I had a dental appointment yesterday and on the way home remembered that Thursdays are free admission to Muskegon Museum of Art. I hadn’t gone there since they built and opened the new expansion. I was truly astounded at how wonderful it looks inside. The lady at the desk said that it was free but…
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A2Z 2025 — Reflections
I already said quite a bit in a note on my Z entry, so this will be brief. I think I had more fun this year than other years because of my own attitude towards it. Instead of going full blown workaholic on putting the posts together, I chose something I already had a lot…
A2Z 2025 — Day 24 — e(X)hibit — was FFF 13 — Tiffany Lamp exhibit at Muskegon Museum of Art (11/17/23)
I tried to think of something in the yard or in the house that could use “x” but couldn’t, so I searched past posts for something that might work. Here it is. Hope you enjoy it. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill…
dVerse — OLN — poeming through the gardens
Imagine you’re in Chinaand that it’s real bamboothe panda bear is smilingand posing just for you. The hyacinth are bloomingclumped in their special potsgone before the bees wakefragrance calls just us. Naked Miss Wisteriais missing her new dressancient crone stands with helpof iron-caned trellis. Peter’s fond of cabbagealas he breaks his teethSilly…
Scorpion Hearts Club — Call for Submissions for Protest Art and Writing
Younger son sent this request for submissions from The Scorpion Hearts Club, which is located in Grand Rapids, MI. I looked up their website and it looks like a neat place. Did not see anything at the website about this, but it looks like there’s an email address to send submissions, ask questions, etc.
dVerse Poetics — Infamous Nazi Artist Emil Nolde ekphrastic and commentary
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserves their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word…
dVerse — OLN 372 — Yellow Bird
“All Yellow (Morgan Hill)” by Teresa Dunn Yellow BirdI remember when you told me,“You’ll never amount to nothin’,just like your ma, too damned mouthy.”At ten, I cried; believed you then.High school, when they said I had skills,I remember when you told me,“It don’t matter, school ain’t the streets.”Yet I wouldn’t put my brush down.College girl…
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