Beauty vs. “Art”: Humility in the artist is his frank acceptance of all experiences, just as Love in the artist is simply that sense of Beauty that reveals to the world its body and its soul. ~ Oscar Wilde I have noticed that people often — and I think unconsciously — use the … Read More
This post was originally published on January 18, 2015, and updated on January 11, 2021. So how does one embody (a current buzzword) True Beauty? As I became more and more convinced of the all-pervasive importance of deep, True Beauty, I began thinking about this. One day I sat at my computer, and the answer(s) … Read More
This post was originally published on October 21, 2014, and updated on December 14, 2020. Once upon a time, somewhere in the winter of 1980, maybe, my business partner and I were driving north up a gray Interstate 89 on our return home from Montpelier, Vermont, from yet another all-important business meeting. A few years … Read More
The artist Louise Bourgeois famously stated, “You are born alone. You die alone…” And this has been embraced into the lexicon of folk wisdom ever since. She was wrong. Or rather, I disagree. First of all, how can we be born alone when we spend our first 9 months inside our mother’s womb, being so … Read More
My life has been very full lately. One might say “busy,” but that does not quite capture what I have been experiencing, as a large part of the perceived fullness has centered around choices – choices between opportunities and multiple possibilities. As I weighed the pros and cons of all these possibilities (“Go there!” “Come … Read More