Continue Reading This Sleepy Backwater Housekeeping first: I am taking part of next week off from the blog, need to spend some time photographing, something that has…
Continue Reading Jurisprudence for the Bad Times 7/25/023 This appeared in my inbox yesterday, after Netanyahu and his brethren had pushed through legislation that a majority of Israeli citizens opposes….
Continue Reading The full story Today I am offering a selection of favorite photographs from New Mexico. Reading a few things related to the new film that…
Continue Reading Judge for yourself. Today I am linking to a short piece in Buzzfeed. It shows images that Artificial Intelligence generated when asked to capture the…
Continue Reading A Bird came down the Walk A Bird, came down the Walk – (359)BY EMILY DICKINSONA Bird, came down the Walk – He did not know I saw…
Continue Reading Covers Let’s start the week on a lighter note – did I hear a collective sigh of relief? I came across some…
Continue Reading Thoughts about war, again. Walk with me, on a hot day of wispy, white clouds and lines of dry grasses. It was sparse in the bird department,…
Continue Reading The Humanity of the Moment. Rembrandt van Rijn and Henk Pander at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education IT SEEMS TO BE the rule these days: every time I visit a new exhibition at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center…
Continue Reading Possible Worlds. Last week I came across a short interview with some notable writers all focused on the climate crisis. Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young…
Continue Reading Women and Words Layli Long Soldier’s (Oglala Lakota) first full-length collection Whereas (2017) won the National Books Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the National Book…
