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The There There Letter: Lounging, Lunging, and Longing
January 11, 2024
Tiger woodcut by Franz Marc When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" (Sydney J. Harris) DAH is me, David...
The There There Letter: Urge, Ubiquity, and Utopia
January 4, 2024
"Cycling Home," by Simon Palmer It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. (Oscar Wilde) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance....
The There There Letter: Credulity, Curvet, and Crepuscular
December 28, 2023
Silhouettes woodcut by Jeanne Amato Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog,...
The There There Letter: Sandwich, Sundown, and Sanctuary
December 21, 2023
Sunset Pathway woodcut by Steven Noble "Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so...
The There There Letter: Together, Trust, and Tonic
December 14, 2023
woodcut by Jeffrey Thompson It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. (Yogi Berra) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This...
The There There Letter: Feast, Fizz, and Frisky
December 7, 2023
Thanksgiving Turkey woodcut by Harry Cimino If you obey all the rules, you miss all of the fun. (Katharine Hepburn) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This...
The There There Letter: Deptford, Drambuie, and Dough
November 30, 2023
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. Christopher Marlowe DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This Letter is Free every Friday! You can...
The There There Letter: Geography, Greenwich, and Globe
November 25, 2023
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. (Terry Pratchett) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This Letter is Free every...
The There There Letter: Rumbustious, Rumpelstiltskin, and Ralph Roister Doister
November 9, 2023
Gray Jay woodcut by Betsy Bowen I am sorie God made me so comely. (Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister, Act I, sc. ii) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This...
The There There Letter: Wit, Wellerisms, and Well-made plays
November 2, 2023
Linocut by Fiona Horan (Sussexcards) I'm not funny. What I am is brave. (Lucille Ball) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This Letter is Free every Friday! You...
The There There Letter: October, Ochre, and Oven
October 26, 2023
Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar. (Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing) DAH is me,...
The There There Letter: Variety, Vitality, and Vivacity
October 19, 2023
Woodcut by Kate Mitchell I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. (William Ernest Henley) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This Letter is Free...
The There There Letter: News-Avoidance, Noise-Abatements, and Now-Annoyance
October 12, 2023
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. (Alice Morse Earle) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This...
The There There Letter: Jackanapes, Jiggery-Pokery, and Jactitation
October 5, 2023
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. (William Shakespeare) DAH is me, David Anthony...
The There There Letter: Bountiful, Benevolent, and Bookish
September 28, 2023
They gave each other a smile with a future in it. (Ring Lardner) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This Letter is Free every Friday! You can subscribe and...
The There There Letter: Kiddish, Kooky, and Kissing
September 21, 2023
Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful. (Ann Voskamp) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This Letter is Free every...
The There There Letter: Evitable, Elephant, and Eastlick
September 14, 2023
Elephant linocut by Ieuan Edwards Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind (Lionel Hampton) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This...
How Embarassing: An Apology
September 8, 2023
In yesterday's TheThereThere letter, an egregious error marred "Madrid." My mind wandered from Iberia to Italy in suggesting that our San Luis Obispo wine...
The There There Letter: Madrid, Macaronesia, and Melilla
September 7, 2023
Woodcut art by Eko There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. (George Santayana) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This Letter is Free...
The There There Letter: Yokel, Yare, and Yoicks
August 31, 2023
Woodcut art by David Witbeck The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. (Alan Watts) DAH is me, David...
The There There Letter: Itty-Bitty, Indulge, and Inure
August 24, 2023
woodcut art by Ruonan Yan You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. (Will Rogers) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This...
The There There Letter: Zig, Zag, and Zipper
August 17, 2023
Artwork by Irving Amen I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it. (Laurence Olivier) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This...
The There There Letter: Marmalade, Murmuration, and Malarkey
August 10, 2023
The "Dog Days of Summer." July 3 to August 11. The hottest days of the season. The Romans called them "dies caniculares" or "days of the dog star," now...
The There There Letter: Groovy, Genuine, and Gratitude
August 3, 2023
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. (Irina Dunn) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This Letter is Free every Friday! You can subscribe and browse...
The There There Letter: Xylography, Xeric, and Xenial
July 27, 2023
… (is) there any point in being alive without helping one another? (Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These) DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This Letter is...
The There There Letter: Aught, Alackaday, and Adieu
July 20, 2023
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy, unreason, lust." — Salman Rushdie DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. This Letter is Free every Friday! You can subscribe...
