Continue Reading Writing with a Crystal Vision. Instead of a poem I am posting a short essay today, found here, in Vanity Fair of all places, a publication…
Continue Reading Reds against Blues Hard times when sadness hits. Advice comes in all forms and shapes and levels of triteness (if earnestly felt), levels of pragmatism,…
Continue Reading A Visit to the Future and the Past. I had a strange dream last night. A dear friend finally managed to introduce me to Ursula LeGuin, who was somehow still…
Continue Reading Leaves, Folded If Nari Ward, who I introduced yesterday, is a master of conceptual installations, Sam Gilliam stands out with his abstractions. I say…
Continue Reading If only… “If only I could….” must be one of the most frequently uttered sentence fragments of this constraint- and fear-ruled year. If only…
Continue Reading Doing the Heavy Lifting Who should do the heavy lifting? Preferably someone else other than yourself, it seems, when you look at how people generally are…
Continue Reading The Dream World and the Real World are the same. There I was mid- afternoon, back to my old haunts, this time Oaks Bottom. Looking one way, a fall landscape of etherial…
Continue Reading Seeking a Model You surely know those days when everything, even the most innocuous bit, takes on a dark halo, a portent, a trigger for…
Continue Reading Kristallnacht, 2020 Yesterday, November 9th, marked the anniversary of Kristallnacht, a date when Germany and Jews around the world commemorate the November progrom(s) against…
Continue Reading Thoughts in Yellow I figured we’d celebrate the wave of relief felt by more than half of this country with a color that stands for…
