The Shipwreck Rose: For the Birds
My children definitely don’t feel the sense of excitement we felt as children at the holidays. They’re quite blasé.
Gristmill: Two Commandments
L.A. story: eternal gratitude to that West Hollywood art house cinema for an introduction to Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Dekalog.”
Point of View: Dia de Muertos, Day of the Dead
On the Day of the Dead, I think about them, my immediate forebears.
Guestwords: Fractals in Our Far East
Dr. Robert Marshall’s metaphor of the fractals within a tree is useful in explaining the infinite patterns, and from there it’s a short leap to fractals in the arts.