Te Deum
He was a skinny old man. First thing I say every morning Before my feet hit the floor I'm calling out, "Praise the Lord, oh my soul." I...


Cynthia Layne
I continue to be saddened by the loss of Cynthia Layne. What a voice (can still hear her voice alone, but that is no way the whole of her.)


Still There
After dodging three candidates for Governor, I escape to the studio. Here is a fine, sway-backed, highly improbable table. Liked how...


Fait Dodo
The words of “Fait Dodo”, (an old French lullaby which my mother sang to me, I to my children and they to theirs) are hidden in the...
Almost You Lost Me
Almost you lost me; Silly little thing Of inconsequential matters. Underneath, though, I was there. Only when you wiped off My make-up,...
11-19-1984
This huge studio is the cat's meow. Am working on large canvasses, scrambling across them on floor, enjoying the process of drawing and...
Let It Shine
Yesterday, while listening to the CD “Yo-Yo Ma and Friends”, I heard Amelia Brown, the remarkable Indianapolis contralto, sing out, “This...
Oct. 14th
So what’s new? Well, yesterday we caught the weekly van- ride to the grocery store, PO, Bank, what have you. (At 91 and 87, neither...


Oddities
From the Preface to Finding Your Way: When the photographer Jacob Katz was in Guatemala, two little girls of the village adopted him. ...
October 5th
So many artists live here that our residential Inn, Dirigo Pines, is having a show of our work in October. My studio walls are covered...