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November 30, 2019
Memory of a Freight Train for Hope

Memory of a Freight Train for Hope

Tonight, as I drove past the Detroit Institute of Arts, I remembered Yoko Ono’s Freight Train installed on a short stretch of railroad track on the museum’s front lawn in 2003. It was a 1930s German boxcar riddled with bullet holes signifying violence and murder. I remembered how light flickered mysteriously through the bullet holes …

September 28, 2019
The Fascination of Storks

The Fascination of Storks

I recall the sense of enchantment I felt one spring over 20 years ago when Charles and I drove into Náměšť nad Oslavou, the picturesque town where he lived in Czechoslovakia during World War II. The castle, the bridge, the red rooftops, and the white storks with their gangly legs and orange beaks were perched in …

August 25, 2019
Protecting the Sphinx

Protecting the Sphinx

August’s changing astrological season from Leo* to Virgo** calls up images of fearless lions, harvest goddesses and a combination of the two – the mythical sphinx. The sphinx was an ancient Egyptian invention with a lion’s body and male head – human or animal. They usually sported a headdress as worn by Pharaohs. Powerful symbols, the …

July 3, 2019
Nocturne Scenes. Fireworks. Remembering Charles.

Nocturne Scenes. Fireworks. Remembering Charles.

The scene in this contemporary nocturne photograph is the train station in the town of Náměšť nad Oslavou where Charles and his family lived in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Charles loved these night scenes as he also loved the “dreamy pensive mood” of nocturne paintings (and I do, too). On our frequent visits to …

June 23, 2019
Humboldt, Yanomamis, and Charles

Humboldt, Yanomamis, and Charles

One of Charles’s favorite painters, Frederic Edwin Church’s work was greatly influenced by one of his favorite scientists – Alexander von Humboldt, the Prussian naturalist. I’ve been reading a newly published graphic novel by Andrea Wulf, The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt and her Humboldt biography The Invention of Nature and have discovered some interesting things Humboldt …

June 14, 2019
What’s Better than Being in a Library?

What’s Better than Being in a Library?

Answer: Being in a library in a castle! As a child during World War II, Charles was in awe of the small Southern Moravian town on the Oslava River where his family fled in the months leading up to the outbreak of the war. Náměšť nad Oslavou was full of historical treasures, art works and …

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