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Category Archives: Stories
Walsenburg Waltz
Invocation Beneath the snowy Spanish Peaks The Huajatolla (Wahatoya) in native speak, Our tale begins with Story Creek The steady flow of words we speak On 80 acres of grassy plains Bluffs and hills and scrub emerge We scratch the … Continue reading →
Fool Courting Dance
Fool Courting Dance (soundtrack) A ROADSIDE DISTRACTION First eve of their journey, SF to Boulder, T-Bone asks Mobility B (MoB for short) to stop in Carson City, so he can gamble. But he sleeps thru town, and wakes up in … Continue reading →
Posted in Stories, Stories and Songs, Tim Weil, Travels and Adventures
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Bowling for Dollars
A cold, chilly December afternoon at RFK stadium in Washington DC, watching your team go down to UCLA Bruins in the Eagle Bank Bowl 2009, almost but not quite dampens the ardour of an unlikely set of football supporters, determined to experience the atmosphere of The Big Game. Continue reading →
Posted in Heroes and Legends, Humour, Sport and Recreation, Stories, Stories and Songs, Tim Weil
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Tagged collegiate sport, Eagle Bank Bowl 2009, Holiday Bowl, President Jimmy Carter, RFK Stadium, Rocky Balboa, Ross Perot, San Diego, Styx, Temple University, UCLA Bruins
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Down Under
The adventures and exploits of one Wiley Timmons, south of the border down Mexico way, leads to lasting friendships being forged and families re-united. Continue reading →
Posted in Art and Literary, Music, Reminiscence, Stories, Stories and Songs, Tim Weil, Travels and Adventures
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Tagged Albert Schweitzer Institute, Blues, Bob Dylan, George Jackson, Guadalajara, Malibu, Mexico, Mexico City, Psychosinthesis, puppet theater, Ray Charles, Santana, South Central Los Angeles, surfing, Tlateloco Square massacre 1968
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Not Far Away
A trip to Israel and journeys to the ancient ruins of Jerusalem, including the Wailing Wall, unearths empathy for the country, its people and its heritage as the author’s ponders his own sense of self and all that has yet to be revealed. Continue reading →
Posted in Religious and Spiritual, Stories, Stories and Songs, Tim Weil, Travels and Adventures
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Tagged Beit She'an, Gaza, Georges Gurdjieff, Israel, James A. Michener, James Joyce, Jerusalem, Mecca, Stephen Daedalus, Subud, the Haj, Wailing Wall, Yad Vashem, Yasser Arafat
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Not the Tiger A New Age Parable
The game of Golf, seen through the lens of Zen Buddhism and the 12th century story of the 10 Bulls – a commentary on the stages of awareness, leading to self-realization and enlightenment. Continue reading →
Posted in Dreams and Schemes, Religious and Spiritual, Sport and Recreation, Stories, Stories and Songs, Tim Weil
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Tagged Buddhism, Dominic Girard, golf, Paul Reps, Story of the 10 Bulls, the ten bulls, Tiger Woods, William Blake, Zen
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A Treat Tonight (Une douceur ce soir?)
An attempt to DIY-construct an outdoor bread oven is meticulously planned and seems to be going well. However, when the moment of truth arrives, the result is a column of white smoke visible one mile down East Colfax. Denver police arrive on the scene, to find out ‘what the blazes’ is going on. Continue reading →
Posted in Dreams and Schemes, Food and Cuisine, Music, Reminiscence, Stories, Stories and Songs, Tim Weil
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Tagged Alex Estes, boulangerie, cuisine, Denver, East Colfax, French bread, George Thorogood, Robbie Burns, Robert Burns, Spencer Davis, The Rolling Stones
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Wake of the Flood
Synchronicity refers to events that are meaningfully, though not causally, related. Maurice Rapf, Ray Bradbury and Stan Boucher each led extraordinary lives. The story told here, examines some related coincidences of nature that occured when their final chapter was written. Continue reading →
Posted in Art and Literary, Heroes and Legends, Reminiscence, Stories, Stories and Songs, Tim Weil
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Daniel Webster, Hollywood Blacklist, Maurice Rapf, motion picture industry, New Hampshire, Ray Bradbury, Rocky Mountain National Park, science fiction, Stan Boucher, synchronicity, transit of Venus
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Latkes
A trip to a restaurant, following a Friday Shabbat service, recalls a recipe handed down on the back of an envelope, preserving memories that contain the ingredients of a happily married life of over 30 years. Continue reading →
Posted in Food and Cuisine, Reminiscence, Stories, Stories and Songs, Tim Weil
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Tagged cuisine, family recipes, Judaism, latkes
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Jailbreak (from Bus to Busted and Out Again)
Passages from Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan lyrics and meditations from the Great Kanzeon keep the narrator sane and focused on his goals as he drifts across Mexico in the 1970s, experiencing a brief period of incarceration for travelling without proper papers. “They Put Me in Jail, But I Have the Key.” Continue reading →
Posted in Art and Literary, Reminiscence, Spiritual and Mediation, Stories, Stories and Songs, Tim Weil, Travels and Adventures
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Tagged Avalokiteshwara Bodhisattva, Carbine rifle, Dharma Bums, Great Kanzeon, Guadalajara, Jack Kerouac, Mexico, Steve McQueen, The Drifters, The Great Escape, Yucatan
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