Continue Reading Breathing the High-Altitude Ether of Discovery “Art-making embodies our private struggles with the meaning of life, the relationship between humanity and nature. In a time when our ability…
Continue Reading Of Books and Jailers When I came across Isobelle Ouzman’s project of cutting and drawing in old books my immediate association was one of contraband. Prison…
Continue Reading Perception of Time Today’s post is dedicated to my grandfather Eduard (1894 – 1977) a musician, bird lover and gentle soul. His birthday was yesterday. Canada…
Continue Reading Honor the Past, Respect the Present. How do you persist as an individual, a group, a people, when insult is added to injury in a never ending stream…
Continue Reading Of Fish and Men When humans were created, the Creator asked all the animals what they could do to help humans survive, as they didn’t know…
Continue Reading Polar Bears on the Move. Admiration: today’s images of polar bears taking over an abandoned weather station have gone viral in the last few weeks. Wildlife photographer…
Continue Reading The Year of the Tiger Two billion people across the world celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year tomorrow, 2/1/2022, the Year of the Tiger. Last week I…
Continue Reading Role Models. It was difficult not to think about reproductive rights across the last few days. Besides the looming Supreme Court decisions or Texas…
Continue Reading The Real Trial Lies Ahead. The Sparrows of Butyrk by Irina Ratushinskaya Now even the snow has grown sad –Let overwhelmed reason go,And let’s smoke our cigarettes through the…
Continue Reading Seeds and Such A young German historian, Annika Brockschmidt, recently published a book about America’s Holy Warriors (so far available in German only as Amerikas…
