Continue Reading It all depends on your perspective. Almost half a century ago, in 1975, The Boston Review published an interview with Susan Sontag about writing, photography and memory. As…
Continue Reading The Bright Sun was extinguish’d. Forgive me if my mind wanders even more than usual these days. I used to think of my habit of forming strange…
Continue Reading L’Shanah Tovah “ARMENIANS AGAINST HATE” it says in fat letters on a large banner hoisted in front of an Armenian Community Center. I drive…
Continue Reading Portraits, Doubled To end this week devoted to portraits I will tell two stories, one of a clever way to create indirect portraits, the…
Continue Reading The Beauty of Age I have visibly aged by about 100 years in the last month, through fear, worry, helplessness. No wonder then, that a…
Continue Reading Licentious Lines One of the definition of licentious is disregarding accepted rules or conventions, especially in grammar or literary style. The artist I am…
Continue Reading Hope for the Future In the dark times/Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing/About the dark times. –Bertholt Brecht, Motto to…
Continue Reading Verso If there is one positive thing I can think of that helps us through these weeks of anguish, it is the emotional…
Continue Reading The Grace of the World The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least…
Continue Reading Time Warp “A sense of purpose returned to him: he must wind his watch. He pulled it out. It had stopped. Till that moment,…
