Almost Blue, Jazz & Art
A perfect pairing for a Wednesday morning. Mellow jazz and my favorite color.
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13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After
My mother died seven years ago this month, which is also the month I was born. I wrote a short …
Touching & Being Touched, Why We Blog
“The function of language is not to inform but to evoke . . . responses.” So writes Jacques Lacan, …
Perfect Pairings, Evans’s “Peace Piece” & Sapiro’s Skies
Bill Evans’s “Peace Piece” is “an unrehearsed modal composition that he recorded for his “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” LP in …
Playing Piano, a Full-Body Workout for the Brain
As I’ve begun learning to replay the piano, I’ve been amazed to realize what a complicated endeavor it is. It …
Making Room for all My Loves – Music, Art, Writing
A year and a half ago I blogged about Learning to Play (Again) and wrote this I played piano as …
In the Mood for Love, in Music and Art
Some favorite pairings in music and art to start your weekend off. I fell in love with this hauntingly sad-sweet …
“Slow Swirl at the Edge of Time”
This naming of this painting did not come “like a conversation between two lovers,” as the name of my last …
How Art Intensifies Life – Robinson on Writing, Metaphor, & the Sacred
I came across this interview with Marilynne Robinson, who is one of America’s finest living writers, in an old edition …
Naming a Painting, “Like Two Lovers in Conversation”
“Warm and rich, rich and warm, which is which?” Like a mantra, these words echo through my mind as I …
