August 28, 2010
The art web site is now live!
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August 22, 2010
I've posted my latest philosophy newsletter on The Art of
Living: Stoicism and Epictetus.
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August 21, 2010
I forgot to mention before that some of my art will be
displayed in City Hall for a month starting at the end of
October. I look forward to the exposure. The art web site is
almost ready to go live. The designer is making some
requested changes.
I read an interesting book by Epictetus called The Art of Living
(the inspiration for the name of one of the recent paintings). I
am following up by reading a book on Stoicism, but it is VERY
dry and technical. I don't know if I am going to be able to
finish it. I gathered enough about the philosophy from
Epictetus to be able to write about it, though. It'll be the
subject of my next philosophy newsletter.
I'm looking forward to a visit by a friend of D's (well, my friend
too) who lives in St. Croix (how lucky is that?) on September
1st. Some more friends are going to visit this Fall, once the
weather cools off and the tourons (tourist morons) leave.
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August 8, 2010
I've posted issue 13 of my art newsletter. I've also posted a
newsletter "On the Shortness of Life", based on writings from
the philosopher Seneca.
I am working on another painting, but I am not happy with it
yet. I have learned I can come back to something over and
over. It took about 3 tries to get "Steel Wheels" to a point
where I liked it enough to walk away.
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July 30, 2010
I've added some photos to my beach page.
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July 29, 2010
* I've added a discussion on near-death experiences to the
"On My Mind" section.
* I've redone and updated my page on Old Barns and
Buildings. I will be working on adding beach photos in the next
day or two.
* Going to play putt putt for the first time in many years today.
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July 18, 2010
Ghost?
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A new poem:
Grinder
My mind's at it again,
won't let me sleep. It's on that train. The locomotive to the
land of the agony dwellers.
There is a sawing on the roof in the back of my mind,
my head is grinding like sand under the weight of a hammer
and the lever to the machine doesn't have an “off” position.
All it takes is one word, one phrase, one beat of the drum to
send me spinning into nowhere. At least nowhere pleasant.
So, how do you do this, make me shrivel like a slug under the
flurry of salt?
How do you take the last rise from me? How do you make me
fall under the weight of my own consciousness? Because I let
you. I let you seep into me like poison. Your vapors, the elixir
for the self-righteous. Always the devouring. Never just a bite.
Time does not bring me respite, I can only hope for the
forgetting, and words of assurance in the multitude to soothe
my teeming brain.
If only I could harness these words, these thoughts, these
schemes, I could erect monuments to honor the inventors of
time. I could transcend the metaphysical, develop mental
concrete. But then what would I do? I might be happy, I
might not wait for the other shoe to...come crashing through
the ceiling.
For now, it is quiet. For now, the forgetting has arrived. For
now, I will savor the look, the life. Until next time...
2010
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I've added some pictures from a June hike to Looking Glass
and Hooker Falls at Dupont State Forest, NC.
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Myrtle Beach at Sunrise, July 2010
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Huntsville, AL,
circa 1975
circa 1975
Art, photography,
poetry, etc.
poetry, etc.
