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Off topic for fun - One of these days have to try and check out the Kerouac collection at the New York Public Library - among the offbeat charms are his turf writing, an out-shoot or adjunct to his fantasy baseball league comprising sketchbooks, scrapbooks, neatly boxed and annotated of an imagined (should we say, fantasy?) sports. Principally baseball and horse racing. READ MORE ON EPITOMIGM. Related: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2009/05/18/jack-kerouac-fantasy-sportsman https://moontravellerherald.blogspot.com/2012/06/moneyball-walkoff-homer-of-mind.html

Art and the spiritual overlap, at least for me, at least sometimes. Catholic upbringing was such that I went to church every school day for 8 years, and I wont try to estimate how many Sundays over many more. At every mass, there is reading of Psalms. These come from the Hebrew.  In my youth, these were read in Latin, which created a type of drone-like song that mapped easily forward even as they were done in English. The song of the psalm sets a constant poem churning in your head. So, no Psalms follow, but bit from my book of Hebrew Verse, a book with poems in fragment form. As always, the blues is knockin. Like many of these, it's bleak, with some leaven.  Bring me a scroll, get me ink and a quill and I shall blacken it today with my tale of woe. When I read it, my eyes will flow like fountains, for in the grave I shall not shed any tears. I shall bewail this lovely form, which my friends, both men and women, will rush to the charnel house and shall bewail ...

The poet Robert Kelly tells a story of a woman who, despite nagging sisters and clucking hen country folks of the town found love – actually, found Eros – and actually her name was Psyche. An excerpt from near the end.  …Eros said “we have lived here too long even the rocks are the town’s rocks & the trees drink poison from the shadows of the the townfolk on their roots we must build a labyrinth to hide the monster of our perfected love’ so they went out of the cave & built the first city in the world & called it this & said it was the end of the family & Love said ‘here we can live, here the city can nourish men & free them from all the things but themselves together here we can through all complexity one day find ourselves again’ & Love hid themselves in his city. Excerpt p.161, The East Side Scene, American Poetry, 1960-1965, A Doubleday Anchor Book, 1972 The East Side Scene was a dear book of poetr...

Introducing My poetry book shelf. A new Section of Moon Traveller Herald for 2019. Let's get it down! Among the earliest poems in English is The Wanderer.The style then was musically heavy on alliteration which may have for those folks been a better mnemonic aid than rhyme. Grill Marcus spoke at one time about the Old Weird America. Here, the Old Weird Britain calls you by your name. Part of soliloquies bleak unto blues. Here's a bit: Who liveth alone longeth for mercy Maker's mercy Though he must traverse tracks of sea Sick at heart - Trouble with oars ice cold waters The ways of exile – Weird is set fast. Excerpt, p.70; The Wanderer, The Earliest English Poems, Penguin Classics, 1966

The 17th-Century Astronomer Who Made the First Atlas of the Moon https://t.co/xTbyJL6sip via @SmithsonianMag — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) January 3, 2019

A China National Space Administration team led by Chief Scientist Wu Weiren has announced the first landing on the far side of the moon. Dubbed Chang’e-4, the lander includes a green house experiment. It released a rover Jan 3 at 2:22 pm GMT onto a surface that may disclose clear clues of the radio universe and its origins.  The system avoids communication issues that have discouraged previous projects, as it is uses yet another satellite – one in a wider moon orbit – as a bridge link to Earth.  China had landed a probe (Chang’e-3) on the near side of the moon in 2013, but its success was limited. Moon conspiracists have had a long field day with US moon landings that put 12 men on the moon in the distant past – they should have yet longer field day with China now on the farside. First reports are there is plenty of light and Pink Floyd was overly dramatic in calling it the Dark Side of the Moon. Congratulations to China’s Chang’e-4 team for what appears to be a ...

MOON ALCHEMY - When the Apollo 8 astronauts were circling the moon on Christmas Eve 1968 I was probably having a little Christmas nuzzling with a girl resembling Monica Vitti. Attention to space mission detail was slipping, after the dedicated attention I’d applied in the young days of Mercury, umbilical days of Gemini, and heartbreak terror evening of Apollo 1. Viet Nam, riots and protests had taken the wind out of my stellar imaginings, as happened likewise for many others. Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Canned Heat and Velvet Underground (white light/feedback) were my soundtrack. I’d grown used to getting my space news on radio, and didn’t tune into TV for Apollo 8’s famed Christmas broadcast. Dad had just gotten home from a few weeks in the hospital with ulcers. (TV was Wasteland, and I almost missed the moon walk broadcast the next July). This all comes back in fits and starts, after viewing a Nova episode, “Apollo’s Daring Mission”. The moon project comes alive in this telling - th...