Tea with Chinese Masters – Postcard #33
Dave checks in with the words of Chinese literature aficionado Lu Ji with his notes on the writer’s craft after […]
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Baudelaire Considers Ships, Youth and Beauty – Postcard #32
Continuing from the corner garden in the unnamed park, Dave reads from French symbolist (and hopeless romantic) Charles Baudelaire who
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Conrad’s Youthful Adventures from an Unnamed Park – Postcard #31
Dave reads from Joseph Conrad’s “Youth: A Narrative” from the community garden in the park with no name near Cambie-land,
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Kerouac’s San Francisco in Dave’s Vancouver – Postcard #30
On a North Van hillside, Dave reads a few choruses from Jack Kerouac’s “San Francisco Blues” and talks about “Ti
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Rilke’s Letters at a Breezy Island Market – Postcard #29
At Granville Island Market on a breezy spring day, Dave talks about Czech/German/French writer Rainer Maria Rilke and reads from
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Whitman on the Windy Columbia – Postcard #28
A personal stirring moment, recorded for Grandpa, Robert Louis Stevenson (RIP) on the windy banks of the Columbia River featuring
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Red-headed Girl in San Francisco from Shelter Cove – Postcard #27
Rather raw, first sampling from the Shelter Crescent session featuring Brad Rees playing electric guitar while I talk and yodel
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Henry Going to Galicia from the Woodshed – Postcard #26
Contemplating the edge of the (then known to Western folks) Earth with Henry the Navigator in this sixth instalment of
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Curiosity in Rainstorms from the Woodshed – Postcard #25
The fifth Woodshed session choogles along with a free verse extravaganza with Bill Lenker playing on the guitar and singing
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Belize and Bookshelf Observations at the Woodshed – Postcard #24
Go on a trip for this next Woodshed session, again Bill Lenker on guitar and singing, and Dave busting some
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Temporary Lighthouses from the Woodshed – Postcard #23
Rolling along with the Woodshed Sessions, here’s number 3 … again Bill Lenker’s guitar and songwriting/singing skills along with my
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Considering Vancouver Cobblestones from the Woodshed – Postcard #22
The second Woodshed Session again features Bill Lenker on guitar and DaveO with free verse and lyrical snippets. This time,
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Cascadia Starlight in a Woodshed Session – Postcard #21
A postcard from (along with the next few) the Steamboat Island woodshed with Bill Lenker’s guitar and vocals (see Postcard
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Short Fiction, Coincidentally about Drinking – Postcard #20
Out on a nighttime walk, Dave sits in the frosty grass under a tree, by a pond, with a Guinness
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Snowy Nighttime Porch with Raccoons – Postcard #19
From a snowy porch with raccoons chirping nearby, Dave reads from Richard Brautigan, Phillip Whalen, ee cummings, Walt Whitman plus
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A Wabi-Sabi, Foggy Morning – Postcard #18
On a foggy morning with Osmanthus tea, Dave reads tales by professor Larry Harper – “The Man Who Loved Provo,”
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