Patti Smith

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Patti Smith episodes

  • State of the mind

    No words. Just a smile and a wave.

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    18 min
  • A little Valentine message

    Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. Protect and project the best of your heart. Below is the second photograph I took that morning. Old Polaroid film diffused Michigan light and the slippers of Rudolf Nureyev. ❤️

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    7 min
  • A night message

    Hello Everyone, Hope all is well. This is just a little night message and happy birthday James Joyce….

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    10 min
  • 500 Hats part 2

    Here is the end of an almost dark tale. Hence the dark lighting. Below is a cabinet picture of the beautiful, melancholic Gérard de Nerval. Today on his passing day I am posting my favorite poem of his that I have loved since a teenager.

    THE DARK BLOT
    Le Point noir
    He who has gazed against the sun sees everywhere
    he looks thereafter, palpitating on the air
    before his eyes, a smudge that will not go away.
    So in my days of still-youth, my audacity,
    I dared look on the splendor momentarily.
    The dark blot on my greedy eyes has come to stay.
    Since when, worn like a badge of mourning in the sight
    of all around me where my eye may chance to light,
    I see the dark smudge settle upon everyone.
    Forever thus between my happiness and me?
    Alas for us, the eagle only, only he
    can look, and not be hurt, on splendor and the sun.
    Translated by RICHMOND LATTIMORE

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    12 min
  • Five hundred Hats

    Well I couldn’t find Mulberry Street. I will keep looking.

    My retelling of a Dr. Seuss masterpiece was inexplicably cut off. I will return in the morrow with the ending. For us there is still tomorrow. For Alex Pretti all his tomorrows were terrifyingly taken away.

    Tonight there is snow and contemplation, love and prayers for the people of Minnesota. We mourn the state of things, we offer condolences, we stand together.

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    16 min
  • Sleepily remembering Susan

    Be good have good dreams….

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    14 min
  • Natural light

    Hello everyone. Below are the books I spoke of… Lazar by Nelio Biedermann is due out in March. Worth the wait….

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    16 min
  • BOA 2

    Hello to my Subscribers,

    I am set to travel and will be back Saturday. For now I am sending you the audio of prelude of Bread of Angels. I will be answering your questions about it in Michigan if I am able. In any event you will hear from me again soon.

    Thank you for all your commentary so far. I’ll be rereading them and speaking about any new questions you have sent. Below is a little picture with my sister. A true angel. Sending all good wishes as I go….



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    7 min
  • Time for Questions

    I’ll be waiting for your questions concerning:

    The physical book

    The Prelude

    The Age of Reason

    Thank you everyone. I’m looking forward….



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    7 min
  • A little reading a little music

    Happy New Year Everybody. I am about to turn in but want to thank you all for all your support, all the birthday well-wishes and all the inspiration our tribe affords me.

    Have a contented day tomorrow, hold on to the good of being, and rest if possible. Before that, listen to Jimi ring in 1970…..

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    2 min

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