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Max Reif poet; children's picture/early reader; memoir; also working on a non-fiction book!

Max Reif
Max Reif
Walnut Creek, CA
Member since: Feb, 2009
Last login: 07/08/2009
Last update : 07/08/2009
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About Me

  • I scarcely know where to begin. Somehow, I just crossed the threshhold of my sixty-first birthday. Inside I've felt like twenty-one, mosly. I've been writing seriously--and playfully--since a pair of powerful spiritual awakenings in my twenties showed me that material Creation and artistic creativity are really external and internal aspects of the same, divine process.

MaxReif's Blog

  • THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS

    July 8, 2009

    • Author's Intro This is an intensely autobiographical, possibly even narcissistic piece. If anyone sticks with it and finds something universal in it, I'll be pleased. It was a pleasure to organize these threads of thinking and feeling about "the Good Life" that have been circulating in my being for nearly half a century.  THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS Something’s a little strange:I ...
  • Becoming a Poet

    March 25, 2009

    • BECOMING A POET 1.In college I never understood poetry. Certain distant acquaintances walked around in what appeared to be a kind of haze. People spoke of them, with a kind of awe, as poets. I didn't grasp their poetry, but I wanted to be spoken of that way, too! Whether most poets begin with such crass aspirations, I don't know. Most things that are worthwhile in my life, though, have begun with ...
  • ODE TO WALKING AND SINGING

    March 7, 2009

    • ODE TO WALKING AND SINGING (a poem)Someday I'll set off walking and singing a Holy Nameand never come backbecause there's nothing like it,small body under a great sky,walking stick and hatand the path-ribbon stretching out or loopingas far as you want to go,no good reason, really, to stop,especially when you sing,because the human voiceis a bird in a cage and song allows it to soar,and when at ...
  • FDR: Larger Than Life, Except That He Lived!

    February 28, 2009

    • What a story for a writer!And yet, to my knowledge, it's not yet the subject of a novel, a major movie drama, or a play*. And it's been more than half a century since the curtain closed on the life in question! I'm talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose life is the subject of a 4-part, 1994 PBS ("American Experience") documentary biography my wife and I watched recently on ...
  • A WRITER'S RESERVOIR

    February 22, 2009

    • Again I wonder whether anything edifying, inspiring, or otherwise "alive" will ever flow from my pen or keyboard.But then, I've been wondering that for decades now, and something always has. That's the miracle, isn't it, writers? We're sort of junkies for that creative hit. At least, I am. But it's not the kind of addiction I'd enter a 12-step group for. I WAS once in a 12-step group ...

Comments I've Written

  • ps:

    We just watched a 4-part PBS (from 1994) bio of FDR. What a story his life was! Scarcely even need a "dramatic" treatment, a documentary treatment is drama enough!
  • Oscars

    Haven't seen a one, this year...probably a combination of the prices and the fact that my wife has allergies that make it hard in public places sometimes. But I find LOTS of movies I like, we like, o
  • Revolutionary Road

    It seems you're saying Revolutionary Road is a state of mind. I'd like to know a little more explicitly what that state of mind is.
  • To Linda

    thanks! Yeah, it DOES work!

  • Congratulations, Shana!...

    On being the FIRST person to EVER reply to a blog of mine on this site...or in fact, EVER!


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