Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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On The Same Day: Dead Integrity
Long-time readers know my fascination with related/ unrelated people who die on the same day. Over the weekend we had a doozy– Archibald Cox and Samuel Dash. Peace. Peace.
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Birds I Saw at Montrose Harbor this Morning
At the Montrose Hedge, 7:30 – 9 AM female american redstart magnolia warbler chestnut-sided warbler common yellowthroat warbler cedar waxwing wilson’s warbler
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Barenboim
Saw Daniel Barneboim on Sunday. A transcendant experience. Barenboim is a genius. He never spoke. Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No.8, Op.13 “Pathétique” It sounds like there is a mistake in this piece– it is so damn complex, that to an untrained ear it sounds crazy to even try to put together the notes.…
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Not So Old
Our Darwinian obsession with World’s Oldest This and That was dealt a blow today.
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Steve Neal, Giant
Earlier this week, Steve Neal, hard-hitting political columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a world-renowned political historian, committed suicide in the garage of his suburban Chicago home. Neal joined the Sun-Times in 1987, a crazy year in Chicago politics. Legendary mayor Harold Washington dropped dead in his office, touching off a firestorm of protest and…