“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
You Can Listen Here I have been thinking a great deal about how much time I have left. For well over a year, no, longer, this has been a musical undercurrent to most of my thoughts, a faint melody. Sometimes, the tune vanishes completely — on sunny days with the dogs running alongside when I can reach a full stride over even ground, or when I smoothly hoist a big rock and carry it […]
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You Can Listen Here All great painters do this, I think, but right now I am in love with O’Keefe who I hear in my imagination telling me, “Here is one more way to see.” For her, form and color are everything. Not the thing itself as denoted by name – mesa, cottonwood, stars, clouds, courtyard, apple, plain, flower – but the solidity, shape, arrangement and hues of what she watches and then paints. […]
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You Can Listen Here It took one day. On Friday morning we maneuvered out of Santa Fe and north toward Abiquiu, the site of Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch . We found our way through winding and narrow streets and into a flow of commuter traffic; I remained focused on driving. Moving faster now, other cars left us. The windshield emptied of distractions. We came over a rise, and immediately, in one moment, the desert light undid all its […]
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You Can Listen Here The twin towers of The Basilica of St. Francis are bounded by parks where, in this early spring, the cherry and cottonwood trees have begun to blossom. To the west, just behind the Church, sculptures of the Stations of the Cross form a circle in a small, pleasant, shaded oval. A garden wall separates it from the street. To enter, one must seek out the gate. This is where a […]
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