Continue Reading Seeking Warmth. “It is the fundamental task of art to fight against alienation – to go to bat for authentic hearing, seeing, feeling, thinking…
Continue Reading Hope and Ashes Would you like to walk with me, or, as the case may be, drive from Oregon’s West across the mountain passes to…
Continue Reading Intermission I am taking a few days off. I will leave you with this from Rebecca Solnit. Going to pay a bit of attention…
Continue Reading And another one in the interesting people department…. It is March, spring is around the corner and nature is slowly waking up. Dainty snowdrops do their ballerina imitation. Croci clusters shine…
Continue Reading This, That, and the Other Thing. I know, it’s Friday. Week was long and hard for many. You need some things to smile about, and I will comply…
Continue Reading WHAT WAR IS WHAT WAR IS Maybe someday they’ll decide to write a textbookonly we won’t be invited to contribute because others always know better what war…
Continue Reading Moloch Some persistent bug had me under the weather last week. Consequently I watched even more movies than usual, with shows divided between…
Continue Reading Just Playin’ Around. Exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU “Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human…
Continue Reading The Beauty of Ruins Many years back I was part of a group of artists invited to spend a full day at the Blue Heron Paper…
Continue Reading Of Paroxysms and Purges. Why despair over our descent into a failed democracy, when you can worry about the odds of being hit by an asteroid…
