The Eastside View

I have written a new poem, as follows: An ardent point Supernatural as a point, more supernatural than evolution Natural as an organism, mor...

L AST WEEK IN P ORTLAND we attended three events in PICA's Time-Based Art festival . PICA is the Portland Institute for Contemporary Ar...

L ISTENING TO CAGE , by way of his Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras , made me think to check out Feldman, so I went to E-Music to download...

Portland— W E SAW SEVEN PLAYS in six days last week at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, only once having to squeeze in two perfor...

A S MANY OF YOU KNOW , I spent ten days in June and most of July walking from Evian-les-Bains to Nice with my grandson Henry and my friend K...

Portland— T WO DIFFICULT TRAGEDIES — difficult from the point of view of successful production, I mean, not posing intellectual difficultie...

Portland— W E ENDED OUR WEEK at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland with an aftenoon performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream , ...

Ashland, Oregon— S ATURDAY: TWO PLAYS yet to see, one of them a Midsummer Night's Dream to which I don't quite look forward, havin...

photo: Henry Shere P RELIMINARY STATISTICS , slightly revised: Elevation change: 51,300 meters, roughly, or about 167,000 feet, which is abo...

A TENTATIVE LISTING of the meals (chiefly dinners) eaten during our Long Walk, June 20-July 28, and the week or so following while on vaca...

W E WALKED INTO THE SEA yesterday, ending our long walk across the French Alps. Well, not really, of course; the boots have been too good t...

Well we are here in Nice, but not quite: we haven't really finished the walk. Increasingly we find it hard to find a bed; and after 20 m...

W ELL, WE DIDN'T GET FAR today. It's hot and a little humid and I think somehow being down here in a valley instead of up there in ...

F IRST, A CORRECTION to the previous blog: as Thérèse pointed out, a better URL for the photos is here . We are now in Lanslebourg, in the...

You can see a few photos taken a week or so ago at http://www.flickr.com/photos/14329090@N04/sets/72157606041033930/

Bonneval-sur-Arc We crested the highest pass we'll be on on this entire walk today, and it was remarkably easy. The Col d'Iseran is ...

A DAY OF RAIN, our first. Oh well. We left a nice cheap hotel in Les Contamines aty about 8 am, walking a delightful road along the bonnant ...

IMAGINE TWO LITTLE dots on the "e" in Samoens, whose final "s" is silent. (Like the "p" in "swimming,...

LONG TIME SINCE contact; sorry. And now once again I work on an unfamiliar keyboard at a slow connection. The weather has been cooperative; ...

APOLOGIES FIRST: for the double send of the lqst dispqtch; qnd for the odd spelling here! I am using a French keyboard; and the sun is in my...