I have always used art, in the same way a clothes dryer uses its filter to get the lint out. Art has been my way of purifying my soul. I have always escaped from everything which was not beautiful by looking through the beautiful pictures of my art book collection. From a very young age, […]

I just finished reading the book, Cast: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and winner of a National Humanity Medal. I don’t usually read books on history or politics, But I read this book with a lot of respect and admiration for this very highly accomplished author and this […]

This year has felt like a very long, melancholy Sunday. It has been a year in which every morning we woke up and made lemonade out of the lemons which that day had thrown our way.  This year has been the year we learned to look for happiness in hidden places, like those puzzles in the […]

The poet, Louise Gluck, is the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature. She is the first American woman to win this Nobel Prize in twenty-seven years, since Tony Morrison took the prize in 1993.  If I told you that I do not really enjoy Louise Gluck’s poetry,  I know you would say, “How dare […]

Gone to Pick FlowersWhere is Mahvash?She has gone to the garden to pick flowers.But there is a man here waiting for her!He is nervous and shy.He is pacing the room impatiently. Where is Mahvash?She has gone to the garden to pick flowers.But there is a child here waiting for her; his silky brown hair is […]