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On the Surface

March 29th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Images, Uncategorized

Whether it is a patina born of weather and age or the result of intentional scarring, scumbling, scratching, and dragging by the painter’s brush, etcher’s scribe or limner’s silver rod, all we ever see, with our unassisted eyes, is the surface. It is the gift and curse that reveals itself fully only to those prepared [...]

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The Respectable Suit

March 22nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Images, Uncategorized

 

The function of the suit or uniform is to restrain the wearer’s behavior, particularly that which is exuberant and spontaneous. Likewise, it is designed to make the wearer appear respectable. Business people and professionals wear suits—bankers, lawyers, stockbrokers and criminal defendants.  
When a person is appropriately attired, they may order mass murder in the name of [...]

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The Dust Bowl Symphony

March 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

Neither a borrower nor lender be;

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Shakespeare (Hamlet)
I recently received an invitation to attend a meeting called by the Arts Council of Greater Lansing. The stated intent was to discuss ways to avoid the funding cuts to arts programs proposed by the State of [...]

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4th Quarter Madness

March 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Images, Uncategorized

 

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Educated Fools

February 23rd, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

Her name was Persis which she said meant a Gift of God. She was my great-grandmother, but I always called her grandma. Before I was born she had already raised my grandmother, and my mother. She had lost children in the influenza epidemic of 1918, lived through two world wars, the Great Depression and two husbands. One had drowned [...]

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