Two women lead the way. One with the tricolored flag—white, purple, and green– of the women’s movement. The other with a baby in her arms. Behind them a long line of women who had never cast a vote. If you can’t cast a vote, cast a rock through a parliament member’s window. That’s why Ethel […]
A solitary figure looks out over mountaintops, mystery, creation. Caspar David Friedrich’s The Wanderer. The wanderer is us. Wisps of fog everywhere at the beginning or middle or end of a journey. Beethoven’s introduction marked Grave. A big bang dissonant chord grabs us by the arm or scruff of the neck. It is followed immediately […]
Five tongues of flame descend upon her. “Warming, not burning,” as she says in one of her many visions. She dictates this vision to her teacher, Volmar. The gold background the background of eternity. God’s paradise always reoccurring, available. Music the richest part of paradise. It floats high above us, yet penetrates most deeply. Hildegard […]
Hi everyone, Happy to announce that Tennis Players as Works of Art was chosen as one of eight Outstanding Books of the Year for the 29th annual IPPY Awards. IPPY is short for Independent Publisher’s Book Awards. Tennis Players as Works of Art won the award for its Original Concept. Last year there were over […]
The Sultan Shahriar, convinced of the duplicity and infidelity of all women, vowed to slay each of his wives after the first night. The Sultana Scheherazade, however, saved her life by the expedient of recounting to the Sultan a succession of tales over a period of one thousand one nights. Overcome by curiosity, the monarch […]