#brian doyle

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

On a clear day the Oregon coast is the most beautiful place on earth—clear and crisp and clean, a rich green in the land and a bright blue in the sky, the air fat and salty and bracing, the ocean spreading like a grin. Brown pelicans rise and fall in their chorus lines in the wells of the waves, cormorants arrow, an eagle kingly queenly floats south high above the water line.

Brian Doyle, Mink River

[lostography]

I know all too well that the story of the world is entropy, things fly apart, we sicken, we fail, we grow weary, we divorce, we are hammered and hounded by loss and accidents and tragedies. But I also know, with all my hoary muddled heart, that we are carved of immense confusing holiness...

Brian Doyle, “Cool Things,” One Long River of Song (2019)

[dk-thrive]

We are part of a Mystery we do not understand, and we are grateful.

The truest words I ever heard about divine love were uttered once by a friend as a grace before a meal. He bowed his head, in the guttering candlelight, steam rising from the food before him, the fingers of the cedar outside brushing the window, and said, ‘We are part of a Mystery we do not understand, and we are grateful.’”

— Brian Doyle, from “Joel’s Doll’s Other Arm” in “One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder” (Little, Brown and Company, December 3, 2019) (via Alive on All Channels)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photo courtesy of Nadia Valko via Unsplash/Creative Commons

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"The truest words I ever heard about divine love were uttered once by a friend as a grace before a meal. He bowed his head, in the guttering candlelight, steam rising from the food before him, the fingers of the cedar outside brushing the window, and said, 'We are part of a Mystery we do not understand, and we are grateful.'"

—From the essay, "Joel's Doll's Other Arm" in the volume, "One Long River of Song," by Brian Doyle (2019)

[Traversing]

[morwenlovespoems]

What do poems do?

(by Brian Doyle)

I was, no kidding, a visiting writer in a kindergarten recently,

And the children asked me many wry and hilarious questions,

Among them is that your real nose? and can you write a book

About a ruffed grouse, please? But the one that pops back into

My mind this morning was what do poems do? Answers: swirl

Leaves along sidewalks suddenly when there is no wind. Open

Recalcitrant jars of honey. Be huckleberries in earliest January,

When berries are only a shivering idea on a bush. Be your dad

For a moment again, tall and amused and smelling like Sunday.

Be the awful wheeze of a kid with the flu. Remind you of what

You didn’t ever forget but only mislaid or misfiled. Be badgers,

Meteor showers, falcons, prayers, sneers, mayors, confessionals.

They are built to slide into you sideways. You have poetry slots

Where your gills used to be, when you lived inside your mother.

If you hold a poem right you can go back there. Find the handle.

Take a skitter of words and speak gently to them, and you’ll see.

[huntingtonnow]

Report: Paramount Sold to Live Nation

The Paramount has been sold to Live Nation, according to the Long-Islander newspaper. The downtown entertainment hub, owned by Dominick Catoggio, Jim Condron, Brian Doyle, and Stephen Ubertini. took over the former IMAC space on New York Avenue 13 years ago and has hosted thousands of shows since then, featuring top-ranked acts such as Billy Joel, comedian Kevin James, Ed Sheeran and many…

[celestekintsugi]

American Scholar: https://theamericanscholar.org/joyas-volardores

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have I was a Teenage Zombie 1987

[santaclaralocalnews]

Former Santa Clara City Attorney Brian Doyle has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit, claiming he was fired for being a whistleblower. The city council dismissed him in March 2021. As an at-will employee, Doyle could be dismissed at any time for any or no reason. Read more at svvoice.com.

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Rained gently last night, just enough to wash the town clean, and then today a clean crisp fat spring day, the air redolent, the kind of green minty succulent air you'd bottle if you could and snort greedily on bleak, wet January evenings when the streetlights hzzzt on at four in the afternoon and all existence seems hopeless and sad.

Brian Doyle, Mink River

[aspengrown]

Brian Doyle, Blue

[thewheatgerm]

i want a season where all of the jet laggers are guests at once because what a STACKED GROUP THIS IS (+ scotty rip scotty in this photo)

[citizenscreen]

(T-B) Harold Ramis, Joe Flaherty, Brian Doyle Murray, John Belushi, and Gilda Radner for the 1974 Off-Broadway production of "National Lampoon's Lemmings."

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