Continue Reading The Birds of Summer Yesterday I mentioned the dog(days) of summer; today it’s going to be the birds you saw flying around over these last many…
Continue Reading Dog Days Not sure what I cherish more – getting a surprise gift from a semi-anonymous source (a thousand thanks to B’s BFF)….) or…
Continue Reading Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen. Wrong life cannot be lived rightly (Adorno) I’ve talked about sloth, gluttony, envy and pride this week; proscriptions to work instead of play, accept a sparsely filled larder, resist…
Continue Reading Pride What a difference some centuries make. For Aristoteles pride was the crown of all virtues. Of course you had to both be…
Continue Reading Envy Originally I thought I’d write about envy, another of the 7 deadly sins, in the context of being a woman artist. It…
Continue Reading Gluttony I’ve mentioned before that I don’t like to cook. I like to eat but am pretty indifferent to what kind of food,…
Continue Reading Selective Sins The recurrent heat this summer has induced a certain idleness, which, as it turns out, I cherish. The absence of pressure to…
Continue Reading Nature’s Brush About a hundred years ago a lover used to call me the feuerrote Friderike, the fiery red Friderike. It was never resolved if…
Continue Reading Free Association One of my important goals in life is to be rational. I’ve always found irrationality to be a threat, leading to various…
Continue Reading Sailing away When my father was young and wild, cooped up in a small town in Lower Saxony, sweeping and cleaning the lab of…
