#john fielder

[scandanaviancraponacracker]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Getting ready for snow. Sunset at Crestone Peak in the San Luis Valley, Saguache County, Colorado. Photo: John Fielder (Nov 1, 2024)

[Robert Scott Horton]

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"John Ashbery, in an interview in the Poetry Miscellany, talks about wasting time: "I waste a lot of time. That's part of the [creative process] . . . The problem is, you can't really use this wasted time. You have to have it wasted. Poetry disequips you for the requirements of life. You can't use your time."In other words, wasted time cannot be filled, or changed into another habit; it is a necessary void of fomentation. And I am wasting your time, and I am aware that I am wasting it; how could it be otherwise? 

Many others have spoken about this. 

Tess Gallagher: "I sit in the motel room, a place of much passage and no record, and feel I have made an important assault on the Great Nothing." Gertrude Stein: "It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing." 

Mary Oppen: "When Heidegger speaks of boredom he allies it very closely with that moment of awe in which one's mind begins to reach beyond. And that is a poetic moment, a moment in which a poem might well have been written." The only purpose of this lecture, this letter, my only intent, goal, object, desire, is to waste time. For there is so little time to waste during a life, what little there is being so precious, that we must waste it, in whatever way we come to waste it, with all our heart." 

- Mary Ruefle Madness, Rack, and Honey [whiskey river]

[oldshowbiz]

The Christmas Classic

[filmpalette]

12 Angry Men (1957) dir. Sidney Lumet

[coffeecatfilms]

The Onion + 12 Angry Men (1957)

[cinemagal]

12 Angry Men (1957)  Dir. Sidney Lumet

[dfilms]

John Fielder, born 3 February 1925, first appeared in a Disney movie as the voice of Piglet. He later provided many other character voices for Disney as well as some live action roles.

[oldshowbiz]

“Yes, this is the voice of Piglet speaking.”