Continue Reading Give those verbs a rest! Yesterday I tried to spell out that language does influence thought, although not in the direct, unchangeable way that anthropologists like Sapir…
Continue Reading Carnelian? Cornelian? Which shall it be? … a shimmering mass of cornelian leaves, dripping and moist with the rain. — Agnes Newton Keith, The Land Below the Wind, 1939 If you…
Continue Reading Merriam Webster to the Rescue Post-pandrial torpor, I think it’s called. That state when your brain has taken a leave of absence because the masses of Thanksgiving…
Continue Reading No Turkey to be seen I went on a turkey hunt yesterday, under a dark sky, with rain steadily falling, nature quietly preparing for the impending storm….
Continue Reading LBD – the Little Black Dress Let’s be frivolous and oblivious today and talk about fashion. Except…..wouldn’t you know it, even a little black dress hides larger…
Continue Reading A Soldier’s Journey: From Military Life to Art Academy “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” Mark Twain -…
Continue Reading Crisp Just so you see the rest of my week’s ambling, here are photographs of yesterday’s walk at the Sandy River Delta, a…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: Transparency – An LGTBQ+ Glass Art Exhibition at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma “One can resist only in terms of the identity that is under attack.” Hannah Arendt Men in Dark Times, 1968. The…
Continue Reading Shiny On Sunday I walked in Tacoma, the second biggest city and urban area in the state of Washington. It has a large…
Continue Reading Creepy We’ll get to the creepy part in a minute. First let me show you some photographs of a scene I encountered on…
