archives

• Stonehouse poems
• Red Pine’s Stonehouse poems
• Jim Harrison
• New Empty Bowl books by Red Pine
• Emerson on the books we read
• A New Edition of David Loy’s Non-Duality, A Classic
• Richard Poirier and Stanley Cavell: two inspired guides into deepest Emerson
• D.T. Suzuki jottings
• A red heliconia flower
• My next door neighbor
• Morning light in Chiang Mai
• A second coming?
• Long ago & far away
• Old friends and Worm
• Bloom’s meditation on silence
• Books on the road
• Anniversary of Jim Harrison death
• Kerouac’s birthplace home in Lowell, Massachusetts
• Eventide
• Kitchen Art
• Table Art
• Street Art
• Frank X. Tolbert2
• Election Day, Vote!
• Ibsen’s ‘life-lie’
• Boyd Elder of Valentine, Texas, RIP
• Joan Didion’s greatest in-depth story?
• It’s not necessary to finish the work, but you must keep working…and playing
• Sunday is National Dog Day
• Jim Harrison, novelist, poet
• Russell Lee
• Stanley Cavell, RIP
• Gary Snyder on life…
• At Night
• The Internet’s tangled web
• The Rain Tree at the Gymkhana Club
• The House of Opium in the Golden Triangle
• Earth Day
• Gary Cartwright quote
• The Qatar airport in Doha
• Earth’s temple services
• Villa Terlingua in the Big Bend
• The Burro Lady of Big Bend
• Distilled Wisdom
• February 16, Friday, marks the Year of the Dog
• Colors in Luang Prabang, Laos
• The Country Girl in Big Bend
• What sound is this…
• The Moustache Brothers of Mandalay
• More Backwoods Churches
• Chaos In The Gum Machine
• A Kind of Writer…
• More Backwoods Churches
• Backwoods Churches Documentary Project
• Rangoon, Shwedagon Stupa
• Sam Shepard, RIP
• The Coyote’s Call…
• Kitty voiding out…
• On this day 200 years ago, Henry David Thoreau was born.
• Achan Sumano of the Double-Eye Cave
• Dylan’s Nobel Prize Speech
• Denis Johnson, dead at 67
• Galloping Dreams
• Mornings In Mexico
• Superstition Mountain
• Whitman, Emerson & Tibetan monks
• Bedroom Things
• Saying Goodbye
• Kitty Hiding
• Bedside Books
• Year of the Rooster
• Plurality By Louis MacNeice
• Ralph Ellison’s Faux Haiku
• Alan Watts At 101
• Epictetus on the senses
• Ring Them Bells, brothers and sisters
• Clive James on quality TV shows
• Emerson on books
• Will Durant’s history books
• New member of the household
• Melville’s rightness
• My aunt’s painting
• Jim Harrison writes about Red Pine
• It
• Jim Harrison, RIP
• Palm Sunday, a moveable feast
• James Newton, Soul Man
• Daylight
• Finger Snapping Time
• Whitman’s personal record
• This is what you shall do
• Bedside books briefly
• Merry Christmas
• Happy Thanksgiving
• Turning the Wheel
• Laotian moonshine, look closely
• From Finding Them Gone by Red Pine
• From Melville’s Moby Dick
• The White Man and Laddawan
• Backwoods Church In East Texas
• Orchids, Ingenuity & Recycling
• Abandoned Backwoods Church in East Texas
• Forever Fashion
• First You Must Last
• Oh, Yeah…Wittgenstein Strikes!
