What is genre? I have asked and asked this question and back in 2018 I found an interesting explanation -- but I didn't note where it came from. A story is a piece of art that induces different emotions as it is read, or told. Different stories can evoke different patterns, varying types of emotion [...]
A friend sent me a YouTube video for an art exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, devoted to the artist Raphael. It is one of the largest exhibitions of his work ever put on. It is exquisite. Watch the video. https://youtu.be/y5vnCnB4JcE?si=M3snocb7Aeo2wJY5 Lots of paintings are on view but also, lots of drawings and [...]
I’m having a bit of a struggle with my writing. I invented a setting where I think about choices that people make, and how they work out what they are willing to do to make their choices real. Written like that it sounds like any long novel, but in fact I’m writing short stories about [...]
... who once pushed open a door that had heavy weights against it, to wake her oversleeping owner. You might think it was about food but ... it wasn't. Here is a Woman with a Cat, Auguste Renoir, 1875. Here is Julie Manet Holding a Cat by Berthe Morisot, 1889, printed by someone else in [...]
The First Reading at Mass today is from the Acts of the Apostles, Acts 16: 22-34. Paul on his missionary journeys was arrested, beaten, and jailed in Philippi. He and his companions were in Philippi, a city in Macedonia, because Paul received a vision begging him to come and preach the gospel in Macedonia. He [...]
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