Month: April 2016

Russell Edson

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It’s like wanting to go to heaven without dying. Russell Edson Russell Edson was an American poet, novelist, writer and illustrator, and the son of the cartoonist-screenwriter Gus Edson. He studied art early in life and attended the Art Students League […]

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The Burden of Possessions

These items were Gandhi’s inventoried possessions after a zealot murdered him. I feel most of our lifestyles would not reflect thus. We acquire a lot of detritus along the way. George Carlin lamented our need to acquire storage space, so we could accumulate more STUFF. Everyone gathers physical and emotional baggage along our chosen path: be it the road less taken or its […]

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Horsehead Chess

It seems a little strange, people congratulating me (I have to think for what, but then I remember I’m retiring next month after almost 24 years in education). This pic was taken three years ago in our gifted classroom in the 300 wing. These guys are seniors now getting ready to graduate. They were sophomores […]

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