- Pic of Mount Saint Helens, active volcano outside Portland Thx to Harry Penders for this stunning picture of Mount Saint Helens, an active volcano visible from downtown Portland, Oregon. Admittedly not literary, except to serve as a memento mori, to take a moment and appreciate natural beauty whenever you can, knowing that we all live Under the Volcano, so to speak.Next up, a link […]
- Pic of Paul Gauguin Playing the Harmonium and Not Wearing Pants The Internet is cranking these suckers out today. Taken by Alphonse Mucha, ca. 1895. Thx Open Your Eyes. A link to Gauguin’s work at the MOMA if you’re so inclined to self-educate. More importantly, a link to one of my all-time favorite books, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE, based on Gauguin’s life.
- Pic of Paul Gauguin’s Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) It’s hot as hell in New York, so enjoy this strange, beautiful picture of women cooling off in the water (courtesy of the National Gallery). This also reminds us that there are distant, unknowable lands hiding out there, when life in the city gets too tough, and escape is only a one-way ticket away.
- Paul Gauguin’s Pauvre Pêcheur Halfway through this insane work week, four days before Tax Day, and mired in the midst of “cruelest” April, let’s take a moment to look at Gauguin’s Poor Fisher (painted in 1896), who, in my mind, looks pretty happy with the simple life. That is all.
