Another narrow escape from the high life.I once held an original Brancusi marble sculpture worth perhaps several million dollars! It wasn’t my idea, really. The owner,…
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Rollo MayI once had dinner with some good friends in Oakland, CA. They told me they had invited over someone they wanted me to meet. Soon…
“I see a system that, even if it bounces back to “normal,” I have no interest in rejoining, a system that is beginning to come undone.” So says…
As a figurative sculptor I’ve spent much of my life turning over the questions of exploitation in viewing the body. As a male artist, when I…
A couple nights ago I was awakened by an argument outside my open window. It was my neighbor shouting at some guy in a car, apparently…
I was asked recently to address an online group called Design Your Life, about living an authentic life in times when the culture is trying to…
There is a major rot in the heart of American culture that I’ve worried about for some time but that’s rarely recognized. So it was with…
My wife Sam and our 11-year-old daughter Penny came home this week with a surprise: a homeless man. The temperature had dipped to -10 and was plunging toward -35…
It was 1987 when I got a call from a national United Methodist Church committee that wanted to award South African anti-apartheid activist and spokesperson Archbishop…
I mourn the steady loss of beauty in our time. One would think in a sophisticated, wealthy society like ours that while we make plans to…