Thomas Wolfe House “You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood … back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but...
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Columbus Day It is my understanding that this statue of Christopher Columbus, in Columbus, Ohio, has been removed; I am so glad I took the time to photograph it, when I did. The monument has fallen prey, like so many cultural elements in our history, to a mob rule, which seeks to...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Grey Weather, Morning with Figures, Eragny by Camille Pissarro I do not see the grey morning; rather I am drawn to the golden fields, bordered by wild flowers, and the harvest. I...
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The Anatomy of a Cybersecurity Attack I have felt lately like we, in the cyber security community, are failing at our posts. Our clients are suffering from real day to day cybersecurity threats, turning off their computers at night, to wake up to the same scenario that they just left. We keep saying if...
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Library Walk “Truth exists. Only falsehood has to be invented.” George Braque (1882-1963) – Le Jour et La Nuit Sometimes we must look down to see the view. One of my favorite places in New York is the Public Library, on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street; you know where the two large marble lions,...
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Possibilities There are so many ways This could go What it might become I have to wonder Which path will be taken Either way I know There will be consequences You do not seem to mind Neither do I But I do not believe That all choices are equal I suppose We will know...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ At the Foot of the Cross by Robert Scott Duncanson I know she projects a deep melancholy; but I also find her beautiful and at the moment, she speaks to me. For many...
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Happy Fall! Putting up this year’s autumn village was a bit bitter sweet. My great-niece, who so loves to make “adjustments” to the village, has moved away, and most likely will not have an opportunity to see this year’s offering. But today fall has begun; the trees are most definitely beginning...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Tonight Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. I do not want to address the politics involved in her dying, at this moment in time, and I am not qualified to eulogize her life. But I have held on to this cover, of the Los Angeles Times, since October 2, 1993, when she...
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur “Le shanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim” Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown on September 18th and ends at nightfall on September 20th, 2020. The New Year is ushered in according to Leviticus 23, with the sounding of the Shofar, calling Jews to seek God’s forgiveness, reflecting on...
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