We’re nearing the shortest day of the year and we’ve reached a grim milestone in our tragic Coronavirus disease losses. However, with this week’s first vaccinations administered in the States, a ray of hope has arrived. The altered course of this global tribulation is on the horizon. In my everyday, there are a few, simple […]
I’m a little late to get a Thanksgiving post out but as it’s still Thanksgiving weekend here in the states, and 2020 has been anything but typical, I thought a little late, well, you know how the saying goes. There is so much to be mindful of in this twentieth year of the 21st century. […]
As we round our third gray and rainy day on the east coast, an early morning chat with dear friend Laura Seita of Fig & Squill reminded me of greener, brighter days. The breach in the event world caused by the coronavirus pandemic has clarified our interconnectivity. I am grateful that during past summers I […]
LOST Stand Still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you […]
Here’s a bright spot for a spell of rainy and cool days just before Halloween. One of my first visits to a store after things started opening back up over the summer was to KRB, a bastion of color on the Upper East Side. I made a pilgrimage there to experience iconic restaurateur Charles Masson’s […]
“The paintings which I propose to do will depict the struggle of a people to create a nation and their attempt to build a democracy.” -Jacob Lawrence, 1954 On view for just a week more is Jacob Lawrence’s rarely-seen series —”Struggle: From the History of the American People” (1954–56)—Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle at The […]
As we transition into fall and continue our best practices for safety and health with the raging coronavirus pandemic, I revisit the John Singer Sargent show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art June 30-October 4, 2015, Portraits of Artists and Friends. Sargent’s brushwork is captivating; smooth and lifelike, gestural and evocative. While he was masterful […]
Perhaps it’s my childhood of 1970’s suburban Washington, D.C., as well as my fondness for organic forms in art and architecture. Or maybe it’s my love of traveling to new places. But there’s something about the recently transformed, Saarinen-designed Landmark TWA Flight Center, the TWA Hotel, that makes my heart soar. Growing up in Reston, […]
