This drawing is just one of those ideas—AGAIN!—that happens spontaneously while doing something else requiring little concentration—in this case, journaling—allowing enough mental space for ideas like this to congeal into an image quite… Continue reading
“Depression is melancholy minus its charms” —Susan Sontag I wake up, that’s good. I can get out of bed, also good. The room is warm and quiet, I can drink my coffee and… Continue reading
“Left school with a first class pass, Started work but as second class. School taught one and one is two. But right now, that answer just ain’t true.” Do you remember that bitter… Continue reading
The eye of outward sense is as the palm of a hand, The whole of the object is not grasped in the palm. —Rumi This image is a variation on the old story… Continue reading
“A flambé of wild-caught Invisible Hand on a bed of wild greens with an agrodolce of cash…” Invisible hand is a metaphor of the 18th century English economist Adam Smith for the godlike—supra-human—correction… Continue reading
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Usually when I get a drawing idea, I write it down, a graph or… Continue reading
The contest used to be on only for a couple of months, every couple of years, with the press claiming the role of referee. Now, it’s 24/7/52 on both the “conservative” talk shows… Continue reading
If you are as old as I am you remember when you bought a tool and you used it as long as you could. Of course new tools became available and you considered… Continue reading
A quarter of a millennium ago, the invisible hand of the free marketplace was thought to be an antidote to the tyranny of powerful monarchies and entrenched religions. Money would rule wisely, the… Continue reading
Four rings break the silence the white noise machine provides, then my whinny voice speaks, “You’ve reached my answering machine; please leave a message,” finally two beeps and silence again. It all takes… Continue reading
