Why do you keep, you pretty damn spender,Hoarding your looks and letting them sit there?Nature gave you a whole lot to render,But you’re acting like beauty just ain’t fair. Look at yourself: you’ve got a wild-ass loanOf grace and charm that was never really yours;You’re just a middleman, sitting on stolen gold,Supposed to pass it … Continue reading Money Don’t Multiply on Its Own (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 4 for Gen X)
T.A.E.’s Book Review – The Fall of Arthur by Christopher & J.R.R. Tolkien
A Heroic World Breaking at the Seams The Fall of Arthur is one of Tolkien’s most revealing unfinished works: a poem that feels at once ancient and strangely new, as though an Old English singer had wandered into the ruins of Camelot. Christopher Tolkien’s editorial labor makes the fragment legible as both a literary artifact … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – The Fall of Arthur by Christopher & J.R.R. Tolkien
Gothic Leanings
Early this Spring, I took several pictures of the dead milkweed plants in a nearby field. I’ve always found these beautiful and used to use them in …Gothic Leanings
The Darkness Inside
Ok, she’s a little creepy. Perhaps it’s my dark mood of late, but I felt that she was hiding a very sinister mind behind those empty eyes. Whatever …The Darkness Inside
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #450 – It’s A Little Chilly Out
It’s A Little Chilly Out Musings of the Artists Mind Why did she leave the house without a scarf or proper jacket? What pushed her out into this … 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #450 – It’s A Little Chilly Out
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #102: The Mexican
The Mexican: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Following a discovery of Oaxacan art, I …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #102: The Mexican
Beauty on Borrowed Time: Legacy, Selfhood, and the Ethics of Youth in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 4
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 4 is one of the clearest early statements in the sequence of “Fair Youth” sonnets, and it works like both a love poem and a stern moral lecture. Its central idea is deceptively simple: beauty is a gift, but if it is hoarded and not passed on, it becomes waste. Shakespeare turns that … Continue reading Beauty on Borrowed Time: Legacy, Selfhood, and the Ethics of Youth in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 4
T.A.E.’s Book Review – The Fall of Númenor by Christopher & J.R.R. Tolkien
The Tragic Architecture of Númenor: Power, Mortality, and the Cost of Pride A small correction first: The Fall of Númenor is a 2022 volume edited by Brian Sibley, assembling J.R.R. Tolkien’s Second Age writings from across the legendarium. That editorial shape matters, because the book is not a conventional novel but a carefully arranged epic … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – The Fall of Númenor by Christopher & J.R.R. Tolkien
Forrest Sentinel
On a recent trip to the Laurentians, I was walking in the forest behind the pace we were staying. I came across this I posing sentinel standing in a …Forrest Sentinel
Really? Sure!
Have you ever felt incredulous at someone’s question to you? You know the question I’m talking about. It’s the bottom pusher question that send me …Really? Sure!