• Entropy and Community – The Beautiful Paradox

    Why is it that things tend to fall apart, but people tend to come together? Entropy. Who’s not thought of it as an enemy from time to time? The nature of things, according to physics and experience too, is to tend toward disorder. You think you’ve got it set, and it falls apart. The library…

  • Is April the Cruelest Month?

    I’m conjuring all the weightless floating facts of one memorable April past and beckoning them to to land for a moment in a coherent thought. Yes, like T.S. Eliot did in 1922, with his poem that begins with the burial of the dead, Waste Land, I am thinking April is the cruelest month. April, I was walking up a…

  • Why I Don’t Like Pink

    Certain colors mean a lot to me. Like the special blue gray that was the color of mother’s eyes, that is a good one. But I don’t like pink. It’s all because of a strange episode involving a snapping turtle. Where I grew up in the foothills of the Catskill mountains, the ponds were filled…

  • Dreams, Heart or Mind?

    Dreams, are they in our heart? Are they in our mind? Someone offered to make my dreams come true today. Granted, it was an advertising pitch, but still. Most of my dreams fall into the category of nightmares and so I’m not going to say that they are in my heart. I’d like to think…

  • No Apologies for Art

    I never apologize for anything I create. Do you? Products of the creative mind may offend, but my advice: never apologize. If I’ve created something then it came from somewhere. It came from me. Who can understand what lies inside of us? And if we cannot understand it, we are lucky at least to have…