Ken Ronkowitz

Life is not an equation
that can be balanced.
- KR

When Mercator first published his world map in 1569, it revolutionized navigation.

Burning ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ On November 10, 1973, school officials in Drake, North Dakota, burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

A figurative firestorm hit Drake via the media in 1973. This little town of 650 people is still infamous for having burned copies of what is considered to be a classic & bannings of the novel continue.
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So the human genome
is only four letters A,T, C, G.
Not so complicated after all.
- KR
#haiku

There’s a marvelous essay that Sinclair Lewis wrote on how to write. He said most writers don’t understand that the process begins by actually sitting down. TOM WOLFE

Breakfast With Ancestors

Coffee and a bagel, kaffee and beugal.Sharing a poppy-seeded ring with Slavic ancestors -a sunlit cafe in St. Nicolas Square.Mèlange with morning shadows of Austrian vorfahren.Bakery smells from a very distant mountain.

"We Are All Dying" is a depressing title for a post. Sorry about that. I'm not the first tp think that we might be dying every day instead of living.

I walked into Buddhism, almost as an accident.

I was surprised to find that today there are still "Flat Earthers," considering that the globe concept of Earth has been known since antiquity.

Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life
- Donald Justice, Invitation to a Ghost

This morning was the last total lunar eclipse visible anywhere on Earth until New Year's Eve 2028. #lunareclipse

The March Full Moon carries a variety of names, but "Chaste Moon" is one of the most poetic—and misunderstood—titles in the lunar calendar.

"We reach towards what is yet unknown..."
#poem

The Mystery of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys

I saw posted online that yesterday was the birthday of Edward L. Stratemeyer. He is an author whose name doesn't come up too often in literary discussions, but he had a big impact on my early reading habits. This  New Jersey author (born in Elizabeth in…

A writing workshop on Writing About Art on March 22 at The ACL Gallery in Livingston, NJ, led by Ken Ronkowitz and Susan Rothbard.

Is blogging like "writing a letter to strangers?"

#blogging #writing

Thank you for providing the link

Sometimes dreaming goes awry. Sleepwalking, nightmares, sleep paralysis. And lucid dreaming can be good or bad.

Attraction hobbies. All the kids are doing it. (Well, at least 16% of them.)
#dating #relationships

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning of feeling of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our lives trying to be less lonesome ~John Steinbeck

I have been talking with people about movies for five decades.
#movies #film @montclairfilm

What did Hippocrates say about healing? Do nothing
#poem #ronka

Ah, those were the days…

@fountainsofwayne.bsky.social Please, more shows. More website. More t-shirts. More, more, more

A heavy snowfall
disappears into the sea
What silence!

In the last minute of the world a daylily is opening beside tomorrow’s bud.A robin tends her two hungry nestlings.The sun emerges from behind a cloud.Peppermint, thyme, and sage lose their perfume.People outside, hugging, h…

What would you do "In the last minute of the world..."
#poem #ronka

Okay, now my wife is going to make me watch some archived figure skating. That means I will make her watch some downhill. But no curling for either of us.

I didn’t watch any of the Olympics. I assume that is not normal.