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Into the Fen
I often wonder how the very next blog will form or coalesce in mind, how I will stumble-slosh through the reeds into the marsh and maybe end up on some slippery embankment not even thought of before entering the bog. In a few minutes I will go to the local community gym to meet with a physical fitness trainer which is my attempt at remaining mortal for the time left to me. With walking an hour a day and incorporating strength training perhaps my cardiovascular disease will ease, but that is a self-taught aspiration which has no basis in fact. What will…
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A Lie Well Told
I have mailed out about 45 to 50 review copies of This Mobius Strip of Ifs. My son, friends and a few acquaintances have gotten copies as a kind of sharing, a giving of a kind. The book has crossed the pond, sailed to Bangalore and Malaysia and has reached Cathay, that mystical old name for China. After all, this book, all 164 pages, contains my personal failures and losses, “successes,” wild behaviors, blindness, folly, responses to death and dying, depression and demoralization for the past 50 some odd years. It is a time capsule of a kind, except you don’t have to…
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Wounded
Since the book has been published I no longer own it, except for the self within myself. Bloggers are now assessing , labeling , acquiring it within their idiosyncratic perceptions; and what they have written makes sense here and there, but it is all rather ineffable. It is as if I, the artist, no longer can claim his provenance. What I have written is only an approximation of what I felt because my very language and skills are often in insurrection against what I intend. As I read and reread the book, I see where I had choices to make in terms of making…
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Review of “This Mobius Strip of Ifs” by Diana Stevan
This review of “This Möbius Strip of Ifs” by Diana Stevan on her blog as well as on GoodReads. Much thanks to Diana for her kind words about the book. This Mobius Strip of Ifs – A Remarkable Book When I opened the book This Mobius Strip of Ifsby Mathias B. Freese, I had no idea what to expect. The cover gave me no clues, as for starters I didn’t know what a Mobius strip meant. I learned it is “essentially a ribbon with a twist”. Freese views life as “random happenstance; a long line of ifs that we strive to make…