A picture is worth a thousand words. Is it fair to say a sentence is worth a thousand pictures? A paragraph? Surely a story is worth a thousand pictures. If you are a visual person like me, you see a movie in your head. At 60 frames per second, and me being a slow reader, […]
I really like to write. I’m comfortable writing about myself, my feelings, my inspirations, my goals, my, my, my… I would love to be able to write fiction. A nice story. The kind of story I would like to read, a story I could get lost in. I wasn’t feeling too good about this the […]
Ever since I had the good fortune to visit the The Identity Shift Project site built by Jessica Safran a fellow NYU alum and Julie Hassett Sutton, fine art photographer, everything I read seems to be about shifting identity. When you think about it, life is about shifting identity. One forms his or her identity […]
Today’s experiment: Today, it seems I’m working backwards. I started, as I normally do, writing down some notes about my reading, hoping for insights that may clarify my own thoughts. But there are lots of things happening in real life that are interfering with my cerebral life. My wife’s aunt is gravely ill; a friend of […]
Last year, I interviewed my granddaughter, Sidra, just before her brother Will was born. Tomorrow (4-17-14) will be Will’s first birthday. I asked Sidra to chat with me again about her first year as a big sister. (See also Interview at 6 months.) Sidra (9 years old): Year one: I was so excited because I […]
Carving nature at it’s joints? Not quite. It took me 18+ days from January 1st, 2013 to get my first post out, but I have completed the past 365 days with a post every day. It’s been great discipline to keep to my schedule and has helped me to keep learning. I made some adjustments […]
Original interests I mentioned in an earlier post that I started reading The Age of Insight, The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain, by Nobel Laureate, Eric Kandel. Part One is entitled, A Psychoanalytic Psychology and Art of Unconscious Emotion. I was hoping that Kandel would discuss art in context of emotions of children and […]
Although I started my daily blog on January 19, 2013, tomorrow is New Year’s Day and, in the spirit of ‘carving nature at it’s joints’ I feel that this is the time to commemorate my first year in the blogosphere. Original mission statement Part of my mission statement was a pledge to offer my thoughts […]
Of expressionism, Wikipedia says, “Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.” [1] Writ large? There are many ways to express meaning and emotions, […]
I’m going to take a break from trying to pick a philosophy of life. If I’ve waited this long, it doesn’t really matter if I take a little longer. I suppose that I actually have one by default, but I couldn’t tell you exactly what it is. Here is a partial list of some, perhaps […]
