Apparently if an ant is removed from the colony it doesn’t live very long, not nearly as long as if it stays in it. It is like they are one […]

I didn’t collect things when I met him. I remember answering when he asked if would like a painting, by saying I tried living without accumulating stuff. He really wanted […]

It was really nice meeting you yesterday. I think I found my answers.If music is not associated with stability why is it the one of the oldest art forms that […]

I went through a tough time twenty years ago following a break up and I was depressed and miserable and alone and isolated, 45 minutes past Hamilton, in the middle […]

I want to collect songs sung from the view of characters that are not the singer. See if I can get the students to try their hands at it. you […]

Searching through Disney + for something interesting. I never saw the Hitchcock film starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. It was awesome but sent me down an Anthony Perkins rabbit […]

Had a beautiful exchange with Mendelson Joe today. I was relistening to his records in recent days and I think his last record, 2013’s Art is the Healer, is his […]

Got my shingles shot. I knew someone who got shingles in her early 40s. She was distressed and derailed by the experience. Not me. Some rare good news from the […]

Yesterday, someone handed in a paper with a 55% rate of copied from elsewhere. At all the colleges and universities there is a plagiarism application called Turnitin. It shows me […]

Generally art (except for music) doesn’t impress animals. You can put a painting in front of them, read them poetry, start a movie but chances are if you play music […]