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April 18, 2013
You Are What You Eat — My Latest Watercolor
16″ x 20″ Original Watercolor and Graphite on handmade paper
Purchase Original, Standard Prints & Ready to Hang Gallery Wraps HERE
”Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are.”
– Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
April 17, 2013
My Latest Recipe: Pecan Encrusted Red Snapper w Remoulade Sauce
Remoulade (serves 4)
Ingredients:
3/4 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons cocktail sauce
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
1 tablespoon chili sauce
2 teaspoons Creole mustard
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon Louisiana-style hot sauce, or to taste
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1-1/4 medium scallions, chopped
2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley
2 teaspoons minced celery
1 small clove garlic, minced
1/8 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1/8 teaspoon grou...
April 15, 2013
Ten Words That Have Changed My Life Forever
When we encounter these words, we are always faced with a task. That task demands something more of us than we are willing to give. Without embracing these words in our life vocabulary and experience, we will never grow into maturity.
We all have a fantasy of arriving at a conflict-free plateau or a sunlit glen without struggle, without the demand for increasingconsciousness, without being pulled deeper and further than we wish to travel.
Interestingly, there is such a place—it is called Deat...
April 11, 2013
10 Ways To Live, Work and Love Better
Over the past two very difficult years, I am learning that a person with a healthy idea of self can manage not only the routine ups and downs of daily life but also serious crises as they develop. Social, personal, financial and professional crises, while always upsetting to one’s normal pattern of life, are not paralyzing or totally defeating. In fact, we should grow and mature through crises, coming out of them richer, more understanding, and compassionate human beings. In biblical terms,...
April 8, 2013
Struggle — My Latest Watercolor
12″ x 16″ Original watercolor and graphite on handmade paper $450
Purchase HERE —Ready to Hang Canvas and Standard Prints also available
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
—Carl Jung
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April 3, 2013
Ten Books That Have Changed My Life
I read voraciously—much like I eat and drink; a good book sates the hungry mind. A great book satiates a thirsty soul.
If read thoughtfully at fateful times, great books can shape one’s destiny.
I offer ten tomes for your considerationand in no particular orderthat have nutured my soul. As any bookworm knows, I could offer myriad lists, but these actually grace the most hallowed space in my library (see photo).
1.) The Complete Essays of Montaigne (translated by Donald Frame) — “Of Idleness,”...
March 27, 2013
My Top Ten Happy Songs
These songs make me happy. And I like happy.
1.) I’m Alive Hooters
2.)Drops of Jupiter Train
3.) Beautiful Day U2
4.) Feeling Good Michael Buble
5.) Secret Crowds Angels and Airwaves
6.) Joy Hiromi
7.) Uprising Muse
8.) Dog Days Are Over Florence and the Machine
9.) Adagio for Strings Barber
Tie 10.) Jai Ho A R Rahmen
10.) Oh Happy Day Ramsey Lewis
I could go on…
Question: What is your favorite “Happy” song?
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March 26, 2013
Quick Relief For Real Life
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is.
We plop on the couch and our lives fizzle away like a proverbial Alka-Seltzer tablet. I did it last night, did you?
We are wrapped around by pop culture. News that runs twenty-four hours creates info junkies. Local newscasts find the goriest accidents, the mostsalaciousscandal, the most paranoia-stirring threats to public health to serve up for breakfast, for dinner, and to send us toward turbulent slumber at bedtime.
Transient nonentities are ca...
March 24, 2013
Somewhere Out There—My Latest Watercolor
12″ x 16″ Original Watercolor and Graphite on handmade paper
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“The trick is growing up without growing old.”—Walt Whitman
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March 22, 2013
An Artists’ Thoughts on Wonder
My thoughts—the simplest, clearest, and therefore most wonderful thoughts—give me peace. For the first time in my life the possibility of life presents itself to me—not in relation to any worldly matter or with reference to its effect on others, but simply in relation to myself, to my own soul—vividly, plainly, wonderfully, and as a certainty.
And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied me suddenly becameilluminatedby a warm white light without sh...
