Continue Reading Singing Sands Sometimes I read something about people I have never heard of before and I spontaneously think: wouldn’t it be cool to meet…
Continue Reading Fall Birds Yesterday I posted photographs of painted birds – today I feel inclined to share the real thing. I can never decide which…
Continue Reading A Woman ahead of the Times This surgery shortened week is devoted to cheerful passions and preoccupations. For me, birds belong in the former category, graffiti in the…
Continue Reading Chance Encounters If, by chance, you walk through the wealthy neighborhood of Irvington in late October, you’re in for a visual treat. Old established…
Continue Reading Home Where? “…a translocation with transformation indefinitely delayed” is today’s phrase that is somewhat haunting me. It comes from a perceptive and smart piece…
Continue Reading Dust and other Particles of Consciousness Here is Wednesday’s phrase: “He is deeply allusive … and fitfully allegorical, but he seems drawn first and formost to emotional complication,…
Continue Reading Museum Pieces Today’s phrase comes from an article about the difficulties faced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but could as well describe large…
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…