Half Devil & Half Child is a new photoblog by Navo,
a globe-trotting, published photographer/artist/nomad’s thoughts,
musings, and rumblings about the things he’s passionate about
- photography, films, books, characters, and life’s work in progress.
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“If your a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days
–listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off.
You take home all you’ve taken in, all that you’ve overheard,
and you turn it into GOLD. (or atleast you try.)”
-Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird)
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(Half Devil & Half Child apologize for all the typos and the lack of flow of some of the entries, editing would take time for a new blog)
bird by bird made sense in 96 it kept me off the street in tenderlion SF, it was a bible for some time
I hitched and wandered, wrote and talked to many a fellow or gals or whatever would make sense of my mission—anyway, enough of me loving myself—came by mistake upon your site—its a mission—-indeed
and want to honor you for putting it up—this blog—in short inspiring!!!!!! well done dangerously naive–something I saw the otherday—an old teach of mine from venice beach days—wrote—I like–god speed—
GREAT ZEN MASTER
went looking for the great Zen master
a sick junkie told me, try the Safeway
I think he works down there
at the Safeway the manager was very busy
cashing paychecks etcetera
but he took the time to tell me
you must mean Jimmy Bananas we used to call him
he don’t work here no more since about two weeks
but you ask Swenson that guy over there stamping cans
Swenson knows where he lives
you ask Swenson
so I asked Swenson who said
yeah he lives in the Ocean Spray Hotel
is he in trouble or something?
the lady at the hotel
didn’t know anybody by that name
never knew any great Zen masters at all
if it came to that
coming out of the hotel pretty discouraged
ran into the junkie again and he said
you still looking for that cat man?
I just saw him – he’s down on the beach by those rocks
of course when I got down to the beach
there was nobody there
just a dog chasing seagulls
just a dog and me standing on wet sand and feeling foolish
and the surf booming over those rocks
–John Thomas
Thank you Sidmaker! I also loved Bird by Bird, and I agree it is a mission.
Just found your page. Loves it so far. Great quote by Anne Lamott!
Thank You Marie, I agree, I love that quote of Anne! Thanks for reading Marie Therese!