https://youtu.be/uHyYqoSXztk Singing this song as a young person always brought a heartwarming scene of happy elders, together after all these years. With no clue about what was to come! I couldn't have anticipated the bumps along the road from 24 to 64. But here I am, well into "the new 40" recently thrust into early…
Footprints
For a Michigander, summer seems to last forever in the Southern Maryland. Of course, I've been preoccupied with the Big Move, but today, a fortnight past Equinox and I'm marveling: suddenly the forest has been glazed with transparent yellow. Leaves are floating to earth on the steady breeze off the river like a shower of golden…
Art Moves Us, and I am Moving Art!
I'm in the throes of moving my household, but more importantly, my studio. This is the part of the house I will miss the most, since my new temporary space doesn't have such a wonderful workspace. But I've discovered treasure buried in the challenge of going through nearly ten years of artistic accumulation. It's wonderful…
Resistance to Change
I heard it took extra dynamite to destroy the foundations of the old Henkel Flour mills, when the Detroit riverfront docks were being renovated. It pleases me that my great-grandfather's legacy was so stubborn. Odd, since I so often want to smash the past and break that rigid shell of pretending we were all shiny…
