(A Menorah; The Virgin Mary; Eve; An Ancient Egyptian Fertility Figure; Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and, The Buddhist Goddess of Compassion) These figures sit on a two-hundred-year-old piece of furniture that belonged to my Aunt Margaret. It is a biscuit bin, covered with drawers of various sizes and shapes. The top of the bin is heavy, […]
(Photograph I took of the sunlight shining through old casement windows into my living room, reflecting off the handle of an even older brass coal shuttle that belonged to my mother) This essay was first published over two years ago and on a different website. I have updated the small personal history in the […]
This is the third draft of Chapter Nineteen. I might well come back to it later, but for now I am moving on–from the chapter, you understand. The Old Boyfriend and I moved on half a century ago. Chapter Nineteen The Ford and the Teacher “I knew that I . . . came across as […]
(Moving Toward the Light II, watercolor on paper, 87 1/2″ x 49″ 2015) The description of Moving Toward the Light on Joseph Raffael’s website reads in part: “A major new book on the artist covering the past 17 years of his life and work in the South of France. Reproducing 88 works in rich color, […]
TALKING BEAUTY: A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOSEPH RAFFAEL AND DAVID PAGEL ABOUT ART, LOVE, DEATH AND CREATIVITY Joseph Raffael and David Pagel are among the small handful of people who would dare to call a collection of emails “a conversation . . . about art, love, death and creativity.” Yet that is precisely what they have […]
(Haiku Fish I – White, lithograph in colors, from an edition of 32, signed and dated, 22.5” x 28.5” 1979) Below are two excerpts from a long essay, “The Elements: A Southerner in Northern California” (2018), in which I tell the story of meeting Joseph Raffael and of his gift of the lithograph, “Haiku […]
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg (photo from NYTimes article below) “Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis A Times investigation revealed how the social network responded as it faced one scandal after another — Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech. The executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg stumbled. Bent on growth, the […]
