Continue Reading Pig in a Poke The idiom “Pig in a Poke” refers to a person making a purchase sight unseen and getting something inferior to expectations. It’s…
Continue Reading Field Trip How much beauty can you compress into a single day? Inordinate amounts, it turns out. It helps, of course, if you live in…
Continue Reading Resistance – Maybe Later? Igor Levit, a gifted pianist of Russian Jewish descent who lives, works and engages politically in Germany made me half laugh half…
Continue Reading Registered yet? Given the marathon of two in-depth reviews last week I think I’ve used up (almost) all my words for October… let’s just…
Continue Reading Die Plage (The Plague) Harley Gaber at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education In memory of Alice Meyer (z”l) who fought the rising dark forces to the end. Tiresias:” You mock my blindness? Let me tell…
Continue Reading Wooden Splendor Walk with me. It’ll transport you into a world of wonder, visions of fairy tales where gnomes and goblins, witches and wolves…
Continue Reading Possible Worlds Jun Kaneko at Portland Japanese Garden “The Japanese garden is not an enigma. Instead, it is more like an intricate and beautiful specimen of origami whose secrets cannot be readily…
Continue Reading We Must Risk Delight. Two weeks ago I spent an afternoon at a gray, empty beach. Associations to the metaphoric bleakness of the world at large…
Continue Reading The Great Escape I went down a dusty side road to take a last walk on the dike before hunting season begins and the area…
Continue Reading Don’t be a Sucker Let me explain why I chose photographs of glorious sunflowers as an antidote to today’s musings about Fascism 101. The term fascism…
