DC Literary Outsider

Thoughts from an obscure literary life. Your average joe as literary critic, writer, poet, social commentator, cultural observer, barman, wine enthusiast, Irish-Polish American.

Monday, September 4, 2023

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9/4 Jesus couldn't keep them all straight, the disciples. The usual impossible mix of contrary and competing qualities and habits, even...

Thursday, August 31, 2023

8/30/2023

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8/30 I listen to myself drink the lemon water as I stand over the sink. Another day of doctor appointments for mom. Calm I say to mysel...

Monday, August 14, 2023

The Year was 1965.

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8/14 The year of this musical hit, Prabhupada's Pattcha Tattva Mantra, was, and is,1965, at least in the sense of the year of his arriv...

Saturday, May 20, 2023

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A sketch for Julie (the loss of her Werner) A therapist will tell us to avoid letting your own life be narrowed; broaden out, volunteer, f...

Monday, March 27, 2023

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3/27 Sunday, cold, but the sun was out. I get a decent sadhana in, silent mantra, then my round of Maha Mantra, then yoga outside on the m...

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Anyone still read this?

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TESTING 3/21 The monk, HH Romapada Swami, is speaking over at 2 in the afternoon over at Rice Creek Field Station. I get there and Dolly a...

Friday, May 13, 2022

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3/25/2022 So finally around 3:30 in the afternoon, without wanting to, with a twinge of a headache from mixing sweet "sangria" ci...

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DC Literary Outsider: Washington, DC, United States; Gandhi tells us to be the change we want to see in the world. I wanted to see a blog on writing. Not necessarily the craft stuff, the things you could learn in a classroom, but the basic matters (and mysteries) of creativity, depth and subject matter. I am a veteran barman of Washington, DC. My novel, A Hero For Our Time, a modern retelling of Hamlet, is available on Amazon.com. (My thanks to Mr. Lermontov, God rest his soul, for allowing me to nod to his singular classic.) What makes writing literature? Writing will always be an art form to honor.

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