Writings - Writing In The Shade Of Trees

Parting images – A Five-Year-Old Girl at Disneyland in California, the Happiest Place on Earth & A Six-Year-Old Girl in Ukraine, in Cartoon Unicorn Decorated Pajamas – Напуття – П’ятирічна дівчинка в Діснейленді в Каліфорнії, найщасливіше місце на Землі &шестирічна дівчинка в Україні, в прикрашеній мультфільмом єдинорогом піжамі

Apr 13, 2022 | Moments of Seeing & Occasional Pieces, Thoughts & Musings On Writing, Thoughts & Notes on Current Issues, History, Church, Politics & Anything & Every Pertaining to Them All, Ukraine — Friends, the War, & Hope

A Five-Year-Old Girl at Disneyland in California, the Happiest Place on Earth & A Six-Year-Old Girl in Ukraine, in Cartoon Unicorn Decorated Pajamas П'ятирічна дівчинка в Діснейленді в Каліфорнії, найщасливіше місце на Землі і шестирічна дівчинка в Україні, в мультяшній єдиноріг прикрашеній...

A Couple of Weeks Ago, It Was a Year Since My Sister, Tania, Died.

Apr 10, 2022 | Family Non-Fiction, Moments of Seeing & Occasional Pieces

Tania, Requiescat in Pace et in Amore, Our Beloved Sister A couple of weeks ago, it was a year since my sister, Tania, died. And when Tania died, and then when the year anniversary silently journeyed into our lives, for me, and for all of us within the larger family, at neither time did our...

Alexei, One of Thousands of Others Just Like Him – Олексій, один з тисяч таких, як він

Apr 7, 2022 | Moments of Seeing & Occasional Pieces, Thoughts & Musings on Art, Thoughts & Musings On Writing, Ukraine — Friends, the War, & Hope

Alexei, one of thousands of others just like him Олексій, один з тисяч таких, як він This is Alexei from a few years back. His father took him to a fair of some sort and there were old planes and old cars. Here Alexei stands by an old car, I’m not sure what make, but the old car was...

Postcard Story – Mihrab (Prayer Niche) – 1354-55 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Apr 4, 2022 | Postcard Stories

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/449537 (In Public Domain) Fifth Sister – 11/30/20 …and, of course, the color blue was on her mind, having just finished her term paper on Islamic art and specifically on the Mihrab, the “blue” prayer niche within her own mind, sometimes focusing on...

Postcard Story – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold – Charles Demuth – 1928 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mar 30, 2022 | Postcard Stories

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488315 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of Painting taken at Met) Oldest NY Grandson – 02/25/21 …and he was puzzled when he saw the number, for five meant nothing special to him, no more than any other number…well, he did like twenty, for when...

On the Nature of Writing a Garden Journal, and the Words which Appear on the Pages

Mar 27, 2022 | Thoughts & Musings On Writing

For many years, I used to write weekly in my garden journal where I would sit outside in my garden, usually in the same place week after week, and describe the day, the weather, and the sounds all around. That ended some years ago when many other writing projects began to take precedence,...

Book Review – The Auschwitz Album & The Last Album – Two Books of Photos, One of Photos of the Selection Process of New Arrivals at Auschwitz, the Second, a Selection from Thousands of Family Photos Taken from Arrivals to the Death Camp.

Mar 24, 2022 | Books Read, Thoughts Upon Them

The Auschwitz Album, A Book Based Upon an Album Discovered by a Concentration Camp Survivor, Lili Meier – Text by Peter Hellman – Random House, New York – 1981 The Last Album, Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau – Ann Weiss – W.W. Norton & Company - New York, London - 2001 The...

Postcard Story – The Dancing Class – Edgar Degas – 1870 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mar 20, 2022 | Postcard Stories

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436141 (In Public Domain) Second Granddaughter - 07/05/21 …and as she stood before the painting, observing, studying, beholding – as her grandfather had taught her – she smiled, for he never knew that they all thought he was quite a character, one to...

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A Couple of Weeks Ago, It Was a Year Since My Sister, Tania, Died.

Alexei, One of Thousands of Others Just Like Him – Олексій, один з тисяч таких, як він

Postcard Story – Mihrab (Prayer Niche) – 1354-55 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Postcard Story – I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold – Charles Demuth – 1928 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

On the Nature of Writing a Garden Journal, and the Words which Appear on the Pages

Book Review – The Auschwitz Album & The Last Album – Two Books of Photos, One of Photos of the Selection Process of New Arrivals at Auschwitz, the Second, a Selection from Thousands of Family Photos Taken from Arrivals to the Death Camp.

Postcard Story – The Dancing Class – Edgar Degas – 1870 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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