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- Introduction to "FAITH OF AN ARTISTT" (this website)
- (Nov, 2020) LINKS to the My Life in Art pages on This Website
- NEW: Music Videos of songs from my CD, LOVE'S RIVER
- New! Video of Music/Poetry Concert at Meher Baba Circle of Friends in Myrtle Beach, Aug. 24, 2019
- Children's Songs of Mr. Max" (Max Reif) Also, "Mr. Max's Neighborhood", a new CD of songs!!
- Lyrics of Mr. Max's Children's Songs
- A Spiritual Autobiography Written As "Narrative Fiction" (stories from The Mindful Word)
- "The Ballad of a Warm Cafe," a fable about Love
- Essays
- Poems
- Reviews by Max
- Humor
- Meher Baba Writings
- Blog Archive
- Links
- The Valley of the Saints: a poem in 4 parts. [Written near Khuldabad, India in August, 2016]
- Art in My (Kali Yuga) American Childhood
- HOW ART SAVED MY LIFE! (Paintings from the Late '80s and Early /mid '90s)
- Meher Baba paintings from the '80s and '90s
- Recent Baba Paintings (2016-19)
- Paintings, 2016-19 (continued)
- Most Recent Baba paintings (2019-20)
- My Friendship with Baba's Painter, Lyn Ott
- Other Influences
- text of THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN
- Travel Photos, 2018: Oaxaca, Mexico
- A painting I saw at MALBA
- Aricle by Jamie Newell on Baba and Jung
- A fanciful take on THE ORIGINAL WHIM
- Pandemic Ghazal (written April 1, 2020)
- "After the Flood" by Francis Brabazon
- "Hymn To God The Man" by Francis Brabazon
- BOOKS, CDs, ART: MAX'S STORE
- Reviews of Max's work by others
- New Meher Baba Poem Aug 22 2020
- Lines Based Upon Baba's "Umbrella Simile" (short poem)
- "God Seeks" and "The Boxing Match": two short poems, words by Max, pictures by Simon Imagin
- His Healing Touch (New Poem-Poster)
- New Poem-Poster: "FEET, " made from a favorite painting and poem
- A recent painting I'd titled "Flow", and a brief meditation on Art
- "Father Please" 2013 painting w new graphic frame
- The Old Man Played His Drum (a new short story/graphic)
- Kabir/Bly poem: "What you call "Salvation" belongs to the time BEFORE death!"
- "Dreass My Soul In BABA" (poem and illustration)
- Wrestling with God in the Desert of the Mind
- New page
- Divine Time-Release (poem and picture)
- Some Game You Play! (poem/painting) Sept 28, 2020
- Morning Prayer, Oct. 3, 2020 (w picture)
- Polarities of Love (and a special painting)
- Photo of the 5 AM sky, and some lines it inspired!
- A Baba-Doodle inspired by the art of Paul Klee
- "ALTERNATING CURRENT" - a short story about a series of ECT (electric shock treatments) I had around 1980. How they helped things, AND how they also hurt things! And how the merciful SURPRISE HEALING came for that hurt, too!
- "Continuum" (poem and painting)
- "Creative Thoughts" (poem and painting)
- THIS Burden, Now!
- This life: Substructure for the Next (and a painting!)
- AND IF SUDDENLY IN A FLAH (poem w/painting)
- New Painting: "I Saw a Pink Cloud Come Out of Baba's Picture and Go into My New Friend Ian, Whom I Had Recently Told About Baba."
- BABA Mealtime-Yoga Self-Talk (a poem and a picture)
- Helplessness (poem w photo)
- Christmas Day Poem, AD 2020
- "Framing" (poem with picture)
- To Robbie (Robbie Basho)--a little poem begun during the movie about Robbie's life, a poem which ended in Silence and this little graphic
- "Testament on the Last Day of 2020 (poem with picture)
- "Letter from Prison" (Poem with fun picture!)
- A dream-figure's Hymn to the Dreamer (and picture)
- "The SS Hopeless and Helpless" (poem and cool photo!)
- ""The Girl at the Cafe' Rendezvous" w/picture
- "Ghazal While Making Breakfast" and a painting, "Tunnel of Love"
- I DO MY BEST! (short poem and picture!)
- "In Media Res", short poem w a whimsical picture! 3/15/2021
- "The Empty Restaurant" (illustrated story)
- My "Pilgrimage to Meher Baba" in His Lovers and Others in Latin America, Summer of 2018
- City of God (poem with painting)
- :THE SOUL IN DARKNESS IS VERY CLOSE TO LIGHT" (painting, 1989)
- "CARAVAN" (poster-poem)
- "Free the Swans!" poem and painting
- What You Wanted Me To REMEMBER! (poem and digital painting)
- "Ascension of Mehera" (painting, done 5/21/1989)
- A Great Story from Lyn Ott's Book
- When I Look Into Your Eyes (ghazal with painting)
- YOUR BOOK ghazal with picture
- BABA photocollage
- Pre-Silence Day POETRY ZOOM July 8 (info graphic)
- Three New Paintings posted July 2021
- Lyn Ott's Book To Be Read on BabaZoom. Promo Graphic Here!