The There There Letter: Quarrelous, Qualmish, and Quaver
July 13, 2023
To-morrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense (Ralph Waldo Emerson) DAH is...
The There There Letter: Wobble, Wanhappy, and With
July 6, 2023
When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. (Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll) DAH is me,...
The There There Letter: Popeye, Peaches, and Poppyock
June 29, 2023
I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. (Wimpy, a character in Popleye the Sailor Man, by Elzie Crisler Segar) Three things from DAH. The There...
The There There Letter: Hole, Holy, and Hiraeth
June 22, 2023
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. (Charles M. Schulz) Three things from DAH. The There There:...
The There There Letter: Last, Lost, and Lust
June 15, 2023
When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about. (Haruki Murakami) Three things from DAH. The...
The There There Letter: Undercut, Undertake, and Underwater
June 8, 2023
All the water that will ever be is, right now … and once it is destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price. (Thales of Miletus, 600 BC)...
The There There Letter: Cracker Jack, Chinatown, and California
June 1, 2023
(Diane Ladd as Ida Sessions) "Are you alone?" (Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes) "Isn't everybody?" (from the movie Chinatown, 1974) Three things from DAH. The...
The There There Letter: Qindar, Quit, and Quincunx
May 25, 2023
Take care of those you call your own and keep good company. (Queen/Brian May, Good Company, from A Night At The Opera) Three things from DAH. The There...
The There There Letter: Yen, Yummy, and Yes
May 18, 2023
"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup." (Wendell Berry) Three things from DAH. The There There: Where the heart...
The There There Letter: Xylem, Xoanon, and Xylomancy
May 11, 2023
I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me. (Alan Jay Lerner) Three things from DAH. The There There: Where the heart is. DAH is me, David Anthony...
The There There Letter: Zany, Zeal, and Zip
May 4, 2023
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. (Emile Zola) Three things from DAH. The There There: Where the...
The There There Letter: Knowledge, Kindness, and Kindred
April 27, 2023
Jealous man can't gamble, scared man can't win (Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem) Three things from DAH. The There There: Where the heart is. DAH is me, David...
The There There Letter: New, Never, and Now
April 20, 2023
There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh. (Lupita Nyong'o) Three things from DAH. DAH is me, David...
The There There Letter: Jangle, Jiggle, and Juggle
April 13, 2023
Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy. (Jackie Gleason) Three things from DAH. DAH is me, David Anthony...
The There There Letter: Observer, Occupier, and Omnivore
April 6, 2023
"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath." (Oscar Levant) Three things from DAH. DAH is me, David Anthony Hance....
The There There Letter: Saugeais, Sark, and Sealand
March 30, 2023
Three things from DAH. DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. "I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." (Anatole France) This Letter is Free...
The There There Letter: Useful, Unexpected, and Understanding
March 23, 2023
Three things from DAH. Free every Friday! You can subscribe and browse past issues HERE DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. "… something can be made sacred by...
The There There Letter: Variety, Verve, and Voila!
March 16, 2023
Three things from DAH. Free every Friday! You can subscribe and browse past issues HERE DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. Life sorely lacks adequate rehearsal...
The There There Letter: TheThereThere, Terroir, and Tantalize
March 9, 2023
Three things from DAH. Free every Friday! You can subscribe and browse past issues HERE DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. "One of the ways we humans organize...
The There There Letter: Forgather, Formative, and Frolic
March 1, 2023
Three things from DAH. Free every Friday! Except this one's coming to you on Thursday because I'll be in a car early on Friday morning. You can subscribe and...
The There There Letter: Birdsong, Birthright, and Birthday
February 23, 2023
Three things from DAH. Free every Friday! You can subscribe and browse past issues HERE DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. Looking forward to another fine mess...
The There There Letter: Erratic, Errors, and Eros
February 16, 2023
Three things from DAH. Free every Friday! You can subscribe and browse past issues HERE DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. "Any man can make mistakes, but only...
The There There Letter: Id, Idiot, and Identity
February 9, 2023
Three things from DAH. Free every Friday! You can subscribe and browse past issues HERE DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. Borrowed from my dear friend Susana …...
The There There Letter: Monkeys, Monkfish, and Melodrama
February 2, 2023
Three things from DAH. Free every Friday! Except I'm driving early on Friday morning, so I'm sending this Thursday evening to save on stress. You can...
 
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