Continue Reading Of Rodents and Rituals Long moans, yelps, grunts, clicks, mews, hisses and squeaks are the main auditory communications of prehensile-tailed, Brazilian porcupines. Quill rattling and tooth…
Continue Reading Spring, the umpteenth look. NostosThere was an apple tree in the yard —this would have beenforty years ago — behind,only meadows. Driftsoff crocus in the damp…
Continue Reading Bear Divide A friend sent a poem this week that had me thinking ever since. I was riveted by the way it palpably conveys…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Sculptures with stories. If you asked me if I prefer exhibitions that feature a single artist or those that display the work of many different…
Continue Reading Of Deer and Depletion Walk with me, on a rain drenched Sunday in the Pacific Northwest. First we trudge through my garden – have the galoshes…
Continue Reading Only if we let them… This week I received an email with one of the irregular posts by the Public Professor, whose writing I cherish. Akim Reinhardt,…
Continue Reading WHAT A DAY My morning visitors, just beyond the kitchen door, were two parrots. I was lured outside because I heard their incredibly loud squawking…
Continue Reading Rain check Checking out SoCal fashion in the rain and cold – crazy weather for mid-April, and clever outfits to meet the challenge, colorful…
Continue Reading (Re)Birth There have been rich moments during my stay at the Californian Zorthian Ranch, in the course of daily wanderings, or, for that…
Continue Reading Art On the Road: Imagined Fronts – The Great War and Global Media at LACMA “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” – Quote attributed to Leon Trotsky but actually…
