Continue Reading Yeats Season Geflügelte Worte is a term in the German language that refers to aphorisms, bon mots or figures of speech that have made their way…
Continue Reading Bright Spots The Pacific Northwest light is once again dark grey and streaked with rain. Sheets of rain, really. Needs to be counterbalanced and…
Continue Reading Horsing Around The rest of the week should provide something less political, more uplifting, wouldn’t you agree? What caught my eye, then, was a…
Continue Reading Der Anschluss Since Sunday you could not open the US or European newspapers I read and not find some speculative commentary about the election…
Continue Reading Going Back in Time Last weekend a young friend introduced me to the term natural living skills. They are taught in communities around the country who share the…
Continue Reading Glimpses of History Perhaps this week we should turn to history – or at least some interesting tidbits that are loosely related to the past. Luckily,…
Continue Reading Books about and by women artists Lesendes Mädchen (1828) Gustav Adolph Henning A dear friend gave me a German magazine that is devoted to books – a special edition that dealt…
Continue Reading Art and Politics (2) Yesterday I mused about museums; today I’m thinking about artists. There is so much written about how artists engage in the political…
Continue Reading Art and Politics (1) Wouldn’t you know it. I thought I knew every major museum in NYC after having lived there for years and visited for…
Continue Reading The Rev. Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir Show me someone’s blog that opens with an Emma Goldman quote, consider me hooked. If that quote refers to small communal interactions…
