Stu Jenks' Fezziwig Press

Pamela's Baby Rocking Chair, entangled on the side of a tobacco barn...

"Pamela's Baby Rocking Chair, entangled on the side of a tobacco barn, Surry County, North Carolina" (c) 2019 Stu Jenks.

 

"Buddhist Church of San Francisco"

"Buddhist Church of San Francisco" (c) 2014 Stu Jenks.

Graphic Pen Images From The Novel

Been working on a backlog of images that may be chapter headers for the novel I'm writing. Images from Memphis, Pacifica, San Francisco, Picacho and Barstow.

I have been on the road a lot this year, haven't I? From North Carolina, Virginia, California, and parts inbetween.

It's good to be stationary for a while, working at my desk, with cool wet night air drifting in from outside, and the smell of lavender on my hands from a living plant I purchased today.

Happy Solstice everyone.

The Sun will return.

 

Now available, on the Apple IPad: The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010) and Bozo In Love

Been a long time coming for The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010).

Three editors, two proofreaders, two designers, four printers, and hours, days, weeks, months, years, lifetimes, (I know I'm overstating), of writing, traveling, shooting, editing, remembering, hiking, and more writing, shooting, and editing, but I'm not complaining. No, no, no.

And apologies for not having the dough right now, to print The Transpersonal Papers as a coffee-table book as I had originally planned. ($10,000, it would have cost. Maybe someday.) But you now can buy it, for $14.95, as an Ebook on the Apple IPad, and I expect it to be available within a couple days on the Nook and the Kindle as well.

I just looked at it on my new IPad. The photos, text and design look grand.

And as an extra surprise, Bozo In Love is now up on IBooks too, ($9.95), as well as the rest of my catalog: Flame Spirals, Hoop Dancing, and Dementia Blues, on IBooks, Nook and Kindle.

Just in time for Christmas.

And don't worry. All but The Transpersonal Papers can still be bought as a book book through Fezziwig Press. I have plenty. Just go to www.fezziwigpressonline.com, for the hardbounds and paperbacks, but go to ITunes, today, (and Kindle and Nook, soon) for the ebooks.

Heavy sigh from my third story apartment balcony. I look out onto the Tucson city lights in the valley below. Cold, dry air embraces me. I inhale deeply. Exhale.

A very good night in the desert.

Think I'll make a cup of coffee with egg nog and play some Angry Birds on my new IPad.

Time to celebrate.

 

"Bisbee Prayer Flags"

"Bisbee Prayer Flags, Arizona" (c) 2010, 2011 Stu Jenks

(Happy Epiphany, to all the wise men, women and children out there.)

"Buddhism in Bisbee"

"Buddhism in Bisbee" (c) 2010 Stu Jenks

[An Infrared image taken with my old Rollei, from atop Youngblood Hill in Bisbee, Arizona. Could be Arizona. Could be India. Could be just about anyplace. Could be everyplace.]

'Loving-Kindness' from Pema Chodron

"...but loving-kindness-maitri-toward ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. Maitri means that we can still be crazy, we can still be angry. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. Mediation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away or become something better. It's about befriending who we are already..." - Pema Chodron "Comfortable with Uncertainty"