Episode 2308: WATER FOR THE ROSE by Wayne Luthi - a podcast by Ric Bratton

Water for the Rose by Wayne Luthi

Our world is a sea of poetry, yet with everyday demands for our attention and our survival, we are almost forced solely into the expedient. With little room left for a faculty that requires us to slow down for it to function, imagination, reflection, and wonder have to hitchhike to find their way to our deeper places. Like the old phonographs that played vinyl records, poems are running at 33rpm whereas the business of the everyday is running on 45 or 78rpm. 45 or 78rpm gets through the records a lot quicker but the beauty and clarity of the music are missed. The poems contained here are for when you have a moment to take that evening walk. The invitation is to find an experience of delight in an image or the association of images that we normally don't put together. My hope is that there are many pieces here that offer you a perspective that speaks to you in some way and maybe to a place in yourself that hasn't been spoken to for a while.

Native of San Francisco, 4 years in USAF as an air traffic controller 2 years in England, 1 year in Thailand: 1969 during Viet Nam War. Graduated from San Francisco State. BA. International Relations Worked 1 year with Procter & Gamble travelling U.S. managing sampling distribution of products in various cities.
Arrived in Louisville, Kentucky in 1974 and stayed, as I met my wife here.
We have been together for 47 years.
 Worked 17 years with IBM, both accounts administration and financial analyst.
 Our dept was downsized out Sept 30th '94.
Have been doing Landscape Design and Landscape Construction since Oct 1st of '74.
 Have just completed 27th year.
 Also: Private Pilot Taught/facilitated for The Manking Project.
 2002-2012 Trained in Family Constellatiions personal growth work facilitation --- have taught in Jefferson County Jail "Pathways Program" and have given workshops in Kentucky State Reformatory for group belonging to "Shakespeare Behind Bars" https://www.amazon.com/Water-Rose-Wayne-Luthi-ebook/dp/B09CJ8V58W

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I Am Here, Let’s Go Home: Poems of San Francisco, of Earlier Times and Places by Wayne Luthi

As with a gourmet meal, the whole experience is a combination of flavors, scent, presentation, and atmosphere. It is this that I strive for in my writing. Poets often take what has been given to them in their experience and deconstruct and reconstruct perception in a way that can offer the unconsidered a different perspective. Sometimes lyric can quiet or console, sometimes it can stick as a pollen grain of realization. Experiences of images, places, and people are shared here for the inner world of imagination and reflection, hopefully in a way that joins with something in you. The theme and focus of this work is of a time period when I lived in San Francisco, England, and Thailand. I was fortunate to “live” in the coffee houses and on the streets of the beat poets, to spend endless hours in the late Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Book Store. I was fortunate to have been able to play as a child in the sacred hollows of the redwood trees. This book celebrates those worlds.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FBNMBHC

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