When I heard of the death of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I experienced a rush of thoughts from the past, most filled with memories of conversations my brother Tom would have — poetry, literature, music. There’s a line from a 2005 Los Angeles Times interview I love and have paraphrased many a time before and after he said: “I think the real poetry today is with music. Bob Dylan was a real poet. There’s the poetry of folk singers, bluegrass, and country-western. Rap poets are more alienated from society than the Beat poets ever were and they have a lot to say.” My brother would agree and so too would Frank Hudson. The world is indeed a beautiful place because of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. — kenne
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A Few of Kenne’s Photos (Click on any image to see in slideshow)
Queen Butterfly
Kate and Jaxon
Southern California September 2012
Cactus Wren
All Souls Procession
Mountain Spiny Lizard
SCVN Weds Walk 08-01-12
Ed On Marshell Gulch Trail
Carpenter bee on sneezeweed
Friday with Friends & Molino Basin to Prison Camp
Queen Butterfly
Domingo DeGrazia’s Spanish-guitar band
Chase & Grandma Joy
Virginia & Jim At The Hunter Trail Saddle
Audrey, Joy, Hannah and Kenne
Sycamore Reservoir
Turkey Vulture at Tanque Verde Wash
Queen Butterfly
La Milagrosa Loop Hikers
Doves, Lightening, Hiking
Flickr Photos
When we were young “hippies” he was our poet of choice.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:30 PM Becoming is Superior to Being wrote:
> kenneturner posted: “When I heard of the death of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I > experienced a rush of thoughts from the past, most filled with memories of > conversations my brother Tom would have — poetry, literature, music. > There’s a line from a 2005 Los Angeles Times interview I” >
Yea, I remember those hippie days, then I became a ‘yuppie.’
Thanks for the re-blog. As Ferlinghetti had it: “The world is a beautiful place/to be born into/if you don’t mind some people dying/all the time”
What a giant of a life