Continue Reading Contradictions: Divination vs Mathematics Really, the precise formulation should be divination producing geometric art used in faith healing – too clunky a title of course. But…
Continue Reading Contradictions: Science vs Magic I’m torn today between choices of theme for the blog. Contradictions? Surprises? Puzzles? Since I dislike puzzles, feel ambivalent about surprises…
Continue Reading Musical Cities: Portland, OR Since I couldn’t decide if Vienna, Paris or Berlin deserved the last slot of our mini series, I turned to Portland. We…
Continue Reading Musical Cities: Amsterdam Quick, name a Dutch painter. Right, the one that came immediately to mind was…. let me guess: Rembrandt? van Gogh? Bosch? Hals?…
Continue Reading Musical Cities:Venice Let’s mention Antonio Vivaldi – and then move on. Of all the musicians associated with Venice (where he was born and taught…
Continue Reading Musical Cities: Hamburg As I mentioned yesterday, this week will ride on borrowed material. Here is the source article about musical cities, and of course…
Continue Reading Music as a Commodity This week I will cheat and have other sources provide some food for thought – or stimulus for joy – rather than…
Continue Reading All Things Being Equal… I had let my membership at the Portland Art Museum lapse. Too much of the programming was, at best, not particularly interesting,…
Continue Reading If in doubt, take a walk So ok, I was muttering. Venting, really. Blabbering. One of those days when everything that could irritate did irritate. R e a…
Continue Reading Compassion & Choices “Some consider death as a landing; others see it as a point of lift-off.” …
