Continue Reading Portraits, Doubled To end this week devoted to portraits I will tell two stories, one of a clever way to create indirect portraits, the…
Continue Reading The Beauty of Age I have visibly aged by about 100 years in the last month, through fear, worry, helplessness. No wonder then, that a…
Continue Reading Licentious Lines One of the definition of licentious is disregarding accepted rules or conventions, especially in grammar or literary style. The artist I am…
Continue Reading Hope for the Future In the dark times/Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing/About the dark times. –Bertholt Brecht, Motto to…
Continue Reading Verso If there is one positive thing I can think of that helps us through these weeks of anguish, it is the emotional…
Continue Reading The Grace of the World The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least…
Continue Reading Time Warp “A sense of purpose returned to him: he must wind his watch. He pulled it out. It had stopped. Till that moment,…
Continue Reading Purpose “Hat man sein warum des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie” “If we have our own why in life,…
Continue Reading All Human Beings Today the text is the music and the music is the text. The words of the 1948 UN Human Rights Declaration, in…
Continue Reading Coping Strategies “The world is violent and mercurial–it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love–love for each other and…
