Category Archives: Musings

1- Ability without ambition is like kindling wood without the spark. – Anonymous 2- it’s never enough to just master technique; you must learn how to see. 3- Trump communicates two ways; shouting or lying, nothing in between.

1- All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. – Alexandre Dumas 2- not dens, libraries or workshops; some men want man caves. how telling. 3- not red, white and blue but red and blue, the Divided States of America, or … Continue reading →

1- Experience isn’t interesting till it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. – Elizabeth Bowen 2- Could being at a funeral be called a near death experience? 3- Trump called himself … Continue reading →

1- Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2- I’m 75 and still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. 3- the closer we get to November, the more … Continue reading →

1- The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. – Joyce Carol Oates 2- sometimes what I didn’t intend looks better than what was intended. (artwise) 3- two things Trump does well: 1- takes credit for most things, or 2- blames … Continue reading →

1- The nail that sticks up gets hammered down. – Japanese saying 2- some work, technically correct but otherwise empty, meaningless design. 3- the empty of Trump; no emotion, no intellect, just endless self praise.

1- When we all think alike, no one thinks very much. – Walter Lippman 2- it’s not a matter of knowing when to start so much as just starting. 3- follow the money when trying to think why Trump has … Continue reading →

1- The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. – Eric Hoffer 2- in the future we’ll all be starvation slim and wearing respirators. 3- don’t know who I fear more, … Continue reading →

1- The older I get, the faster I was. – Charles Barkley 2- you can’t always tell what the front looks like from just seeing the back. (sculpture) 3- the crisis at the border isn’t the wall, it’s Trump, and … Continue reading →

1- Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred. – Abraham Maslow 2- not where things come from but where thoughts come from, that’s what intrigues me. 3- Trump — missing intellect, like a missing tooth, is … Continue reading →