To be faire, I think we're all idiots!
A shoe is a fountain is a pirate ship! There is an outdoor mall not far from where I live. It is, in most respects, a typical high end mall, generic in almost every way, except for its fountain feature. This shoe is interesting in and of itself, but the thoughtful creativity that goes into…
I’ve never taken an official Rorschach test. I don’t really know anything about them other than the pop culture references that have been ever present throughout my life. I can’t even tell you if the Rorschach test is something that psychiatry finds particularly useful. I do know that, in spite of the fact that I…
“At dinner I sat next to James Branch Cabell who asked me, Is Gertrude Stein serious? Desperately, I replied. That puts a different light on it, he said. For you, I said, not for me.” From What is Remembered by Alice B. Toklas Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context…
One thousand miles away from me today, there sits a huge bear made of straw with its straw pumpkin friend. 1000 miles away from me today, there is a woman who loves me enough to have shared it with me. I don’t care how old you are. If you come from a loving home, it…
Today was supposed to have been a day without work. It was supposed to be a day of relaxation and recuperation after a very intense moment. Today was not that kind of day. In the end it wasn’t a horrible day. It was just another day. For some reason that feels somehow worse, but I…
Some days are easier than others. They just flow into a rhythm that gives the impression you have no responsibility in any of it. Today has not been one of those kind of days. In fact I have them rarely over the last few years. But, seeing red doesn’t always have to signify a crisis….
(Photograph by J.L. Munn, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France) This sculpture (L’Age mûr or Maturity) is one of my favorites from Camille Claudel. In its painstaking detail, you find the culmination of a life hard lived in the name of art.
I think about climate change all the time. I didn’t need Greta to help me with that, but I applaud her for helping those that do. The more I see, the more I can’t help thinking that it’s funny to think that the collective of the middle and lower classes bought into the idea that…
This photograph reminds me that the framing of a thing really does change how we perceive something. I’ve walked by this tree countless times over the last decade and never once did this part of it come into focus. I framed what I saw, but will leave you to your own thoughts on this framing.
There is no mystery to me why “the West” is losing its competitive edge. Between universities that see students as asses in seats with a pay checks for faces and HR departments that never see the human in the resource, how could we not. One day someone will have to explain to me why it…