The San Fran Frisco Public Library asked me to create a video trailer about Pura Neta for their “Hooked on a Book” series. Here I present to you my version with musical accompaniment and their trailer without music. Every image … Continue reading Hooked on a Book: SF Public Library’s Pura Neta Video Trailer
I carry a notebook and write everywhere. Today’s writing at Lake Merritt: Today is my father’s birthday, and I am the prodigal son. He has been gone forty years, but I think he would still accept me back, regardless of … Continue reading A Simple Servant
“State of Bean” To bean orNot to bean? That is the question Don’t explain your answerJust bean orDon’t beanThere’s really nothing to itSit there like a bean orJump like a beanIt is the same thingYou are what you areA Bean … Continue reading “State of Bean”
Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust Barrio Bushido. Spanish-Japanese loosely translated as Street Honor. Sick-with-it Sav vida loca philosophy, tragedy, and victory. Amor in its finest form. Today, February 17, marks ten years, a full decade, since the rainy evening … Continue reading Barrio Bushido: 10 Years of Street Honor, Ashes, and Dust
With lots of love, I share some good news. I know it’s tough all around right now. I, too, feel it and am doing my best to make it a little better day by day, moment by moment, which, in … Continue reading Guardsman News Article on Pura Neta: “Benjamin Bac Sierra on the Reality of Fiction”
September 14th 1996 To Benjamin Bac Sierra, a Brother poet writer, a friend. “There is no such word as defeat if we are what we eat, we are what we think, so let us not mug our minds with thoughts … Continue reading Piri
Words can do anything you want them to do. They are an all-around transformational power literally at your fingertips. You can caress them and lay them gently into a treasure box, or you can shoot them out to stars. Praxis, … Continue reading “Why Write? Praxis (Part 7 of 7)”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Those words got style, power, and lots of love. They are simple words, not overly intellectual, but they encapsulate our entire existential … Continue reading “Why Write? Style (Part 6 of 7)”
Whatever you write will be left for eternity, so you should write everything with sincerity. Imagine your audience will hang up your words like a work of art. In order to become skilled in this martial art, you must practice. … Continue reading “Why Write? Skills (Part 5 of 7)”
Today I travel into my 20th year of teaching, learning, and sharing at City College of San Francisco. This is not simply my job; this is my life. This semester, like all past semesters, we will share some life, even … Continue reading “Why Write? Consciousness and Courage (Part 3 of 7)”
Todo Bodo Down: The Bac Sierra Blog 