JD December, 2008
The View from Our Window
The conservative (with an eighteenth century, Burkean C) blogger and journalist Andrew Sullivan is always interestingly independent of thought. (He voted for Kerry in 2004, supported Obama, and wants Bush, Cheney, et al. tried for war crimes.) He has a feature on his blog, The Daily Dish, called “The View from Your Window,” in which […]
The Spring Season
The image below was shot by Julia on Lake Titicaca in Peru during her most recent photo workshop, this past June. We were on one of the Lake’s floating islands, constructed by the inhabitants out of the reeds that grow out of the water. These Uros people are Aymara speakers, the language of the dominant […]
In Not Out
I’ve made the drive from Los Angeles to Idyllwild or Palm Springs or Palm Desert more than a few times, but these days in Banning have been a reminder of the difference between observation and experience. Passing by in a car, looking out through a window (not an unpleasant experience for a tracking-shot-impassioned cinephile), beyond […]
Job Among the RVites
There was a man in the land of RV, whose name was Newbie; and that man was imperfect and uptight, and one that feared Ill Fortune, and eschewed the vain attempt. Now there was a day when the sons of Ill Fortune came to present themselves before the SOB, and Murphy came also among them. […]