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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse

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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #35: Moons and Mirrors, Fathers and Sons

  • Charles Kruger
  • July 28, 2017
So, I had a vision this morning in which I visited the moon. What’s that? You don’t have visions? Oh, my friend, you must learn to have visions; it is…
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The Storming Bohemian #34: Descent into the Underworld

  • Charles Kruger
  • July 7, 2017
The last time I punked the muse, I wrote of the summer solstice, a meditation into the heart of the sun. My goal was to leave behind the ever-more-depressing news…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #33: Solstice Soul Song

  • Charles Kruger
  • June 23, 2017
Today I write on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice. As someone who has been influenced by not a few pagan practitioners and Wiccan wonder workers, along…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #32: Make the Soup

  • Charles Kruger
  • June 9, 2017
I am meditating. In a room in Rodeo, at the rickety old secretary/dresser I use as a desk. It is by a window. I look out at the roadway, and…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #31: Pulling the Trigger on Father’s Day

  • Charles Kruger
  • June 2, 2017
June is an ambivalent month for me. As a child it meant the start of summer vacation, and weeks spent at my grandparent’s beautiful beach home in Hyannisport. This was…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #30: Walk On

  • Charles Kruger
  • May 26, 2017
This Tuesday was, by no means, a good news day. The night before was the tragedy in Manchester, England, at which a suicide bomber killed children at a pop concert.…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #29: Poetry Is an Affliction

  • Charles Kruger
  • May 19, 2017
On Thursday night, May 25, an amazing event will take place outside a BART train station in the Mission District of San Francisco, as it has every Thursday night for the…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks The Muse #28: Let’s Do Dinner

  • Charles Kruger
  • May 12, 2017
Dinner party! Now that the garden is starting to look nice, and the cats are becoming less feral and more civilized, and Klopnik has begun to change (occasionally) out of…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #27: Spring Is Sprung

  • Charles Kruger
  • May 5, 2017
It is springtime for sure in the house of The Storming Bohemian and Argyle C. Klopnik. All day, every day, Klopnik digs his garden. Our once-chaotic backyard is now a…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #26: Love Is the Ultimate Trip

  • Charles Kruger
  • April 28, 2017
My day job is driving on the ride sharing platform, Lyft. Several years ago, I retired from teaching school to devote myself to writing and painting and lived off savings…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse

  • Charles Kruger
  • April 21, 2017
The Storming Bohemian is away this week, doing his taxes. He’ll return when Uncle Sam lets him loose again (next week).
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #25: Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Success?

  • Charles Kruger
  • April 14, 2017
In America, everybody, it seems, wants to be a success. Me, too. Recently, I confided to a family member that sometimes, in moments of deep despair (fortunately they are fairly…
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