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Human Being  Human being - walking in doubt from childhood on: walking a ledge of slippery stone in the world's woods d...

"Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence." ( Emily Carr, 1871-1945)   In this sec...

Although I know if I spent some more time, I could figure out how to post the "My Three Sons" clip below the clip of my painting, ...

What a revelation it is to see clips from television programs from the 1960s about families, footage I hadn't seen since I was a child. ...

I am not aware of having Finnish ancestors but had heard about a Finnish word "sisu," which I understood to mean ...

The heart forgives when it accepts and acknowledges conflict without blame.  (From VOICES OF THE HEART, by Ed Young)

To listen to Richard Brautigan read from IN WATERMELON SUGAR, click here .  Hmmm .... that doesn't work. If still intere...

In early spring of 1971, on a particularly peaceful day, a friend brought me to Ano Nuevo State Reserve , a beach at the end...

Try as I might, I was unable to adjust the color of the sky to anything near Payne's Gray. The full moon is rising, hidd...

Here I combined images from a solo road trip during which I visited my parents and sister in Northern California in the...

Looking at this painting today, I noticed that I had painted X = X as part of the spray from the breaking wave and rem...

Return (The Turning Point) is the 24th hexagram in the I Ching or Book of Changes.  In the late 1960s, learning that Bo...

My mother's mother's female ancestors have been traced as far back as 1790 in Drumhecknagh, Kilmore Parish, Cou...

TRUE COLORS (Cindy Lauper) You with the sad eyes don't be discouraged oh I realize it's hard to take courag...

In 1979, Arlo Guthrie recorded an album he called "Outlasting the Blues." On that album was "Sailing Dow...

Happy Valentine's Day!

Now I am beginning to remember that, over and over again, the ocean scene I was painting in the Calendar Series was fro...

Sometime after giving this painting its title, I learned that the 14th century German mystic, Meister Eckhart, had said...

Today it occurred to me again that what I had been trying to do by painting the "calendars" was to reclaim, a...