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SchragWall: July 2016
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Thursday, July 21, 2016. A Dangling Conversation About Chuck Close and An Exploration of the Self. It all started when my wife sent me a link to a July 13th essay by Wil S. Hylton in the New York Time. The essay is titled The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close. I like the theory, posed by the author, about Close's fractured identity as he ages and especially as both his mind and body wither. More specifically, on the one hand the brightly colored ("lurid? Self portraits affirm life at the end; on th...
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SchragWall: Kites of Darkness
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Monday, September 5, 2016. A coronet of consciousness. Circles the two o'clock hour. Born aloft by kites of darkness. Drifting on a tether between. Sunset and first dawn. Impervious to the hours past. Or morning's impending obligations. Driven perhaps by blinking numerals. It nudges my eyelids open. And requires an auditory sweep. Of the immediate environs. Born more of curiosity than concern,. It resolves the darker pools of shadow. And blinking points of light. Into the expected dips and edges. Perhaps...
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SchragWall: October 2016
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Friday, October 7, 2016. Halloween is looming. Orange and black is the new black. Strange creatures populate every commercial cranny. And people who are old enough to know better are asking themselves, “What will I be for Halloween? 8221; I assume that come the 31st, the Undead will figure prominently in a variety of displays. They are very hot media properties despite their questionable existence in the real world. Speech. Let me explain. Do you really “hate” those people, or do you fear. What your worl...
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SchragWall: Retiring in Garlic or Clover
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016. Retiring in Garlic or Clover. And so what do you do? Conversation allowing, this question follows swiftly upon most introductions. That is unless the answer has been supplied in the introduction as in:. This is my friend, Delilah. She is an agent with the CIA.". So what do you do? Suddenly becomes more complicated. But while multiple occupations are one complicating factor in the. 8220;what do you do” game, "no occupation. They smirk. "I'm retired! Was a punishment. When. Doin' not...
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SchragWall: August 2016
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Sunday, August 28, 2016. Expressive Memory, Transcendence, Dark Matter and All That Jazz. Over on Distilled Harmony [ www.distilledharmony.com. I assert that “ever since I was a small child I have been forever ambushed by moments of pure harmony.” I do not mean to imply that I exist in a constant harmonic state - would that it were so! Rather, those moments of pure harmony have always been transient impressions - like a moment of extended slow motion. When I was younger my reaction was often “Whew! Far m...
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SchragWall: Expressive Memory, Transcendence, Dark Matter and All That Jazz
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Sunday, August 28, 2016. Expressive Memory, Transcendence, Dark Matter and All That Jazz. Over on Distilled Harmony [ www.distilledharmony.com. I assert that “ever since I was a small child I have been forever ambushed by moments of pure harmony.” I do not mean to imply that I exist in a constant harmonic state - would that it were so! Rather, those moments of pure harmony have always been transient impressions - like a moment of extended slow motion. When I was younger my reaction was often “Whew! Far m...
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SchragWall: A False Dichotomy
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Friday, October 7, 2016. Halloween is looming. Orange and black is the new black. Strange creatures populate every commercial cranny. And people who are old enough to know better are asking themselves, “What will I be for Halloween? 8221; I assume that come the 31st, the Undead will figure prominently in a variety of displays. They are very hot media properties despite their questionable existence in the real world. Speech. Let me explain. Do you really “hate” those people, or do you fear. What your worl...
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SchragWall: High in the Mist Above Quail Ridge
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Sunday, November 13, 2016. High in the Mist Above Quail Ridge. I, rather, search out nature documentaries hoping to hear the echo of Jacque Cousteau: "Here hidden within the mysterious depths . . ." or some modern pretender's hushed whisper, "Our trail camera has caught the first glimpse in 50 years of this creature, long given up as extinct. . .". Snugged under my arm was a copy of Color Me Chilled Out. How good to see you! What can I do for you? I took your class two years ago! 8221; I say instead.
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SchragWall: Changing Holiday Shopping
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Sunday, November 6, 2016. Not words we usually associate with holiday shopping, but. Color Me Chilled Out. Can change that perception. Color Me Chilled Out: Coloring Pages for Meditation and Relaxation. By Robert Schrag is a coloring book for adults designed specifically to get us to those calm, peaceful and serene places in our mind that we associate with the holidays, but which seem to get driven out by the relentless commercialization that swiftly changes “Happy Holidays! 8221; into “Bah! 8220;Imagine...
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SchragWall: May 2016
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016. The mid-May edition of New Scientist. Features articles on "information." Something called "Maxwell's Demon" plays a large role in one article. It seems that James Clerk Maxwell, the 1880s darling of the posh physics set, constructed a mind experiment to demonstrate how information could move from an intellectual, mental construct to a physical reality. That the various affiliated groups offer for their actions. It is a binary assessment: affiliation and action. As you might gues...