Books
The Spirit of Spain
The Spanish spirit, in the sense of spirited, is as known the world over as is its language, art and culture. Imagine the impossibility of thinking of a bullfighter, a flamenco dancer, a Picasso painting, or the word “ole!” and not thinking of Spain. The people´s passion for living is as much a part of its essence as is the sunlight.
Yet its history is replete with periods of darkness when societal joy seemed to be obliterated by forces driven by a desire to control. But its art survived, its paintings inspired, its music engaged and its people´s warmth remained. The post-war era dominated by a fascist military was such a time. Yet the true spirit of Spain was never reduced, waiting to burst forth. For those who lived both then and now, the spirit is the same, deepened and more universal.
THE SPIRIT OF SPAIN endeavors to convey the power and warmth of the Spanish spirit, never quelled in more than 2000 years.
https://rb.gy/e446w5
The Mending Wing
At the turn of the millennium the western world appeared to face such a transformation, seeking to become a truly egalitarian, international, diverse yet connected humanity. It turned out that was too much change for many. The dark forces of racism, sexism, egotism, and protectionism rose up in rebellion, reinvigorated by each other, giving new hope to old pathologies, from hatred to denial, from pedophilia to pure brutality, from assault to abuse to murder itself.
Our wings are broken.
THE MENDING WING is an attempt to portray this in verse, to capture it in a way words alone do not.
https://tinyurl.com/Mending-W
Maxy´s Dragon
Maxy, an easy-going peasant, is awakened by louder than usual shrieks. Pummkin, his sometime fiancée, is missing and Skag the Sinister, villain of villains, is sure to have taken her. The townsfolk urge Maxy to rescue her (the sooner he goes, the sooner they won’t have to) and the tug-of-war between his brain and his mouth begins. When his mouth wins, he is off on a Quest that will force him to face who he is. What is uncertain is what he must do next.
Like it or not, in a land where everything plays against type, at a time when every journey is a psychological exploration, questions are laid bare. Maxy´s allies, a sardonic thirty-foot dragon and an irritable princess with little patience for indecision, appear and reappear to inspire him as he faces a lion that is not a lion, a prince that is not a prince, and friends and foes that are neither.
For nothing is what it appears to be.
https://rb.gy/zel32
The Four Involutions
The Four Involutions (second edition) explores the nature of attitudes and the thinking that supports them. As attitudes set the individual’s orientation to life, dysfunctional attitudes and the mistaken but personally logical way of thinking that forms them leads to lives that do not work. The Four Involutions notes that humans always develop these attitudes. But when discouraged the form they take is involuted or reversed, creating a self-defeating way of being. The thoughts supporting it, the person’s underlying logic, is like a poem that predicts success or failure in life. https://tinyurl.com/yc2umcxk
Invader Stuff
The title, Invader Stuff, is a satirical play on the phrase and on ordinary life, as the authors fashion a collection of poems, short poetic prose and commentaries designed to inspire a rueful smile of recognition. When asked, “Whatcha doing?” an invader replies in laid-back post-Kerouac fashion, “Oh, just some invader stuff,” as if that were enough. The 60´s and 70´s changes in society, and the reaction to them, are reflected here in verse and sardonic tales whose focus is ironically familiar to all.
Tales from the Right Hemisphere
The universal fascination with the meaning of dreams and the metaphors found in hypnosis appear in Tales from the Right Hemisphere as fables initially created as psychotherapeutic guides, their archetypal images designed to inspire the “child within”. Drawn from actual experiences, Tales brings an innocent poetic imagery and a deceptive simplicity to deeper, perhaps universal, human experience.
Captain Rap and Captain Crank
