Wishing for something better in the future builds emptiness in the present. Working for something better in the present builds something now.
Read MoreLONG PLAYING RECORD
But when everything is available all the time, each item in particular matters less and less. It’s the law of supply and demand, the dilemma of tasty food served at an already heavily laden table, the cool drink of water offered in the middle of 40 days of rain.
Read MoreTHE MINOR FALL, THE MAJOR LIFT
Alas, nothing lasts. Nothing lasts, but we try anyway. We try and we persevere and some of us wouldn’t have it any other way.
Read MorePOLITICS AND ART
Art becomes political the moment culture places meaning on what it sees or hears or reads, and politics requires some measure of creative work when it tries to synthesize civic strategies into cogent messages.
Read MoreIN THE ART UNIVERSE THERE’S SUDDENLY A NEW SUPERNOVA
A recent move by the famedMetropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is having the effect of opening opportunities that will be fabulously valuable to all of those who simply cannot expect to travel the globe just to see paintings and sculpture.
Read MoreSOMEWHERE IN NEW MEXICO THE FIRST ASTRONAUT TO MARS LEARNS ALGEBRA
Creativity takes a gutsy, tireless person to see something in the intangible spaces between us, something you can’t touch or easily characterize.
Read MoreA CHILDREN’S STORY
Childhood depends on creative sparks. The process of invention is the process of discovery, which is another way of saying that invention often yields growth.
Read MoreYOUTH OBSESSION
Fleeting youth is the thing we all want, even if we’re pleased to be finally old enough to feel a little more stable.
Read MoreCHEERING THE DEATHS OF ANONYMOUS SOLDIERS PLAYED BY EXTRAS
It’s not too far of a stretch to say that “good” behavior, with all of the flexible, fungible, subjective aspects that term connotes, has become the cultural anomaly outside of our fictions.
Read MoreBIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, MORE!
More media does not mean better media. The ubiquity of distribution and ease of endless consumption is dulling the cultural palette.
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