He lost his mother at fourteen. For as long as he could remember he would hear her coughing at two or three o'clock in the morning. It was a loud hacking cough followed by a gagging sound as she coughed up phlegm spotted with blood. She had tuberculosis, but the family was too poor for any treatment that could save her. Through it all, she kept their modest home clean and … [Read more...]
A message from Bill
We thought it would be fun to go into our archives and reprint some of the articles from Bill's "Fire In" Magazine. Today's piece comes from before "Fire In" was a magazine. It's from the Alexander Art Club Newsletter. Bill wrote the segment called "Sketches." --------------- What a beautiful day it is! The sun is shining, and the grass is still wet with the morning dew. … [Read more...]
Learn a new language
My mother was a math teacher. She was kind of famous in the county where she taught. Some folks told me she probably taught over half the kids in the county over her lifetime. It seems they either loved her or hated her. There was no in-between with mom. I, myself, didn't do really well in math. At least not like my brother who was a math whiz. He ended up going to MIT and … [Read more...]
A child’s imagination
My daughter-in-law Nicole texted us this morning with a video she secretly recorded of our granddaughter Sloane. Sloane was dancing on the deck behind their new home. I wonder if Philip and Nicole realized they were adding a performance stage to their house. Did they think about ballerinas and stage lights? It didn't take long for Sloane to figure it out, … [Read more...]
Guiding Principles
What if every time you painted you created a masterpiece? Here's how the Old Masters did it for centuries. Time-Tested Principles Don't make up new rules of art. According to rabbinic tradition, Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon in his old age. Solomon writes, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the … [Read more...]
Texting and Painting
Did you know ninety-seven percent of American adults send text messages every week, if not every day? Since 97% pretty much includes everyone, I guess it's no surprise we send over six billion texts every day. It gets worse, though. Text messages have a ninety-nine percent open rate. We respond to a text in about ninety seconds! Did you ever get annoyed when you got … [Read more...]
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