• The Everly Brothers, Chet Atkins, Mark Knopfler, Mark McDonald
• Night Out In Mae Salong
• Wittgenstein Trying to Touch It
• Bedside Books: The Lawless Roads
• Language Disguises Thought: Koan For The Day
• Revealing Look at Stand-up Comedy in China
• Inspired Graphic Art For The True Reader
• Thomas Merton On An Image
• Tea With Harold Bloom, & His 45th Book
• Ralph Waldo Emerson On Sentences, Time, Words
• Cherry Blossoms
• Haiku By Issa
• Schopenhauer On Religion and Morality
• My Journal’s 5-Year Anniversary
• Empson: The Heart of Standing
• Basho & The Old Pond
• Clive James: New Poetry Book & Life Update
• Pete Seeger, Johnny Cash, June Carter
• Dylan’s Speech On Songwriting
• Bedside Books
• A Woman of Bangkok: Epigraph
• Robert Stone On Stephen Crane’s Red Universe
• Gary Snyder Talks About Kerouac
• The Dewdrop World: Issa’s Classic Poem
• Haiku By Issa, (1763–1827)
• James Fenton’s Paean to Mexico
• Chiang Mai Sketch II
• Ajahn Chah On Meditation
• Lary Wallace’s Take On Stoicism
• David Carr: RIP
• A Voice Like Sand and Glue, But Listen To It
• Dylan Sings American Classics
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give All To Love
• Atticus Lish’s Novel
• A Manifesto For The Future
• Robert Stone Dies; Our Moral Existentialist
• The Bitter Southerner: Great Website
• More Bedside Books
• Wittgenstein’s riddle of life
• More Dreams
• Dreams
• Hello To The Beginning of Time
• Clive James on ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love’
• Don’t Cry For Me, Billy
• Greil Marcus’ History of Rock and Roll
• East Texas Backwoods Churches
• New Norton Anthology of World Religions
• Anthony Quinn Does A Brando in ‘The Man From Del Rio’
• Time and Space
• Midnight at the 2300 Club
• Clive James Talks About His Illness & Plans For More Books
• James Evans Sees His Masterpiece
• Clive James’ Recent Poems
• Leonard Cohen’s Songs Zero In
• Lonn Taylor’s Colbert Report Appearance
• Men With Style
• Leonard Cohen’s Great New Songs
• The Star-Spangled Banner Marks 200th Anniversay
• For Ikkyu
• Leonard Cohen’s Poem: It Was Almost Like The Blues
• Ernest Hemingway: Revealing, New Edition of The Sun Also Rises
• Tomdispatch: The Website We All Need
• Leonard Cohen: Still Writing and Rolling
• The Ghost of Poetry
• Anthony Bourdain: Good Interview On The World and Reality
• The Art of Governing
• Suetonius, Tacitus, Livy: Life Lessons
• Red Pine: A Timely Interview On Release Of Yellow River Odyssey
• Confucius: Rectify The Language
• Zen Teacher Ruben Habito: Good Interview
• Wislawa Szymborska: Where Were You When I Needed You?
• Bedside Books – Gore Vidal and Chalmers Johnson: Men of Conscience
• Notes for a Jim Harrison Interview
• The Third Culture: Writers Respond to Steven Pinker’s Ideas
• Kyoto: Walking One Step at a Time
• Joseph Rakowski’s Jim Harrison Interview; Best Lately
• About That Bowl
• Morning Practice
• Minding My Time
• Edward Slingerland on Wu-Wei
• For Updike Fans: Revealing Review
• Robert Silvers: The NYRB’s Guiding Light
• Steven Pinker Looks At Writing in 21st Century
• Clive James’ Poetry in Full Bloom
• Rack ‘Em Up in Vientiane
• Read Stonehouse In Troubled Times
• “Catch 22” in China
• David Auerbach’s Blog, Waggish
• Matthiessen On Writing, Zen
• Let There Be A Big Bend For All
• The Past is Always Right Here, James Newton
• Partying With the Shan Army
• ‘Decoded’ By Mai Jia
• Frank X. Tolbert 2: His Art
• Updike Redux
• Wash Away Sins: Songkran
• The Mekong: Two For One
• Joshu’s Dog in East Texas
• Ry Cooder’s No-Border Music
• Are You Ready For Tex-Mex Music?: Doug Sahm
• Peter Matthiessen’s New Novel
• Red Pine Has Two New Books Coming Out
• William Empson: Let it Go
• Collin Cotterill’s Novels Set in Laos
• A River Runs Through It: The ending
• Emerson’s scandalous ideas
• Lawrence Durrell, from the Alexandria Quartet
• Jack Kerouac, Happy Birthay!
• William Empson poem
• Another Yellow River Odyssey Photograph by Red Pine
• More Lonn Taylor
• Philip Roth Praises US Crop of Novelists
• Sight Seeing
• Bluesman Robert Johnson: New Photograph Discovered
• Blue in Kathmandu
• William Gass: On Being Blue
• Richest 1 Percent Control Half of World’s Wealth
• Why Bodhidharma Came to China
• Time and Space
• Yellow River Odyssey Photograph by Red Pine
• Tracking is the future of technology
• Edmund Wilson on America’s Role
• Sight Seeing
• The Rain Tree at the Gymkhana Club
• A Poem for Red Pine
• Big Bend Burro Lady, Judy Magers
• Elephant Kingdom
• Time & Space
• Time & Space
• Red Pine’s Canny Commentaries on Buddhist Sutras
• Sight Seeing
• Red Pine’s Yellow River Odyssey
• Where’s Roxy Gordon?
• Time & Space
• Time & Space
• 2014! Year of the Horse
• M. H. Abrams celebrates 100th birthday
• Travel book still in rewriting
• Nearly back in the game…
• New Woody Guthrie novel
• James Wood profile
• Mae Salong, a Thai tea village
• Bedside books
• New Harrison essay
• Bedside books
• More dream poetry
• For Charles Dukes
• Lester Bangs was one great writer
• Finding Now
• Henri Cartier-Bresson’s birthday
• Bedside Books
• Jim Harrison poem: River IV
• gary snyder interview: know nature
• For Dead Tom Copeland
• Martin Amis: ‘What a country!’
