Oxherding Is Fun

How can this man, living over 100 years ago have such a connection to my psyche, my soul, I know not.  Actually, maybe I do.  John Muir loved the woods, appreciated its beauty and celebrated it in words.  He kept a journal of his wanderings through Yosemite and beyond.  He was the naturalist’s naturalist.  His [...]

Everyone hears of Ansel Adams when you are introduced to photography.  Only later did I realize the genius, the dedication to his craft and elevation of photography to art that Ansel Adams accomplished.  Of course he is known for his Yosemite prints and I like the fact that he spent so much time in one [...]

The art of Thomas Hart Benton was the very first I remember seeing and, more importantly, being in awe of those works of art.  I grew up in Jefferson City, Missouri attending school across the street from the Capitol of the Great State of Missouri.  My mom actually worked in the capitol building and I [...]

Why art?  Why do we create it?  Why is it found in the earliest human caves to the largest modern museums?  Why do the richest of us spend millions on a painting and the rest of us agonize over what to put on our walls?   Words from the great explainers (Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein to [...]