Anita Reynolds (Featured Artist)
I love Anita Reynolds’ artwork and its deep connection to the place in which she lives.
Polly Castor
The Choice (Book Review With Quotes)
This is the best book I’ve ever read by a holocaust survivor. The lessons she learned were clearly explained and profoundly applicable to today, not only for those that have been through trauma, but for all of us.
Water, Snow, & Air: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (New Conceptual Painting)
Can we just embrace nature already, instead of fight against it out of human insecurity or hubris?
What You Can Do About the Biggest Security Breach
Without a legal baseline– for both parties– we are in for serious trouble as a nation and world.
Acceptance (Poem by Kerry Hardie)
I don’t know how else to explain the calm of this grey wetness with hardly a glimmer of light or life, only my car tyres swishing the lying water…
Bits and Clips January 2025
I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, inspires, supports, educates, or motivates you.
Getting Through (New Large Painting in Ink and Pastel)
this painting shows that we can flow on regardless of the ominous obstructions in the way. Also, if we can slow down enough to actually look closely at those obdurate impositions, they a can be interesting in themselves. But regardless, you can keep moving ahead, uninhibited, right on past.
Eggs Poached in Buttery Tomatoes (Recipe)
We love my Chachouka (also known as Shashuka), but it is labor intensive, and somewhat oily and heavy feeling. This is a riff on that. Still yummy, this is lighter, not spicy, and so simple it can be done with much less time and effort. Also it is inexpensive and nurturing– great for any meal … Read more
Come to a Zoom I’m Giving Today Explaining Abstract Art
I’m always interested in helping people understand and value abstraction.
Cold Comfort Farm (Book Review)
I’m not usually one for satire or parody, but this book was surprisingly entertaining, poking humorously at Jane Austin, the Brontes, and Thomas Hardy.
Thoughts about Truth (A Few Short Quotes by Mary Baker Eddy)
I think this is what we need right now.
Imagination is a Noble Faculty (Quote by Ada Lovelace)
It conceives & brings into mental presences that which is far away, or invisible, or which in short does not exist within our physical & conscious cognizance. Hence is it especially the religious faculty; the ground-work of Faith. It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable (at least should do so); it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.
I’m a Vehicle (New Poem by Polly Castor)
I feel like a vehicle waiting in the driveway sure that I’ll eventually be driven somewhere.
Our New Rug Came and is Installed
my home is warmed up with memories of our Morocco trip as we gallivant into the New Year.
Vaster Wilds (Book Review)
I do NOT recommend this intense book. Skip it and find something less so excruciating.