Continue Reading 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…
Continue Reading 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…
Continue Reading The Ruckus Clause Remember the Ruckus Clause in the Constitution – the one that says if you create a ruckus in this country while legally…
Continue Reading 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…
Continue Reading 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…
Continue Reading Stone Soup. It looks like one of the organizations that help folks on the margins reenter social life equipped with new professional skills, is…
Continue Reading Finding Gifts. Yesterday was a good, a surprisingly good day. I had gone to Sauvies Island, rather than giving in to fatigue, and found…
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…
