This is the story of a man who, by holding God’s values deep in his heart, manifested a great capacity to tolerate, love and cherish the other.
Archives for 2017
Embracing The Full Spectrum of Musical Genres
While many prominent musicians famously shun any discussion of genres, the fact is that there are broad categories of music with shared origins, instrumentation, arrangements, and other characteristics that bind them together.
Abstract Contemplative
My work is about the investigation of mind thru art. We cannot avoid thoughts, but through awareness of our pitfalls, beauty, strengths and weaknesses we can open windows into the mind. The process of my contemplative art practice is to visually embody the blind spots as a result of our thoughts.
Hidden corners
In the past I have thought that in order to take wonderful and interesting photographs, I have to go somewhere different, somewhere exotic, somewhere that isn’t here. But one thing I am learning from my ongoing photography project is that this is not the case.
Tarmac Meditations #184: Cold Moon Rising
Here I was, home in one piece, “fired up and ready to go,” as my former President used to say. I took a picture of the moon and headed inside.
The Film-School Student Who Never Graduates: A Profile of Ang Lee, Part Two
Each of Ang Lee’s films that followed Sense and Sensibility was radically different, and presented different risks and challenges, from all those that preceded it.
Why Metal Detectors Play a Big Role in the Food Industry
Metal Detectors occupy an irreplaceable place in production lines of food companies today and its future only seems to look brighter.
My $150.00 Piano Lesson: Play What You Want To Hear
My classical piano studies taught me a lot about technique and reading music, but in jazz and pop styles, you improvise over chord changes. That terrified me. How do you just… improvise? I didn’t know how to make the transition.
Awakening
In the middle of the storm, water floods the streets, the creek beds, the basements of buildings, everywhere resisting containment.
Tarmac Meditations #183: The Miracle of Second Chances
Running before daylight has always been my chosen cathedral. Time to eat right, work hard, run and pray. Oh yeah, also a good time to be grateful for the miracle of second chances .