The Leaden Thistle

1. Impossible Imaginings

   2021-08-30 21:51:00 UTC
   Art is essentially a means to imagine the impossible.  It gives us the space to imagine things outside our daily experience.  These imaginings can then inspire us to make changes, however big or small, to a world that previously seemed rigid and unchangeable.  We use art to see the world…

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2. The Long Crucifixion

   2021-08-26 16:51:01 UTC
   Kristin and I recently saw an exhibition of objects from first century Pompeii at The Legion of Honor in San Francisco.  Afterward at our BestFriendDrinkingClub (BFDC) meeting we discussed how Jesus was conspicuously absent from the frescoes, decorative vases, and other image bearing objects. Fresco of Mount Vesuvius Current photograph…

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3. Deep Silence

   2019-03-05 19:32:34 UTC
   Flying over Greenland in 2018 invokes a deep silence.  One that allows the buzzing of this human virus to fall into total stillness.  After humanity this silence will be global again.  For now, it feels like a deep well in the desert.  

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