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    Rare Air Episode 5: Bradley Lake Trail

    November 2, 2014 - By Roger D.

    "Rare Air" is my original series of short travelogues intended to immerse us all in nature, if only for a minute.

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    Rare Air Episode 4: Fort Flagler State Beach

    September 1, 2014 - By Roger D.

    The day was sunny and warm in monumental ways… so that the vacation seemed to have turned over a new leaf.

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    Rare Air Episode 3: Kalaloch Beach

    August 3, 2014 - By Roger D.

    Kalaloch Beach, captured June 16, 2014.

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    Rare Air Episode 2: Quinault Rain Forest

    July 5, 2014 - By Roger D.

    Time in nature = sacred saturation.

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    Rare Air Episode 1: Shoshone National Forest

    June 10, 2014 - By Roger D.

    I hope you'll find something inspiring and perhaps somehow educational in these videos, and that some additional aspects of the world may find you through them.

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    May 27, 2014: Lucky fool

    May 27, 2014 - By Roger D.

    make any move you can - we all soon disappear.

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    Nov. 21, 1998: Character

    November 17, 2013 - By Roger D.

    In November of 1998, Beth and I were living in our Barrington Way townhome in Glendale, California, which hosted us and our cats nicely enough through a very exciting and challenging time. Going back to Arc of the Poet, that was our critical California move in the so-called “Fame and Fortune” era. While I was extremely thankful at that time to have landed on the staff of Crest National in Hollywood, my film industry dreams were still very personal, and I pressed on to the best of my abilities on every front. Externally, I continued to “swing for the fence”…

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    Oct. 13, 2013: The Perfect Record

    October 13, 2013 - By Roger D.

    The Perfect Record by Roger Darnell

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    March 7, 2013: Riley Art

    March 7, 2013 - By Roger D.

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    Let’s keep the world beautiful

    February 10, 2013 - By Roger D.

    We are very proud to be joining 10,000 like-minded friends in Washington, D.C., next Sunday (“President’s Day” in America), to be part of a peaceful demonstration. Why? For me personally, I can say for sure that a key reason is the deep emotional connection that occurred in me when I watched the above ad, and another more famous one named “The Crying Indian,” as a young boy about 42 years ago. It requested of me that I help “Keep America beautiful,” and on some level, I have been trying to do that ever since. Now more than ever, we are…

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