By Donald Kolberg A recipe for excuses that you can serve any time of year: Difficulty: Easy Prep Time: Your whole Life Serving Size: Every time you do art Ingredients One large project or a small series of projects (even one small project can be substituted) a squeeze of time a reduced desire to succeed…
Cuba in Miniature
By Keith Skinner Perhaps Cuba’s most memorable patriot and National Hero, José Martí was born in Havana in 1853 and spent twenty-four years in exile. The José Martí Memorial that dominates Plaza de la Revolución in Havana’s Vedado district, aside from being the tallest structure in the city, has a story as long and complicated as Cuba itself. As…
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Nathaniel Smith: Black Pioneer of the Mendocino Coast
People are often surprised to learn that an African American was one of the first non-indiginious settlers on the Mendocino Coast. While details are often contested, it’s widely agreed that Nathaniel Smith settled on a coastal bluff roughly six miles south of the Navarro River and just north of present day Elk sometime between 1851 and 1854. Other than a…
Sight, Unseen: Color Photographs 1940 to 1960
By Jo Mazelis Because these photographs are both “found” and ‘anonymous,” and furthermore, because they date from a time when the “art” photograph was almost invariably in black and white, it is easy for the viewer to assume a more “innocent” process at work in the mind of their creator. In other words, there is…
Why I'll Likely Self-Publish My Novel
I’ve been struggling to find a literary agent for one of my two fiction novels for more than a year now. I’ve pitched the story at conferences and via email, and received a steady trickle of rejections. Mostly formulaic responses, some nicer than others, one or two with encouraging words, but all the same rejection…
.. pickles ..
needing refreshment in oswestry, later rather than sooner, crept up the chalk painted staircase, seems to work well, in this case. i note the distressed nature of the furniture. this place. having regular coffee, a fruit scone will certainly do, i listen to the server, who clasping the china teapot, tells us…
. failing .
feel you are failure, look at what you have done. look to the seeds, the growth, read desiderata and know we are all mostly much the same. sbm.
.. the path ..
small path, a right of way, for me, to go down the back lane. it is all forget me nots, i wrote of it before. i had bought 1000 seeds, black and tiny, from ebay, wondered who counted them. he is a farmer, will strim them soon, so i gently pulled a…
Meet The CitiZens ~ Adventure In Zenalnd
Read —> Through The Looking Glass – Adventure In Zenland ‘So What’s Next?’ I thought as I saw the caterpillar on the tree vanished into the smoke he puffed. ‘Does this mean I have more surprises today?’ Even before I concluded my thoughts, I heard an uncanny voice near the tree. ‘Oh my furry whiskers I’m…
Through The Looking Glass - Adventure In Zenland
Read –> Adventure In Zenland I fell into the black hole… I was filled with so much of wonder that I did not realize that I was falling into space beneath me. Before even I knew, I fell down with a thump. My head was spinning and I could vaguely see someone was standing in…
Adventure In Zenland
I can barely move my feet. It’s been such a long day that I can’t wait to get back home and hop onto the bed. All I wish is to have a holiday and some adventure to rejuvenate myself. After the busy traffic hours, I reached home only to see there was no power and…