Continue Reading (Almost) Year-End Report As many of you know I have been involved in a project for years now that tries to raise awareness of not…
Continue Reading Dreaming, while snared, of murmurations. I have been working on a project that, once again, tries to express the feelings associated with our current predicament: longing for…
Continue Reading Writing with a Crystal Vision. Instead of a poem I am posting a short essay today, found here, in Vanity Fair of all places, a publication…
Continue Reading Reds against Blues Hard times when sadness hits. Advice comes in all forms and shapes and levels of triteness (if earnestly felt), levels of pragmatism,…
Continue Reading A Visit to the Future and the Past. I had a strange dream last night. A dear friend finally managed to introduce me to Ursula LeGuin, who was somehow still…
Continue Reading Leaves, Folded If Nari Ward, who I introduced yesterday, is a master of conceptual installations, Sam Gilliam stands out with his abstractions. I say…
Continue Reading If only… “If only I could….” must be one of the most frequently uttered sentence fragments of this constraint- and fear-ruled year. If only…
Continue Reading Doing the Heavy Lifting Who should do the heavy lifting? Preferably someone else other than yourself, it seems, when you look at how people generally are…
Continue Reading The Dream World and the Real World are the same. There I was mid- afternoon, back to my old haunts, this time Oaks Bottom. Looking one way, a fall landscape of etherial…
Continue Reading Seeking a Model You surely know those days when everything, even the most innocuous bit, takes on a dark halo, a portent, a trigger for…
