Art, Film, Photography
An Antidote for Optimism
For if ever you are in danger of feeling a wave of quite unreasonable cheerfulness descend, here is a simple…
The Eclipse of the Sun
This painting dominates a whole wall in the exhibit at the Neue Sachlichkeit / New Objectivity exhibit at the Neue…
The Soul of Nature: Caspar David Friedrich and Byron’s Childe Harold
A cold, wet February day - perfect backdrop for a journey into Romanticism—off on the M4 bus to the Met…
In Love with London Fog
I kept coming across paintings of London by Yoshio Markino - gauzy portraits of a mysteriously colorful, old-world city often…
Locked Out
Most of us have done it at some point or another - accidentally locked ourselves out of the house. Raymond…
On the Road
"The pleasure [of motoring] is seeing Nature as I could in no other way see it; my car having ‘tops',…
September Round-Up
We've been lucky with the weather in NYC this September. Many bright, warm days The aftermath of the powerful hurricane…
Harvest Moons
The 2024 harvest moon is September 17th. First a poem courtesy of the Daily Poem at The Paris Review -…
Life Itself
One thing leads to another. How do you get from the Daily Poem in the Paris Review to a re-read…
The Hard Way
I received a book in the mail this week. Nothing unusual about that even though I do try to buy…