Postcards from Gravelly Beach – Global literature pod dispatches

Rather raw, first sampling from the Shelter Crescent session featuring Brad Rees playing electric guitar while I talk and yodel my way around some freeverse – seems to be thinking about waiting for a red-headed girl in San Francisco while drinking at an unwelcome bar.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard27ShelterCrescentSessionPart1RedheadedGirlInSanFrancisco/Postcard-27-Shelter-Crescent-Session-Part-1-Redheaded-Girl-in-San-Francisco.mp3

Peek through the curtains for: Red-headed Girl in San Francisco from Shelter Cove – Postcard #27 (10:31, 16MB, .mp3)

Brighton Beach East Vancouver – where Brad and I probably just had a toke or two

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Contemplating the edge of the (then known to Western folks) Earth with Henry the Navigator in this sixth instalment of the Woodshed Session featuring Bill Lenker’s guitar stylings / singing and me wondering why he went out into the unknown instead of turning right (or even  left).

https://archive.org/download/Postcard26HenryGoingToGaliciaFromWoodshed/Postcard-26-Henry-Going-to-Galicia-from-Woodshed.mp3

Sail into the unknown for: Henry Going to Galicia from the Woodshed – Postcard #26 (6:00, .mp3, 5MB)

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The fifth Woodshed session choogles along with a free verse extravaganza with Bill Lenker playing on the guitar and singing in-betwixt as I spiel forth words, memories, ideas and rhymes – topics include George Washington bridge, Providence parks, postcards to friends, and going nowhere.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard25CuriosityInRainstormsTheWoodshed/Postcard-25-Curiosity-in-Rainstorms-the-Woodshed.mp3

No umbrella needed for: Curiosity in Rainstorms from the Woodshed – Postcard #25 (11:00, .mp3, 12MB)

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The second Woodshed Session again features Bill Lenker on guitar and DaveO with free verse and lyrical snippets. This time, observations from a rainy night in Vancouver is the tangible topic – the intangibles are for you to determine.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard22ConsideringVancouverCobblestonesWoodshed/Postcard-22-Considering-Vancouver-Cobblestones-Woodshed.mp3

Watch your step on: Considering Vancouver Cobblestones from the Woodshed – Postcard #22 (4:34, 4MB, .mp3)

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Go on a trip for this next Woodshed session, again Bill Lenker on guitar and singing, and Dave busting some narrative about items on a bookshelf and reminiscing about Caye Caulker, Belize.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard24BelizeBookshelfObservationsAtWoodshed/Postcard-24-Belize-Bookshelf-Observations-at-Woodshed.mp3

Runaway to a Caye for: Belize and Bookshelf Observations at the Woodshed – Postcard #24 (7:22, 7MB, .mp3)

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Rolling along with the Woodshed Sessions, here’s number 3 … again Bill Lenker’s guitar and songwriting/singing skills along with my free verse and lyrical snippets – this time about lighthouses, aspen trees and an insinuated scandalous incident.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard23TemporaryLighthousesFromWoodshed/%20Postcard-23-Temporary-Lighthouses-from-Woodshed.mp3

Light the signal lamp for: Temporary Lighthouses from the Woodshed – Postcard #23 (7:50, 7MB, .mp3)

A lighthouse in Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, Canada faces the onslaught of the wild Pacific

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A postcard from (along with the next few) the Steamboat Island woodshed with Bill Lenker’s guitar and vocals (see Postcard #13) dove-tailing with original free verse and lyrical works – fortified with spontaneous word-i-fication. First up in this series comes Bill’s song combined with my semi-rhymey verses about riding trains through Cascadia.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard21CascadiaStarlightWoodshedSession/Postcard-21-Cascadia-Starlight-Woodshed-Session.mp3

All aboard for: Cascadia Starlight in a Woodshed Session – Postcard #21 (11:48, 5MB, .mp3)

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Out on a nighttime walk, Dave sits in the frosty grass under a tree, by a pond, with a Guinness and reads ‘post-modern’ stories by Murakami Haruki, Raymond Carver, Kelsye Nelson and himself, as well as offering up festivus gift ideas.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard20ShortFictionCoincidentallyAboutDrinking/Postcard-20-Short%20Fiction-Coincidentally-about-Drinking.mp3

Pour a sturdy one for: Short Fiction, Coincidentally about Drinking – Postcard #20 (21;20, 20MB, .mp3)

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From a snowy porch with raccoons chirping nearby, Dave reads from Richard Brautigan, Phillip Whalen, ee cummings, Walt Whitman plus his original free verse while enjoying Pernod and ginger-ale.

https://archive.org/download/Postcard19SnowyNighttimePorchWithRaccoons/Postcard-19-Snowy-Nighttime-Porch-with-Raccoons%20.mp3

Don a toque for: Snowy Nighttime Porch with Raccoons – Postcard #19 (14MB, 15:23, .mp3)

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On a foggy morning with Osmanthus tea, Dave reads tales by professor Larry Harper – “The Man Who Loved Provo,” and his own “Right (as in Correctly)” plus a snippet from Natsume Soseki’s very wabi-sabi classic “Kokoro.”

https://archive.org/download/Postcard18AWabiSabiFoggyMorning/Postcard-18-A-Wabi-Sabi-Foggy-Morning.mp3

Be beautiful in decay for: A Wabi-Sabi, Foggy Morning – Postcard #18 (18:22, 17MB, .mp3)

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