The Lines of Others

Why read great literature from the past?

Watercolors

“Watercolors have a life and a flow of their own when you brush them on the paper. You let go and see what happens.”

A short story . . .

Thrown Off Balance

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O’Connor

The Approaching Eclipse

Playing the fourth movement (Allegro Non Troppo) of Shostakovich’s 5th in high school concert band, I had no idea of the circumstances under which it had been composed – an artist threatened with suppression or persecution.

Not Wanting to Look Away – A Life of War Zone Witness and Writing

“I followed the war wherever I could reach it.”

Your Best Lent Now

It seems to me, and your own experience will bear this out, that This Instant is the impetus of Your Best Life Now and that self-help schemes produce the thinness and self-deception of a tenuous now.

Nothing More Than Alright

A short story . . .

Somewhere in the Lost World of Love

Love. Is it die-cut like the Valentine cards of grade school? Is it cliché like pop music? Is it a potion we constantly thirst for? Is it intoxication and under its influence we are not in our right minds? Is love passion? Sentimental? Carnal? Absolute? “What do any of us really know about love?”