- BABAZOOM Reading of Lyn Ott's Book Starts Tomorrow (Thurs, July 29)!
- BABAZOOM reading of Lyn Ott's Book IN QUEST OF THE FACE OF GOD continues tomorrow, August 12
- (poem) CONFESSIONS OF AN INMATE OF LIFE’S REHAB WARD with FUN illustration!
- POEM: An Artist's Meditation on the Dialogue with COLOR (with illustration)
- A new Mandala Painting Featuring Meher Baba's Face, and the Stages of Its Creation
- "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" from TOWARD AN INTERIOR SUN
- ALL-PERVADING portrait of Meher Baba and poem, October 8, 2021
- Douglas Stalker's Review of LOVE'S RIVER, a CD by Max Reif, produced by Cliff Hackford
- Dec, 2021: Latest paintings: a triptych (3-panel series) called "DOMESTIQUES" (formerly known as the HEAVEN WORLD series (There's a STORY here, too, folks!)
- "When You Make Something Beautiful" (POEM)
- Ode To a Marriage (Poem and Painting)
- "FULL IMMERSION" (new painting and poem)
- BERLIN, NOVEMBER, 1989 (Poem and painting)
- "The Ballad of a Warm Cafe" (story and illustration)
- "WAR, a villanelle" (poem) and Painting: "Archangel Michael and President Zelenskyy at the Great Gate of Kiev"
- Meher Baba Center of Northern California Spring Poetry Zoom!
- Jim Meyer's Lyrics to his song, "LOVE IS A TWO-EDGED SWORD".
- "DARK CLOUD" (4/22/22)
- MBCNC Poetry Zoom Wed April 27 at 7 pm PDT (California time)
- "Time's Precious" (a villanelle) lovely illustration too!
- New Painting: "The Two in the One"; "Devotion"' "Lover and Beloved" (??)
- "GIFT FROM THE SOURCE" a new painting June 27, 2022
- new painting BABA/"Ourobouros" Mandala, Aug. 29, 2022
- "I AM A PART OF THE INFINITE" (new painting, Sept 5, 2022)
- "Scheming" (new poem, a "Brabazonian ghazal",) and a fun illustration!
- Life-Celebration for DIck Anthony, a powerful outpouring of His LOVE!
- "REPEATED SINCERE PRAYER" new painting based on a Baba quote
- Max's "REAL SELFIE"
- A BIT OF PICTORIAL HISTORY: 3 Graphic Invitations to the New Life Poetry Zoom Oct 12, 2022
- "GOD HELP OUR WORLD", poem-prayer with illustration
- "STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD" (20"x20" acrylic on canvas)
- "And they shall be lost in ME" a poem by Michael Mathias
- new painting: "AT THE JUNCTURE" (of Heaven/Earth, Spirit/Matter, Illusion/Reality" (24"x24" acrylic on canvas
- "MY CITY OF LIONS", a reminiscence about growing up in University City, Missouri (written in 1984)
- MARRIAGE TRIPTYCH (2020-21)
- PALACE OF FIND ARTS, SAN FRANCISCO BAY, MARIN COUNTY
- COLLAGE AND ARTICLE based on Craig San Roque's chapter in the new Don Stevens Biography by Laurent Weichberger and Companions
- "THE DANCE" (painting, 2022)
- JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER (excerpt from Darwin Shaw's book AS ONLY GOD CAN LOVE
- THIS WAY TO REALITY graphic
- A GAME OF CHESS (rhymed ghazal and illustration)
- "House With Wings" (poem & picture)
- 8,400,000 Lives? (poem of humor and wonder)
- "DON'T WORRY--BE HAPPY" POSTER (poem)
- KHATUM prayer by Hazrat Inayat Khan
- (poem) THE MAP AND THE THING ITSELF
- INNER EFFORT (short poem)
- BABA"S FETUS (2021 painting) AND a 2024 poem for His Birthday titled "DID NOT BELIEVE I COULD WRITE YOU A BIRTHDAY POEM THIS YEAR"
- "PERSPECTIVE": a poem written on Meher Baba's 130th Birthday, and a painting.
- "THE KISS" (poem and painting)
- "Prevailing Winds" (poem and painting, March 4, 2024)
- "Questions Looking Back" a poem about high school in the mid-'60s
- "THAT FEELING" (poem and painting)
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