The Journey is One-Way

Sarah Manguso, photographed at home in Los Angeles. Photograph: Barry J. Holmes for the Observer I read Alice Gregory‘s review of Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, by Sarah Manguso in the New Yorker a few months ago. I knew I would love this slim slip of a book, which I do. Gregory’s review is […]

Beyond the Parrots

The headline in the Parrot’s Weekly read: Titantic Sunk. No Parrots Hurt. –Katharine Whitehorn, quoted in The Artful Universe by John D. Barrow Oh the power of a point of view…Parrots may not be your thing, but something is. Washington’s poet laureate Elizabeth Austen speaks to our proclivity to narrowbanding in her piece, How poetry […]

Tuttle Truths

Richard Tuttle (Photo: PBS) The most reliable speaker about art and art making from where I sit: Richard Tuttle. In this interview with Ross Simonini in Art in America, he touches on many of the themes that are all over my writings on Slow Muse. Here are a few that are particularly important to me […]

Feeling a Presence

Meditation garden, Osmosis Sanctuary Weather ran the curriculum in Boston this winter. The coursework included deep dives into acceptance, patience, stoic detachment and mastery in moving to Plan B (or C or D) quickly. And not getting angry or taking any of it personally. I learned a lot, but it is that course you hope […]

Hunkering Down

My street in Brookline Parking lot at my studio in South Boston South Boston icicle fest Just about everyone I know in New England has been pushed to the edge of the weather tolerance spectrum. We’re already in the red zone and now another blizzard with a foot of snow is heading at us this […]