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Depression Glass
Letting Go
By: - Aug 17th, 2016Buy low and sell high I thought decades ago. Planned to make a fortune on depression glass. Bought cheap at Revere Flea Market. We used some but not all of it every day.
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Journey
Here to Beyond
By: - Aug 16th, 2016The journey of an artist is not a straight line. Guided by an inner compass the creative path twists and turns. Initial plans morph and change as the work follows its own momentum.
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The Walk To The Paradise Garden
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On the Beach
Making Waves
By: - Aug 10th, 2016Bracing against a ferocious Nor' easter. Elders closing ranks and holding fast resisting crashing waves.
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Bald Eagle
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Farm Stand
Not the Same
By: - Aug 06th, 2016Now early August we grilled the first sweet corn of the season from the local farm stand. But something wasn't right.
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Swamp Talk
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King Kong
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Floral Oracle
Plucking Petals
By: - Aug 02nd, 2016The quandry of youthful romance and its floral oracle.
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Pratfalls
Mistakes as Art
By: - Aug 02nd, 2016Our cousin Edward was a strange kid. He would trust his fingers a if to poke our eyes. Then stop short and with a derange laugh exclaim "It slipped." When Pip and I phone or echange e mails we often use "It Slipped." The phrase evokes all the near misses of daily life off the rails.
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Up in Smoke
Dawn’s Early Light
By: - Aug 01st, 2016With compassion the major offered the condemned men a last cigarette.
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After the Rain
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Madam President
Broken Glass
By: - Jul 29th, 2016Growing up I was told that I could be anything I wanted to be. Including President of the United States of America. It didn't pan out.
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Gloom and Doom
Hard Times
By: - Jul 28th, 2016Dark shadows forecast gloom and doom. But we can't have it both ways
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Putin Make Me Puke
Art of the Steal
By: - Jul 27th, 2016That big bad bear Vladimir Putin? Not to worry. The Donald will invite him to the Trump golf course in Scotland. Over a fine single malt they will decide the fate of the world. Just another deal. So a few people get hurt.
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Checkout Counter
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Surfing Tsunami
All Shook Up
By: - Jul 27th, 2016Lately it seems that a tsunami of bad luck has been crashing over our friends.
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First Light
The Shadow Catcher
By: - Jul 26th, 2016Things that go bump in the night so different in the clear light of day.
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Fast Eddy
Catch Him If You Can
By: - Jul 23rd, 2016My friend Fast Eddy a Jewish/Indian is always on the go. His friends, who he calls "kids," hear from him by e mail about twenty times a day. There are more updates than AP or UPI. But you sense that he truly loves each and every one of us.
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Perhaps
Then Again Perhaps Not
By: - Jul 23rd, 2016He was angry and demanded answers. To which there was a diffident response that infuriated him all the more.
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The Fate of Water
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Losing My Marbles
Not Just Conceptual Art
By: - Jul 21st, 2016To celebrate my retirement I hung a retrospective of some 100 photos in a show called Last Call. On that occasion in 2005 my artist friend Thad Beal gave me a gift of a box of marbles in anticipation of the impending downward spiral. It was funny at the time but now more real with every passing day.
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Raeford Liles
My Oldest Friend
By: - Jul 20th, 2016Down and out on the Lower East side my Godfather, Raeford Liles, saved my ass. A former military man he got things done. On Sunday nights we worked a bar then celebrated with outrageours garden parties. He mixed the sangria in a waste basket and we grilled burgers with screen and a bed spring over charcoal. Still crazy after all these years my oldest friend has turned 93.
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Here and Now
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Time After Time
A Perfect Stranger
By: - Jul 16th, 2016In the waiting room passing time with a perfect stranger.
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