Continue Reading Sit down and rest for a while. I got my Covid booster yesterday and decided to cut myself some slack – my intended essay on Utopias can wait. They…
Continue Reading Farewell to a Founder. Judy Margles retires from the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (OJMCHE) “How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance? Someone has said that it requires…
Continue Reading “The Time is out of Joint.” “The time is out of joint; O cursed spite!/That ever I was born to set it right!” )” Shakespeare’s Hamlet after being…
Continue Reading Music during Times of War Less reading, more listening today. That is, if you’re inclined to follow me down the rabbit hole that opened up when…
Continue Reading Views from the Road – from Amusement to Awe. 40 years ago on this day my mother died suddenly and unexpectedly. I was a continent away and had to scramble to…
Continue Reading There will come soft rains I meant to brighten your Thanksgiving weekend with imagery of beautiful nature, all kinds of appealing fauna I came across during my…
Continue Reading Art On the Road: Surrealism and Subversion at The Getty. The work of William Blake/Photography by Arthur Tress O for a voice like thunder, and a tongueTo drown the throat of war! When the sensesAre shaken, and the soul is…
Continue Reading Cowboy Boots True confession: there was a time in my life where I longed for cowboy boots. Like looooonged. So much symbolism contained…
Continue Reading From Grapes to Gentrification: L.A.’s Art District. Walk with me. A slow amble under a hot November sun through strangely empty streets in central L.A. on a Saturday morning,…
Continue Reading Patterns of Conquest By Scott Greer (1922 – 1996) Scott Greer was Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at the University of Madison, Wisconsin,…
