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Sunbeams

The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Mailer And Me

This is what comes to mind when I think of Norman Mailer: that boredom is a logjam in a river which needs to flow; that a good heavyweight faces death every time he steps into the ring and that Hemingway may have faced it every day; television can give you cancer, along with rancor and fear and too much courtesy. . . .

My Favorite Book(s)‚ And Why

Seth Speaks, Breakfast of Champions, The Miracle of Love

Sunbeams

One must have apocalypse in one eye and the millennium in the other, and as you look out through that double vision, the third eye develops and sees the resolution of tragedy and conflict and the rest of it.

William Irwin Thompson

An Interview With Jimmy Santiago Baca

On Writing, Prison, and The Human Spirit

But you can’t look to the institutions of learning for the moral way of living. You have to look at those people that mix pluses and minuses together to get some weird, weird formula. And that’s exactly how I try to live. I try to mix the moon with the sun, and the stars with the water. And I try to come up with a new universe.

Sunbeams

One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self: of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.

Nietzsche

Editor’s Note

MANAS

Magazine Review

Rather than telling us how to live, MANAS gives us the reasons for living.

Triad

The Jes Plain Folks Poems

The poems of the Jes Plain Folks School can be broadly categorized as “Remark Poems” and “What If Poems.” There is nothing necessary about them, nor do they give the sense of having needed to be written. They may be whimsical.