Can Major Tech Companies Provide Vital Humanitarian Social Services?

Big tech companies should be among the first respondents to help save lives touched by disaster. Tune in to any … More

Anxiety, My New Friend

I went to a class called Taming Anxiety to deal with the residual feelings of being threatened, anxious, withdrawn. Fear … More

Watchful Patience

The messages of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela remain relevant even in a world where ideological confrontations … More

“This Land Is Our Land”

We all have a part to play in how our world operates. The interconnectivity of our lives can no longer … More

The Uses of Visual Images as Envisioned by Douglass: The Necessity of Art (Part VII)

  Art is a visionary’s tool (among others). For a long time artists have used the medium of photography to … More

Innovation Engine and the Permanent Witness: The Necessity of Art (Part VI)

  Did art start with illuminated manuscripts or Goya’s political satire? Was it in the eyes, as the ancient Sumerians … More

Inner Outsider: The Necessity of Art (Part V)

  But what of imagination? When the completion of a thing, a work, a compulsion burned out in form from … More

Enlightened Objects: The Necessity of Art (Part IV)

  Lavish or sumptuous, grotesque or fearsome, our creations exist side by side with all else. Art defies norms and … More

Staying Alive: The Necessity of Art (Part III)

  Art is often viewed in commercial societies (those engaged in gathering, hoarding and consuming resources) such as ours as … More

Historical Repetitions (and Other Forms of Seeing for Consideration): a

  I refuse to live in fear. I’m told about the many frightening things ahead for us because of Trump’s … More