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“I read today 1/8/8 that a marine in Iraq threw a puppy off a cliff
I will not draw puppies being thrown off cliffs
I will not even watch it
I’m still trying to get over Auschwitz
and you’re throwing puppies off cliffs”
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Monthly Archive for August, 2008
creatures of context
Posted in dogs, poetry, psychology on Aug 21st, 2008
What have I learned from the dogs?
That I bark when I see the postman.
That my hunger is insatiable.
That at root, I am a creature filled with joy.
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faciliated and spontaneous movement
Posted in videos on Aug 17th, 2008
Facilitated and spontaneous movement (fsm) is a therapeutic technique for sore joints and muscles. I have posted a video introduction, perhaps worth a look, though we do hope to improve on this presentation soon. So take a look at facilitated and spontaneous movement: take one.
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Ted Allan, my father: part two
Posted in Drama, Ted Allan, psychology on Aug 12th, 2008
In Ted Allan, my father: part two, I talk about his history with his sister Sadie, which he wrote as a play, I’ve Seen You Cut Lemons, directed by Sean Connery, which he and Jiohn Cassavetes later adapted as the play and film, Love Streams. I also talk about Leonard Cohen and the Bourgeois [...]
part one of a videoof me, Norman Allan, talking avbout my father, Ted Allan, and Norman Bethune, and The Spanish Civil War, and Hemmingway, and Gerda Taro.
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Come Clouds: a poem (the video)
Posted in poetry on Aug 5th, 2008
Come Clouds: a poem (for the video of the author reciting this piece, click here
Come Clounds
come clouds
now that we are ready
eclipse our too planned joy
tomorrow we will plan again
today’s already gone
along with childhood
back into the vaults
of would be
might
and when
grey clouds
blue clouds
peach sky
willow tree and rain
tomorrow we will plan again.
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