Continue Reading Songs from the Congo Black Artists of Oregon/Africa Fashion at Portland Art Museum ““I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the…
Continue Reading Guessing Game One of the great joys of parenting comes about when you realize your children actually share your interests, delight in the same…
Continue Reading Caspar David Friedrich x 2. Last night I had a horrid dream, likely tied to the day’s reading and writing about Caspar David Friedrich. Emotionally depleted from…
Continue Reading Pulling Strings. What would you say are the most important tools harnessed by early mankind? Fire? The Wheel? Agriculture? Does string even come to…
Continue Reading Down // Up Climb with me over the fallen trees in my immediate neighborhood, the park where I walk every day. Sink your boots with…
Continue Reading After the Storm My original plan for today had been to show photo documentation of the damage to my immediate surrounds, wrecked by the ice…
Continue Reading Not all is doom and gloom. As an antidote to my habitually bleak news these days, I thought I’d collect and present what brought me fun, knowledge and/or…
Continue Reading Protecting the Young Let’s treat ourselves with something amusing, if slightly moralistic, at the end of this week: a short animated film about the strenuous…
Continue Reading In(ter)dependence Lots of thoughts about dependency lately. Triggered by general sorrow about the ongoing wars, or specific preoccupation with weather-related problems, never mind…
Continue Reading Winter Ponder Land When you are iced in for pretty much a full week, as we were last week, there is a lot of time…
