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New issue: Quaker Art Journal: “Types & Shadows”
— Faith, Family, Brooklyn; War, Peace and God: the often agonizing spiritual journey of a Jewish Quaker. — A fantasy fling with the Spirit of the Sea. — More Quaker authors & poets, and a Quarterly...
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A New Book of Resistance Verse, Serious & Whimsical
“Write to Congress!” That’s what our Quaker lobby told us. “Frequently. Your letters make a difference.” Well, I was skeptical; but I did it anyway. For a year-plus. Did it make a difference? Sort of:...
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A Happy/Sad Anniversary: Occupy Wall Street Began 14 years ago on Sept. 17, 2011
[This post shamelessly shared from history.com] The edge of Zuccotti Park, NYC, a few days before the cops cleared it. Photos by me. On September 17, 2011, hundreds of activists gather around Zuccotti...
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Washington Post: More In Sorrow, But With PLENTY of Anger
– NOTE: “Corruptio optimi pessima” = Corruption of the best is the worst of all. I can’t remember when I started reading the Washington Post. I was following it through the Watergate years, but...
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New Issue of “Types & Shadows”– Quaker Arts Journal-Online NOW (Free)
You can read and browse it here free: Types & Shadows is the quarterly journal of the Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts. (FQA) It first appeared in 1996, and has been produced ever since by...
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New Issue of a Quaker Arts Journal — Now Online
Can art help us get through (and bear witness in) hard times? The Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts (aka FQA) thinks so. A new example is the just-published issue of FQA’s journal, Types &...
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Weekend Cartoons-1
The critics were (almost) satisfied. . . . “It was a decent issue. But once again, cats were seriously under-represented. . . .” PS.
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Harvard, Affirmative Action, “Reparations,” & Me
An earlier exposés of legacy preference/WASP affirmative action, from 2006. One of the most shopworn and least shocking of discoveries about USA higher education Is that of Ivy League “affirmative...
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Quote of the Day — Lincoln & Emancipation: The First Version
On this day [Sept. 22] in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, a document that put the Confederacy on notice of his intention to free their slaves. They...
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On the Brink of Autumn: Quote of the Season
Joe Biden, 09/15/2022, United We Stand Summit, at the White House: George Floyd mural, Minneapolis “Too much hate that’s fueled extremist violence [has] been allowed to fester and grow. Heather...
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Hunter Biden’s Laptop
From New York Magazine — Sept. 12, 2022 The Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden’s Laptop The most invasive data breach imaginable is a political scandal Democrats can’t just wish away. By Andrew Rice and...
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Guest Post: Profile of A Renegade Quaker Artist – Edward Sorel
[NOTE: Friend Gary Sandman, of Roanoke Meeting in Virginia, has long been collecting and distributing short articles about artists and performers who are Quaker, or Quaker adjacent. His latest profile...
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New Quaker Arts Journal Issue: “Types & Shadows”
NOTE: I’ve been a member of the Fellowship of Quakers in the arts since the late ’90s. It’s a small, scattered and anarchic network [confirming its Quaker character], which has done a lot with a...
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Monumental, Yes — But Is It Art, Mr. Oldenburg??
The Guardian: Claes Oldenburg Obituary A photo gallery of some of his most memorable works is HERE Pop artist famed for his ‘soft sculptures’ and outsized monuments to everyday objects Charles Darwent...
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Raising American Girls?
I’m not an expert, but I’ve been involved in raising several American Girls: daughters, granddaughters & now great granddaughters. And I hope I’ve learned a thing or two. Here’s one: several of the...
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The Colors of Courage: Underground Russian War Protests:
Art of dissent: How Russians protest the war on Ukraine They risk jail, stigma and fines. But Russian protesters are finding creative ways to get their message out. Washington Post: By Robyn Dixon,...
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Video Treat of the Week: “Song of Myself,” Stanza 5
From the far out West, up against the curling, capricious lip of the Pacific, comes a dispatch from our Coastal Ocean & Fire Correspondent, Mitchell Santine Gould. With it is a stunning animated...
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Ukraine, War Notes: The End of Euphoria, A Shift in The Odds
Washington Post: Ukraine is running out of ammunition as prospects dim on the battlefield Hopes that Ukraine will be able to reverse Russian gains are fading in the face of superior firepower By...
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Hey, Charlie Brown: Will You Ever Kick That Football??
AP News: “A Good Man”: Exhibits honor ‘Peanuts’ creator Schulz on 100th BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AND PATRICK ORSAGOS May 27, 2022 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In a series of “Peanuts” comic strips that ran in...
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