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sidewalks of portugal

travel, ephemeraevieMay 6, 2022azores, sidewalks, tile art, mosaic art, portugal, lisbonComment

crystal bridges and bentonville, arkansas

art world, travelevieMarch 8, 2022louise bourgeois, yayoi kusama, george segal, chihuly, norman rockwell, howard finster, beth lipman, jeffrey simmons, jen stark, frank lloyd wright, maxfield parrish, oscar bluemner, john biggers, o louis guglielmi, spruance, george ault, stuart davis, jeffrey gibson, titus kaphar, maya lin, amy sherald, kerry james marshall, james turrell, skyspace, simphiwe ndzube, rashid johnsonComment

death and art

my art, musicevieFebruary 25, 2022mark lanegan, screaming trees, washington printmakers gallery, gel monoplate printingComment

snowy renwick day

art world, ephemeraevieJanuary 28, 2022renwick museum, sylvie vandenhoucke, matthew szosz, maria bang espersen, miya ando, sharyn o'mara, david colton, fredrik nielsen, WMATA delaysComment

ok, so who is jim holt and why does he keep showing up in my life?

contemplationevieJanuary 15, 2022jim holt, existentialism, consciousnessComment

npg day

art worldevieNovember 17, 2021national portrait gallery, smithsonian american art museum, yasuo kuniyoshi, hermann dudley murphy, luigi taddei, enrico podio, charles caryl colemanComment

(my) team

hockeyevieSeptember 28, 2021ospreys hockeyComment

coincidence?

contemplation, my kidsevieAugust 20, 2021growing pains, empty nest, stomach bug, asylum seeker, us refugee policyComment

not portugal

travelevieAugust 15, 2021vermont, ticonderoga, lake george, saratoga springs, delaware water gap, bread and puppet circus, granite museum, brooklynComment

screw up

travel, contemplationevieJuly 22, 2021travelog, consciousness, neuroscience, neuroscience newsComment

turks & caicos & 23 years ago today

travel, my kidsevieJuly 20, 2021mo, turks & caicos, hibiscusComment

re: tired

contemplation, my artevieJune 24, 2021guilt, suicide, workComment

early summer evening ... not late spring

what an amazing thing to witness

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ephemeraevieMay 26, 2021thunderstorm, lightning, thunder, my oasisComment

also on the balcony

ephemera, my artevieMarch 27, 2021midnight library, matt haig, balcony, scott, art for saleComment

re re review (2020)

it’s the end! it’s the beginning!

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politics, protests, covid quarantine, contemplationevieDecember 30, 2020high fidelity, george floyd, breonna taylor, racism, leaf blowers, kids, hiking, red river gorge, smithsonian lectures, weed, libraries, david mitchell, bernadine evaristo, sarah broom, sarah galley, namwall serpell, tea obreht, dominic smith, lewis hyde, brad warner, kevin wilson, susanna clarke, blanket octopus, black lives matter, the good place, charitiesComment

redemption!

politics, ephemeraevieNovember 7, 2020samantha bee, shenandoah valley, hiking, perfect day, buzzard hillComment

"is it live ... or is it memorex?"

politicsevieNovember 1, 2020halloween, wynton marsalis, strathmore, the democracy! suite, jazz at lincon center orchestraComment

reckoning with rodin

art world, contemplationevieOctober 15, 2020rodin, daumier, degas, carriere-belleuse, koons, camille claudel, technology in artComment

as time goes by

covid quarantine, contemplationevieSeptember 17, 2020blanket octopus, daniel carroll, david mitchell, graveyards, depression, zen buddhism, zen, vegetarian, pescatarianComment

thoughts on turning 56

contemplation, my art, ephemeraevieAugust 22, 2020david mitchell, neil gaiman, aging, utopia avenue, creativity, digital artComment