One Take

This blog, like me has been through stages, changes. A common blogging theme seems to be what to write about, keeping up the blog, etc. The issue for me is the reverse. Jack writes often on his blog. At times I've posted here that freely and that often, but not always. So much of this blog, like so much of me is about holding back.

Last year I called Sean Penn winning over the favored Mickey Rourke. This year my ballot is filled with favorites. I suspect there will be an upset in one of the major categories, like when Marion Cotilard one, but I don't feel it - there may not be. Like most critics and fans I'm expecting the expected this year. If anyone (in five years no-one has ever responded here to my Oscar related writings) has any thoughts on the twenty four nominations you'd like to share here, please do.

I got to the city at 1:00 PM today and walked and sat and thought and wrote for hours..

Central Park at two

Man lifts baby on shoulders

Wife lifts up her jeans

Children chirp. foreigners chat

Man holds son's hand and leads him

"Not sure where I'm at

so let me know where you're at:"

story of my life.

We each have a voice

Do you hear that this is mine?

Respond in your voice

I sit on a bench

I am sitting on a bench

I sigh, am alive

Old, wheelchair - followed

by a couple with stroller:

the cycles of life