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A recent visit to the San Francisco Bay area was most enjoyable. It took a trip across the country from New York to SF to make me aware of how much detail we simply disregard as we walk through our lives. It’s all there, right in front of our eyes, and when these images reach [...]
April Showers Bring May Flowers
Category Art
You see them sitting on desks or on mantles, or as centerpieces on grand tables. Some people give them as much care and comfort as their own children. They cost as little or as much as you care to pay for them. And finally they are they are available in their own specialty stores, or [...]
Rainy Days in Osaka and Bangkok
Category Art, Movies
Flying into Osaka twice, once from Tokyo, then again after a nice sojourn to Bangkok, Thailand, reminded me of the movie Black Rain which starred Michael Douglas as New York Police Detective Nick Conklin. Black Rain appeared in the theaters way back in 1989, and has been replayed many times in my own home. Douglas [...]
East/West Diversions
Category Art, Movies
Where has the time gone? Does it seem like twenty-five years have gone by? A few days ago, on March 22nd, an anniversary was observed. It was the 25th anniversary of the release of a film that many of you watched as children. It is also likely that many of you were adults then, so [...]
March Madness
Category Art
Yes, it is March again. Baseballs are being tossed around in Florida and Arizona as the exhibition season is here. College basketball is at the forefront as the annual college hoops tourney will be with us very shortly.
Sea Fever & Siren Songs
Category Art, Movies
There’s nothing like the shore, the beach, or a day on the high seas to make you feel like you’re alive. The seas have awesome power, they cannot be conquered, and are eternal. The British poet John Masefield in his poem Sea-Fever wrote: I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea [...]
Flying Down to Rio
Category Art, Travel
Back in 1933, movie greats Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were teamed up for the first time. The movie was entitled Flying Down to Rio. While the all the principals from that movie have passed on, the idea has not. In nine days, AoV hits the skyways again. When I touch down, my taxi will [...]