poems and napkin art on Facebook, "Like" our Facebook page....
The Coffee Shop
[Click on BLUE text to link to more information] “We’re poets and we drink coffee!” (attributed to Roberto Bolaño in The Savage Detectives) The word “coffee” appears 71 times in the The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. It's reasonable to think that...
Poems – 4
Most days on our Think in the Morning Facebook page and on our @ThinkInTheMorn Twitter page we post a poem. Usually I also post information on the poet on my David Herstle Jones Facebook page. If you want to read these daily poems, please visit our Facebook...
Rebuild Part II: The New Sea Gull Restaurant
NOTE: All black and white pictures in this post are courtesy of Mendocino photographer Nicholas Wilson. Many of the pictures were only available in contact prints that were filed away years ago. We did our best to make them visible. Thank you Nicholas Wilson for...
Guest Post: Raven Man by Mitchell Zucker
Think in the Morning occasionally offers Guest Posts that we think our readers will enjoy. Raven Man is a short story by Mitchell Zucker. RAVEN MAN by Mitchell Zucker Uncle Dean's not my real uncle but he might just as well be. He’s the old guy...
Poems – 3
Think in the Morning tries to post a poem on our Facebook page every morning. Often the poem has a connection to those early hours when we are most productive. The poems need not be the "best" work of the chosen poet, but they must move us in a special way....
Fire Redux
Photographs of the Sea Gull Fire by David John Russell, courtesy of his son David P. Russell. David P. Russell contributed greatly to this blog entry. Think in the Morning appreciates his time and concern and advice. The Sea Gull Restaurant and Cellar...
Poems – 2
Think in the Morning continues to believe in the importance of reading a poem every day. If you "Like" our Facebook page, you will see a poem posted there every day. We collected our first two weeks of selected poems in Poems - 1. This is the second in what...
Tough Love
The stories I will tell now are true or mostly true. I’ve changed the names and taken some liberty with the details. There are things you need to know. It isn’t easy to tell anyone that they are living in an illusion, that they have unrealistic expectations,...