Continue Reading Blind Faith Don’t call me Pollyanna. In fact, those who know me often complain about my tendency towards catastrophic thinking. But the only light…
Continue Reading Serving in War Poverty, inequality, healthcare, racism, sexism, a general hatred for those who pray or love or define themselves differently from traditional Western norms,…
Continue Reading Strong Women I can wrap my mind around the fact that men feel threatened by women being their boss, taking their jobs instead of…
Continue Reading Moral Minority Jan Mijtens Portrait of Margaretha van Raephorst with Servant (detail) Holland (c. 1650) There are people who do want to turn the clock…
Continue Reading Freundinnen Girlfriends One of the things that gets you through times like these are friends. What would we do without them? They support you, they hold you,…
Continue Reading RESIST Resist despair. Don’t yield to resignation. Do not withdraw into the safety of some privileged, private life. Now is the time to learn from 1933…
Continue Reading Model Ruler Painting by Nicolas de Largilliere, 1714/15 On this November 8, 2016, let’s explore what a model ruler looks like. I am thinking of…
Continue Reading On the Eve of the Election And now we wait. All arguments (or the absence thereof) have been offered, inspected, weighed, and, one fears, often dismissed. A wonderful painting by…
Continue Reading Hunting This week I thought I’ll match some photographs I took with paintings that celebrate the same theme. I start with hunters, since I…
Continue Reading PDX LEDs We started the week in Venice and will end it in Portland. I think Venice has nothing on us – if you…
