My piece on my father’s missing manuscripts and notebooks was published in Beat Scene. Thank you Kevin Ring for highlighting this matter and supporting Mordecai of Monterey! Maybe some of Mordecai’s melanoia (the feeling that good things are going to happen) will grace us all! #keithabbott #keithkumasenabbott #beatscene #beatpoets #mordecai #monterey #longmontcolorado #naropa #persephoneabbott #watergate #zen #buddhism #bouldermennonitechurch #rhinoritz
I was, by all means, skeptical. My father had never shown any interest in organized religion, but there he was in front of me in his study in Longmont, Colorado. He was talking to me about sewing up his little pouch and explaining how my mother had helped him. This was possibly a few years after his refuge vow ceremony which I missed. At the time I had been in the process of moving from Singapore back to the Netherlands. I don’t recall if I actually had been invited to witness his vows. It seems to me that I had been told about the occasion and was, in some way, expected to show up. Didn’t I understand the importance? In years prior to Keith’s…
What happened to the literary legacy of my father, Keith Kumasen Abbott?
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Who was Mordecai? I am working on my father’s comic novel Mordecai of Monterey for (re)publication. And the character of Mordecai was based on a long time friend of my father’s, the poet Michael Sowl. And then there is the Miracle…
Update 11Aug24: This year I will be taking an extended trip to Washington State to visit family and friends. I will also be revisiting my father’s archives at the University of Western Washington in Bellingham. I am searching for my father’s missing archival material. My mother sent part of it to the archives but not all. I will be examining this for the coming weeks, months and years until I find it and have started a website devoted to my father’s works. Terry Stutzman Mast and Eldon Mast apparently handled the materials after my mother’s death. Do Eldon and Terry Mast Know Where My Father’s Missing Materials Are? My mother stipulated that Eldon and Terry Mast would buy her house at 1046 Grant Street…
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