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RETIREMENT TIME OPENS DOOR FOR THINGS AND STUFF

Everyone’s’ retirement time is unique, no one matches any other. For some it’s a big party at work with a grand send-off, followed by more parties to celebrate that new freedom. There’s that giant card where everyone you worked over the decades signs with the glee of a high school year book. Or maybe you […]

EMPTY HANDS IN THE GETTY

The empty hands in the Getty Museum, or Getty Center, caught my eye more than the hands with cigarettes. Can’t you see a coffin nail, maybe a Phillip Morris Commander, in this guy’s hand, tipping ashes into the skull? The artist sees the whole picture and paints it; visitors see modern interpretations. I see a […]

MATERIAL WORLD, AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT

Mashing two words together to make ‘material world’ brings up a long list of ongoing problems, some more distressing than others. Scientific American shares this story from 2020: Human-Made Stuff Now Outweighs All Life on Earth Artificial objects have gone from just 3 percent of the world’s biomass in 1900 to on par with […]

FINE WHINE FROM CHEKHOV’S DOG

“Why are we worn out? “Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? “Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle […]

PICTURE GREATER WITH CHARLIE SANDBO AT TIGARD ART WEEKEND 2023

Picture Greater challenges us with: How did you get that picture. I’ve always wondered how skilled photographers did it. Now I know. They do it with patience and vision. The end result is falling in love with an image. Charlie Sandbo is matchmaker between you and a print you need, but didn’t know. Now you […]

GIFT GIVING? HOLD MY BEER SIGN

Gift giving is such a mixed bag of emotions. From the funny: “Oh thank you, thank you, thank you, this is just what I wanted.” To the sad: “I didn’t know what to give you, so…” For reference, no one wants a beer sign after college, at least that’s the common adult thing. Beer sign […]

BEGIN AGAIN TO AVOID PERMANENT QUITTER ATTITUDE

Failure awaits those who forget to begin again. It’s one thing to walk away from mistakes, and only one way to make it better. You need to look at what happened, and begin again. Make a new mistake, learn from the process and fail better. I can’t recommend it as an every day thing like […]

ART WORLD DEFAULTS TO TRUTH IN THE ORSAY

Did the art world need a change in 1849? Who knows, I was just trying to keep up on a march through Paris in 2019. Ah, Paris. Just saying the name brings it all back: the museums, memorials, and churches; the neighborhoods, the Metro, and Versailles. Nothing hit harder than the painting in the top […]

SANDWICH GENERATION GRANDY MAKES THE RIGHT CALL

I am in a storage space in my house throwing away rings of gauze and squirt bottles of skin care and wound cleaner. It’s a throwback moment with Grandy, my mother in law who passed two years ago. If I had PTSD I would have been thrown back. Instead it was a sweet memory. But […]

RETIREMENT TIME OPENS DOOR FOR THINGS AND STUFF

EMPTY HANDS IN THE GETTY

MATERIAL WORLD, AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT

TAKING TURNS: YOUR TURN, THEN MINE? MAYBE

FINE WHINE FROM CHEKHOV’S DOG

PICTURE GREATER WITH CHARLIE SANDBO AT TIGARD ART WEEKEND 2023

GIFT GIVING? HOLD MY BEER SIGN

BEGIN AGAIN TO AVOID PERMANENT QUITTER ATTITUDE

ART WORLD DEFAULTS TO TRUTH IN THE ORSAY

SANDWICH GENERATION GRANDY MAKES THE RIGHT CALL

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