On Becoming a Frog
Written March 4th, 2011 Yes, you read that correctly. Becoming a frog, and by extension, exercising my ‘frog-ness’, has developed into something of a personal imperative, an ideal even. And it’s one that I actively and even passionately pursue day after day. This, I understand will involve something of...
Protecting What I Keep Inside
Written February 11th, 2011 From the moment I first felt the impulse to write, which at this point accounts for more than three decades, I became acutely aware of my limitations in doing precisely that. It’s been a never-ending speedbump from the very beginning. I struggled mightily with English...
It’s All In the Eyes
Written January 14th, 2018 I will ask that you look deeply into these eyes, for they are the eyes of no mere mortal. Nietzsche once wrote, “Alas, there are so many things between heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed,” and in Walt Whitman, those words...
Guernica to Woodstock – A Digression on Art and Politics
Written August 11th, 2020 I would have never suspected a link existed between the two, but there it was right in front of me, Pablo Picasso and Jimi Hendrix, artists separated by a generation, a continent, and a World War, but due to their extraordinary originality, their works are...