https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489258 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of painting taken at Met) Oldest Grandson – 02/26/21 ...and when he saw the lighthouse, he stopped to view it to contemplate its meaning…and he thought, quietly without hurrying, for to him…yes, that was...
A Few Days Ago, I Took My Mail-in Ballot to the Post Office A few days ago, I took my mail-in ballot to my local post office, more than a week ahead of the actual deadline to vote by mail. As I walked out of the post office after carefully depositing my mail-in ballot in the inside mail slot – a...
(In Public Domain) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/39901 Oldest Sister - 07/16/21 Night-Shining White …and as she studied the horse, Or better, wondered over it, For, yes, it was a horse, The form and features and movements were all there, But something else, she was sure, was...
Writing In the Shade of Trees, Where it all Began *** On a trip to England in 2010, I began to research, and also sought to see and experience, certain aspects of my mom and her family’s life in London before and during WWII. During my time in London that year, I was staying in Brentford in...
Art, Art, Everywhere I have a friend with multiple degrees in art. Years ago, as I remember, he told me his theoretical and working definition of art is that it must be composed of line drawing – be that the entire composition, or a major part of the work, or just some portion with line...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488978 Autumn Rhythm Fifth sister – 10/21/20 …and he dragged her to the museum, literally, forgetting it seemed that he had promised her the best pastrami in the Village…they were nowhere near the Village…even she knew that…just in from LA…but this...
The Unbroken Coffee Cup – Postscript to Broken Coffee Cup Series This posting is a postscript to the Broken Coffee Cup Series. And here, the featured photo is the green-rimmed coffee cup, unbroken, intact, and whole, the twin of the broken blue cup, both given to me as gifts at the same time...
The Broken Coffee Cup - Part 3 – Politics, Idolatry, Pandemic, Second Great Commandment, Theology Mantras. As I began to prepare to compose and write this last part of the Broken Coffee Cup series - now on the spiritually damaging and distorting effects upon the congregation of the deepening and...