Malcolm and Broughton may allude to that old anti-majestic maxim, GOD SITS IN HEAVEN AND LAUGHS. Thanks for your YouTube tip, since like everything else of its ilk, it has morphed from being an archive and resource into an AI and algorithm feed for the internet's marketing quicksand and bog.
James Broughton has delighted me for many years. This renegade, deeply engaged with life, has offered me many ideas for being true to myself as I make my way through it all.
James Broughton became my very first artist-hero, shortly after arriving in San Francisco in 1986. A film teacher recommend his book, 'Making Light of It', which is packed with practical and playful musings and aphorisms on film, art, life and spirit. I've read it dozens of times over the years. I recommend his memoir, 'Coming Unbuttoned' and a gorgeous documentary about his life and legacy called, 'Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton', which you can watch for free on You Tube. Lastly, James honored me by including my photograph of him in the end of 'Packing Up For Paradise', the collection from which his poem, 'Having Come This Far' was selected.
"Until something transcendent turns up
I splash in my poetry puddle
and try to keep God amused."
Amen!
swap out "god" for "myself" /
don't we all write first to amuse
ourselves?
Malcolm and Broughton may allude to that old anti-majestic maxim, GOD SITS IN HEAVEN AND LAUGHS. Thanks for your YouTube tip, since like everything else of its ilk, it has morphed from being an archive and resource into an AI and algorithm feed for the internet's marketing quicksand and bog.
we are not human /
we are data.
True. But the maxim, if intended, welcomes us to a campfire on life's cold night.
My book is an open life.
James Broughton has delighted me for many years. This renegade, deeply engaged with life, has offered me many ideas for being true to myself as I make my way through it all.
I'd rather be blithe than correct
Amen!
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton | Full Documentary Movie /
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Thank you. I did not previously know about this fabulous poet. Very healing words.
Brightened my whole day. These lines will come back to me all day.
Fantastic poem about choices and the different roads we take in life. I love it, James. Bravo!
that’s one badass old dude
Wow! Shirt off, open arms, blissed out eyes, a return to Love
His last words were: "My creeping decrepitude has crept me
all the way to the crypt."
Stellar!
Great stuff, he will go on the reading list
Just the word "blithe" made my day. And now I know Broughton, a great gift.
Beautiful and brilliant!
As an alternate title: "The Lotus Eater"
James Broughton became my very first artist-hero, shortly after arriving in San Francisco in 1986. A film teacher recommend his book, 'Making Light of It', which is packed with practical and playful musings and aphorisms on film, art, life and spirit. I've read it dozens of times over the years. I recommend his memoir, 'Coming Unbuttoned' and a gorgeous documentary about his life and legacy called, 'Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton', which you can watch for free on You Tube. Lastly, James honored me by including my photograph of him in the end of 'Packing Up For Paradise', the collection from which his poem, 'Having Come This Far' was selected.