• Jack’s Bongo Car
• Bedside Books
• Red Pine in New York Review of Books
• Larry McMurtry’s Booked Up bookstore
• Clive James on William Empson
• What word is this?
• Bedside Books
• Bill
• Minding My Time
• Name it
• ‘It’s Ok, don’t cry’
• Katy Makes An Entrance
• Lonn Taylor: a Texas star
• A look that opens up thought
• Songs of Unreason
• An Ernest Valentine wish
• A little Emerson
• Some Martin Amis things
• Bedside Books
• Sunday in East Texas
• Difficult poetry
• Wallace Stevens
• The Hunter Thompson Bangkok first edition
• Sounds like Wittgenstein, but isn’t
• Bedside Books
• Oval Dreams on the Dirt Track
• Denis Johnson’s new novella
• Reading Stonehouse
• Bedside Books
• Clive James on Wittgenstein
• Hunter Thompson’s two weeks in Vientiane
• William Empson, Philip Larkin
• Jan Reid’s Comanche Sundown
• CPA: photographs from Asia
• Bedside books
• Theroux-Naipaul shake hands
• The Mekong: A long, soft river
• Harold Bloom: the uncommon reader
• Lincoln portrait by Matthew Brady
• Kerouac wrote Dharma Bums in this house
• Thomas Merton’s photograph of God
• getting to know you, getting to know all about you
• Yippe Yee Yai Hyo
• bedside books
• clive james’ flowering
• to the future?
• Ian McEwan on Updike
• Thoreau’s koan
• lunch with Harold Bloom
• Where does good come from?
• James Franco on directing Blood Meridian
• from the Edge
• the Edge
• States of mind: Joseph Conrad
• john jeremiah sullivan
• Graham Greene
• Name dropping
• Naipaul’s strange masque
• Naipaul: the calypso rambler
• Zen sayings
• Philip Larkin
• Bedside books
• Philip Larkin’s nothing
• d.h. lawrence
• Bop till you drop
• thinking of cold mountain
• Zen sayings
• The Etiquette of Freedom
• a poem by Roxy Gordon
• the military & mindfulness
• time, space
• Roxy “Coyote Boy” Gordon, writer-poet-songwriter
• 100 Best Novels: Really ?
• Alex Kerr interview
• Interesting journal on politics, culture, literature
• Happy New Year
• Quotes from Gary Snyder on nature
• time, space
• time, space
• Time, space
• Reading Cavell
• New Stanley Cavell autobiography
• Kyoto Journal’s biodiversity articles
• The Kyoto Journal biodiversity issue
• McLuhan on moral indignation
• Christopher Hitchens: two recent videos
• New Bloom poetry anthology: Last Poems
• Walt Whitman on modern American poetry
• time, space, Khema Kat
• William Empson on Chinese poetry
• time, space
• Bloom: the American religion
• time, space
• Bedside Books III: Amis, Amis, Hitchens
• Frank Kermode dies
• Red Pine: language, poetry, translation
• sight seeing
• Bedside books II
• New Cormac McCarthy movies
• Chiang Mai’s music scene
• the Kyoto Journal: Silk Road
• ‘Hear me, I need food.’
• happy birthday, Hunter Thompson
• Enjoy the opportunity to say good night
• time, space
• A Zen man in Texas
• asian moments
• time, space
• Zen Baggage by bill porter (red pine)
• time, space
• time, space
• The pen is mightier than the general
• Dylan, Bloom, misreading
• time, space
• sight seeing
• Thai music: Joe Cummings
• searching for Orwell
• time, space
• Global Portraits 2
• favorite novels list
• chiang mai sketch
• sight seeing
• Khao San Road
• time, space
• space, time
• Lines of thought
• time, space
• why Stanley Cavell?
• time, space
• bedside books
• marfa public radio
• Asian moments
• time, space
• states of mind
• meditation retreats in Chiang Mai
• Zen koans
• A war story
• time, space
• Vietnamese writers
• sight seeing
• time, space
• the Golden Triangle
• time, space
• hunter thompson in Laos
• time, space
• the photography of thomas merton: seeing through the window
• time, space
• gary snyder: Danger on Peaks
• answering the koan
• the writers club
• bagan, myanmar
• east texas backwoods churches
• poem for red pine
• sight seeing
• McMurtry on movies, novels
• more mcmurtry
• joe cummings
• sumano’s poem
• mcmurtry’s west
• the junkman
• songkran
• red pine
• d. t. suzuki on poetry
• hunter thompson in laos
• jungle heat
• jim harrison interview
• beginning