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Waiting for the Barbarians.

You have to walk without me today, since I am busy tackling the jungle of weeds that pretends to be my garden….

• Poetry
• April 16, 2025
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On this Passover.

Yesterday, Robert Reich’s Sunday Thoughts landed in my inbox. He describes the most recent evidence of the “Trump regime’s abject cruelty, viciousness,…

• History, Nature, Politics
• April 14, 2025
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1908 to 2025

The images will speak for themselves – I have run out of words for this week….

Political cartoon ca. 1908

For counter balance…

• Economics
• April 4, 2025
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This aged well…

In 1995, Umberto Eco (author of The Name of the Rose, among others) published an essay in the New York Review of…

• Graffitti, Literature, Politics
• April 2, 2025
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A World of Contrasts and Co-Mingling.

Portland Japanese Garden in March 2025.

“The potter, in his concepts, must possess such a sheer love of truth as will carry him past the dangers of revivalism…

• Art
• March 31, 2025
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The Ruckus Clause

Remember the Ruckus Clause in the Constitution – the one that says if you create a ruckus in this country while legally…

• Music, Politics
• March 28, 2025
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The Sultan’s Turban.

– In memory of my friend, Dutch-American painter Henk Pander. You are missed. –

Henk Pander Remembering Haarlem (1922) Painted a year before…

• Art, Economics, Nature
• March 26, 2025
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The Brain on Art

Confession: I “borrowed” this title from a neuroscience research study that explored the interaction between aesthetic experience and personal relevance when looking…

• Art, History
• March 24, 2025
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Stone Soup.

It looks like one of the organizations that help folks on the margins reenter social life equipped with new professional skills, is…

• Business, Politics, Social Justice
• March 21, 2025
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Finding Gifts.

Yesterday was a good, a surprisingly good day. I had gone to Sauvies Island, rather than giving in to fatigue, and found…

• Bird Photography, Nature
• March 19, 2025
• 8 Comments