One part of growing up poor in an urban environment, from my experience in New York City, is that…
Acts of Kindness: Damon’s List
A cooking stove Fuel Food And, a generator would be nice, too
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…
Prolonged Gaze: Homeless Homes (A Photo Essay)
Historical Repetitions: (Considering the Things I’ve Not Seen But That Have Happened Before) c
There’s a lot of unhappiness even among the wealthy. It seems that money cannot buy everything, and what it…
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…
Historical Repetitions (Considering Past Forms): b
This painful truth has always been true and has also always been ignored. In History and fiction, the mythical truth/fabled…
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…
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…
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…
Karma Compass 