Fruitful Detours
I’ve been enjoying watching the Olympics on TV. It brought to mind some of the stamps I saw when I was a kid. I am not a stamp collector, but my Dad always had a bunch of stamps around. He wasn’t a collector either, exactly (he liked coins more), but he was thrifty, and purchased […]
Our brains can only process a limited amount of information. In order to process all the information that we are exposed to, our brains have become excellent at quickly discarding any information that isn’t important to us in the moment. (See my post on Noticing to see how this can cause us to miss come obvious […]
Madrid is a beautiful city, and the impression that stays with me is that it is a city of art. The architecture is lovely, and there are a large number of pieces of public art on the streets and in the parks. The most amazing works, however, are behind museum walls. There are over 20 […]
This is an occasional story series. To start the story at the beginning, click here. Washington and Austin feel like they are far apart, but politically they operate the same way. Money talks, and the elected representatives say the things they think their constituents want to hear. The cowboy and Ann were walking down the grand […]
I’ve always liked going to live theatre performances, and the musicals I’ve seen have been especially fun. But I have never enjoyed a show more than the one I saw last week. The show was Beautiful, the Carole King Musical, and it was playing at La Petit Theater in New Orleans. The reason for my […]
This is an occasional story series. To start the story at the beginning, click here. Kenneth Jerome Kasey was as smart as they come. That didn’t always mean that he was the best lawyer. It was his extracurricular interests that made the cowboy his friend. “It’s the border stuff,” Kenny said. “If I had to […]
I use free photography for this blog whenever I can. If I don’t take the pictures myself, I search for public domain photos on the internet. Public domain images are either really old, so that their copyright has expired (which takes 70 years or more after the death of the author in the U.S.; the […]
We have reached the season of decorations. There are always decorations around, of course, but beginning around Halloween and through New Year’s Day, there are decorations everywhere. I think we decorate for a number of reasons. For holidays, it is partly to draw attention to what we are celebrating. But in general, we want to […]
To start at the beginning, click here. They went to a small room. Several people had apparently seen the confrontation between the cowboy and the drunk aide.“You didn’t know the man?”“Never met him before tonight.”“Why were you arguing?”“We weren’t. He made some dumb comments, and we left. I don’t think I said anything.”“What kind of […]
I was at the Art Institute of Chicago the other day, and they had a wonderful exhibition by an artist named Remedios Varo. I didn’t have a clue who she was. It turns out that she was a famous painter who was born in Spain, but due to war, she fled to France and then […]