As Say Ray fixed his Volvo, Jeff Carleton sat beside the Szabo water sculpture at the apex of Cali Ave Tuesday enjoying the misty ions and dry spring sunlight. I happened upon him en route by bike to North Venura Area (?!), stopping more because my wife Terry Acebo Davis was an arts commissioner during our negotiations with Michael Szabo than that I recognized Jeff.

I met Jeff on Earth Day April of 1993 and only a handful of times since then but we swapped stories of our overlapping circles of these last four decades here.

He showed me via webpage and smartphone the planet-Earth-themed sculpture he had created for that event 25 years ago

He sent via text, for Plastc Alto Blog, his photo of Annie Dog in her characteristic “top of the world/hood” pose.

A transcript of our talk might run 10,000 worlds or more .

But I left thinking, or a short time later of John Cage’s famous yet often misunderstood or mocked “4’ 33” “ composition for prepared piano and ambient hall   (Sometimes known as four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence).

edit to add, seven hours later:

this is America

Doggie lover w. Donny Glover