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An Informal Book Review: I Only Wanted to Live – The Struggle of a Boy to Survive the Holocaust – Arie Tamir – eBookPro Publishing – 2019
I Only Wanted to Live I have read many books on the Holocaust, but this book is unique and important in many ways. Written a few years ago entirely by the author, now in his eighties, the book...
Clouds High in the Sky Glowing in the Light of the Lowering Sun Beyond the Tip of the Wing of the Jet and the Reach of My Fingers, but Not My Soul – A Musing on Art
At times, beauty comes upon us suddenly and without fanfare or warning, and in the moment when beauty is revealed, it is only eyes open and prepared, by whatever means, that will behold or even just...
The Red Glazed Ashtray I Made in Kindergarten With the Kindness of Mrs. Goodwin, the Teacher of the Good Name at Sylmar Elementary School – Now Old & Broken But Treasured
The Red Glazed Ashtray I Made in Kindergarten With the Kindness of Mrs. Goodwin One treasure on the two-drawer chest in the middle, more or less, of my study, is the red glazed ashtray, or what...
Postcard Story – Under the Wave Off Kanagawa, Also Known As the Great Wave, From The Series Thirty-Six Views Of Mount Fuji – Katsushika Hokusai – 1830-32 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/45434 Youngest Daughter – 12/17/20 …ah, she has seen this before, not the painting itself…oh, not a painting, but a woodblock print, and…well, this is...
A Tale of Two Signs, of Two Minds and Hearts, of Two Paths & Perhaps a Cautionary Tale
A Tale of Two Signs, of Two Minds and Hearts, of Two Paths & Perhaps a Cautionary Tale *** One afternoon some months ago, I took my weekly extended walk, a path of about three and half miles,...
Postcard Story – View of Marly-Le-Roi from Couer-Volant – Alfred Sisley – 1876 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(In Public Domain) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437682 Second Grandson – 06/28/21 …and the memories of childhood, many soft impressions at best, but all recording somehow our...
In Mexico City, We Bought Handmade Flowers, One the Color of the Blue and Another of the Yellow of the Ukrainian Flag, and a Third One of Pink, Because it was Pretty, from the Young Woman of the Gentle Smile
In Mexico City, We Bought Handmade Flowers, One the Color of the Blue and Another of the Yellow of the Ukrainian Flag, and a Third One of Pink, Because it was Pretty, from the Young Woman of the...
Postcard Stories – La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin – Vincent van Gogh – 1889 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437984 (In Public Domain) Oldest Sister – 06/30/14 … and as the older woman rocked the cradle – yes, her granddaughter, but also now by family law and...
Letter to My New Pastor at Word of Life Church, St. Joseph, MO on the Tuesday, May 24, 2022, Shooting at a School in a Small Town in Texas
Scripture: Mark 10:13-16 Thursday, May 26, 2022 Dear Pastor Xxxxx, As your recent words on Facebook expressed, I also share an almost stupefying despair and torment and omnidirectional anger...
Postcard Story – Shoes – Vincent van Gogh – 1888 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436533 (In Public Domain) Fourth Sister – 10/04/21 …and taking off her old garden working shoes was not always so difficult, the bending down while...