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		<title>&#8220;trouser beak&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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my grandson, Leo (3), recently coined the term
&#8220;trouser beak&#8221;&#8230;


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		<title>Huxley&#8217;s &#8220;Time&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Del lent me Aldous Huxley&#8217;s : &#8220;Time Must Have an End&#8221;&#8230; an interesting book&#8230;
in it Bruno says: &#8220;Remorse is pride&#8217;s ersatz for repentance, the ego&#8217;s excuse for  not accepting God&#8217;s forgiveness. The condition of being forgiven is  self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful ,  because the reproached self isn&#8217;t abandoned, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;God is&#8230;&#8221; fading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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&#8220;God is&#8230;&#8221; fading
but, however,  see &#8220;I don&#8217;t see&#8230;&#8221;

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		<title>Troy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Achilles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concerto for Guitar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ezra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Priam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodrigo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodrigo Concerto for Guitar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ezra plays the Aranjuez
he sees Achilles before the walls of Troy
so now he rehearse
the Aranjuez
Rodrigo&#8217;s Concerto for Guitar
with the collective
of musicians
dancers
artists




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		<title>new art work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
lots of new work on my autumn 2011 page


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		<title>The Shiva Sutras</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mantra]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am posting  a version of the
Shiva Sutras that I typed onto ink blots
back in 1968
(The sutras are useful
and the ink blots are beautiful)



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		<title>new paintings!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[you have to see the new paintings!

so click here

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		<title>ghosts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ghosts

I.
I want to build a monument to me
I want to build it so all the world can see
like the Saracens’ towers on the Amalfi coast
stones or words cobbled to endure
a monument to the substantiality
of these flickering leaves
II.
here I am left behind by all the ghosts
and you
in the corner stands the elephant you left me
black
porcelain
cause I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>with words&#8230; to grab epiphany</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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With words… to grab epiphany
With words before and aft
she stood before the academy.
I did not know her answers.
I still don’t
He’d waxed the surface
and therefore couldn’t stick the ink
I’d wonderer if it needs words
in the corner
I stand before the academy, transparent,
shading into the wood.
The community looked through me,
sightless I marshaled my thoughts,
afraid of thoughtlessness
Why would they
judge [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[pictures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve added more drawings of  Ezra…

you can view videos of Ezra at Ezra Collective

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