On view March 12 – July 3, 2017 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (http://www.moca.org) In his total of 80 paintings on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Kerry James Marshall documents the history of black life in America and brings to our attention the very known fact that black […]
Mary Oliver’s book of essays, Upstream, is open next to my laptop on my dining table, where there are a bunch of tulips in a vase and there is a newspaper in a bundle, which I have already read and I am about to toss. There is my cup of coffee sitting there, still hot, inviting me […]
Technology has always fascinated me. It is somewhat like fashion – you have to be right on your toes fast enough to keep up with it, otherwise you will not look cool if you are left behind. For example, when we look at simple objects around our house – like our telephone, fridge, television, and […]
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” ― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays I […]
The sky is changing color. It is now cloudy, and the clouds are all dark gray. All day, they have been heavy and wet and have had every intention to rain, but I guess they changed their minds at the last minute. Today is the first day of this new year, and I am sitting […]
