Farmer’s market dinner…
Farmer’s market bounty, including sunflowers in background…
From my walk this morning… gay pride in the shop windows.
From my morning walk…
At first I thought it was something to do with COVID protocol. Then I thought they are afraid of being attacked during prayer. First time I have seen such a sign on their front door in my 16 years of living here.
This morning’s writing desk…
January 6 Is a Dangerous Shorthand-03
Misconduct must have consequences, and it is not just appropriate but imperative that democratic societies expect and enforce a higher standard from their public officials.
January 6 Is a Dangerous Shorthand02
The campaign by the former president and his associates to subvert an election is not tolerable. Attempting to cover up that misconduct is not tolerable. The groundwork being laid to sabotage future elections is not tolerable.
January 6 Is a Dangerous Shorthand 01
This may be the panel’s more cryptic and consequential challenge. It will not be enough to put the full scope of misconduct on display and fashion a comprehensible story. It must also convince the public that such conduct is intolerable.
On my walk this morning.
My wife and our dog Chas. Chas is 8 today.
Shahzia Sikander’s Radical Take on Traditional Arts
Really like this woman’s work.
… the artist’s use of a traditional medium refuses neat categories of gender and nationhood, flipping assumptions of the historical past as the site of cultural authenticity.
From my walk this AM…
It’s even more disturbing to see that spirit of armed defiance so closely correlated with the religious right. The decision of Christians to provoke their fellow citizens into feeling palpable, physical fear of armed violence is deliberately malicious and cruel.
David French
Defiance is different. It’s rooted in the will to power. It is designed to implant fear, not to save lives but to exert control. It contradicts a core value of a classically-liberal society, that change comes through courts and the ballot box, not through intimidation and fear.
David French
… the threat to America’s gun culture comes from the gun rights movement itself. The threat is gun idolatry, a form of gun fetish that’s fundamentally aggressive, grotesquely irresponsible, and potentially destabilizing to American democracy.
David French
Cracked clay…
From this morning’s walk…
On Block Island there is this rock that gets painted at least once a week. Sometimes several times in a week. We speculate there are thousands of layers of paint and that the rock underneath is tiny. This is a particularly nice iteration.
What’s for dinner tonight, minus the blood pasta… Blood Pasta With Blood Sausage Bolognese - Saveur
From this morning’s walk…
It’s help the turtles get to the other side of the road time of year. Sometimes they get so excited by your assistance they pee on you.
From this morning’s walk…
From this morning’s walk…
Very pleased to have two of my Flattened Can Grids featured in a local group show.
Either cow parsnip or giant hogweed. Either way, don’t touch…
