Category Archives: Art

Flowers of the Forest – A short history of an historical lament, and this time it is personal

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Chuck Stanley

by Chuck Stanley It was September 9, 1513. The place was, and still is, a meadowland on a low hill just south of the village of Branxton, Northumberland, UK.  If one looks at satellite images of the area, you can … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: FLUTTERBYS

Posted on July 7, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.  – C. Day Lewis We are in deep summer now in the Northern Hemisphere. Summer brings abundance and sunlit hours that give … Continue reading →

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Now the US has a MAGA hymn… and some military show-of-force in East Asia is anticipated

Posted on July 4, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers …teleports behind you … ‘Nothing personal, kid’. Trump: This is infinity here. It could be infinity. We really don’t know. But it could be. This White House occupant tweets out his MAGA theme song. He doesn’t even honor … Continue reading →

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Trump is more Doris Day Presidential than Modern Day Presidential

Posted on July 2, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers While on the campaign trail, Trump said he didn’t want to act presidential “quite yet,” but promised at that he would become “so presidential that you people will be so bored.” “At some point, I’m going to … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: EXTRAVAGANT

Posted on June 30, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There is just a breath of Purtianism lurking in most American poetry. We admire the winnowing of excess words, the spareness of poets like Frost and Sandburg and the prose of Hemingway and Steinbeck. American poets … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: ONYX

Posted on June 23, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I sometimes wonder if what critics condemn in the writers they review are really the motes and beams which blind them in their own work. When reviewer Peter Craft “damns with faint praise” the first published … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: PILGRIM-SOUL

Posted on June 16, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Today is Bloomsday, the day in 1904 that the events in the James Joyce novel Ulysses take place. I confess I have only read pieces of it, because it’s so densely written, and some of it I … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: MIDLIFE

Posted on June 9, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I guess it’s human nature to try to make things fit, whether it’s putting on roof tiles, or papers we need to file, or sorting the animal kingdom into family, genus and species – most of … Continue reading →

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post-Trump, how should the cinema treat #TrumpRussia

Posted on June 5, 2017 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers   The NSA analysis does not draw conclusions about whether the interference had any effect on the election’s outcome and concedes that much remains unknown about the extent of the hackers’ accomplishments. However, the report raises the … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: WINDHEART

Posted on June 2, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD My father’s favorite poem was “Ulysses,” written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (link below). However, his favorite poet was John Masefield (1878-1967), for his many poems about the sea. Coincidentally, the two men were Poet Laureates of the … Continue reading →

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