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71 countries had net declines with Trump’s America leading the way in the West. This is the 12 year of the current downward trend. “Democracy’s basic tenets–including guarantees of free and fair elections, the rights of minorities, freedom of the … Continue reading →

(continued to top film critics’ lists into the 1990s) Recent movies have tended to be loud, formulaic, preadvertised (trailers usually give away all of a film’s essentials), very commercial, flawed, dumb, crass, pointless, and geared toward What Faulkner called “the … Continue reading →

Mixed-media painted wooden plaque by local artist-teacher-friend Don Pimm, which graces our front hallway. He also did a painted representation of E.E. Cummings’ “In Just springtime” which hangs in my daughter’s house, a gift from me. The Red Wheelbarrow So … Continue reading →

“For us, there is only the trying”; found object conceptual art by Richard Davies (quote from T.S. Eliot, “East Coker”, Four Quartets)

A favorite preferred image–a spoken word record album cover which hangs on my bedroom wall. (Dylan Thomas often wrote of the inner child and childhood, especially its freedoms.) Note: Quite Early One Morning LP cover by Caedmon, on my bedroom … Continue reading →

“Starting in my childhood, I believed that anything is possible and open to choice. And I still do. (You haven’t seen everything yet.) Beyond that, a good attitude is crucial in dealing with whatever change, obstacle, problems, misery, and sufferings.” … Continue reading →

Often the forgotten part of our lives is, simply, the sky–the ever-changing backdrop to our days on terra firma. Places and contexts may remain relatively the same or slow-changing, but the skyscapes and cloudscapes come and go with some regularity. … Continue reading →

The pained dream consumes itself.” (quote by W.B.Yeats, “Two Songs from a Play”)   He is not a star for you to follow. He is just a man walking away down the road, the one who took the fire with … Continue reading →

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves aware, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.”

The hijab, scissors-attack girl. A great way to get attention. Her story went international and even King Selfie commiserated with her. I remember a story I once used in one of my books called “Cancer” about a young woman lying … Continue reading →