Art: Real or Not Real? * In a 100-day study of English poet, W.H. Auden, I have read many things about what art is and what art is not- * The world of art is not real and artists are creative illusionists. * Art analyzes life rather than identifies with it. * Art reflects the [...]
Homage to comedy genius - How often do you find yourself laughing till you cry, or until your stomach aches? In my own case it is currently once a week at noon every Tuesday here in England, when the digital radio station ‘BBC Radio 4 extra’ replays a half hour of priceless British humour in the [...]
Film aficionados have long debated the best year for American movies, and the two years most often promoted are 1939 and 1941. Both have a valid and impressive claim to the title. From each of those stellar years, we have been bequeathed over 75 films that justifiably receive high marks in every reliable film guide [...]
Never could I have imagined that one day I would have chronic pain so bad that I would have to survive on pain medication. Not in a million years would I have believed that my physical lifestyle would alter so drastically. I loved to dance. I took ballet and modern dance classes. I was also an [...]
If there is one thing that really gets to me, it’s not being able to get to the last remaining delicious scrapings of jam, peanut butter, or Vegemite out of the jar it’s sold in. When I was a kid, companies used to offer their products in highly sensible glass containers like tumblers with a [...]
What do you do when one of your beloved pieces of art glass or pottery gets broken? It breaks your heart to have to throw it away, but what else can you do with it? Don’t throw it away!! Plant it in your garden. They make wonderful accent pieces. And you can continue to enjoy [...]
As An artist and a writer, I study all the time the masters in those fields, those who struggled and won. Why? Because I am still struggling and need their tools to win. I recently read Charles Webster Hawthorne on Painting, collected by Mrs. Charles. W. Hawthorne with an Introduction by Edwin Dickinson, an Appreciation [...]
And they sing. With voices the color of buttercups and vanilla. Lifted and soaring, low and urgent. Telling a story, telling every story, telling a story I’ve never heard. Spinning deftly into my soul.
I get increasingly annoyed these days when I’m perusing the programme listings for any given television channel, sifting through the dross for something worth watching, at the amount of completely inaccurate information on offer. I’m sorry, but describing a grim war story, movie or play with the words ‘a hilarious account of’, or perhaps calling [...]
The two tractors pulled up side by side, two elderly farmers discussing the harvest, and the effect of the weather on the grapes. Their trailers, one full, one empty, who’s grapes were already being crushed and filtered finished their conversation and departed on their John Deer tractors.
