A month ago, I visited the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska with Eldest Son and his partner. It’s hard to believe it was that long ago when if feels like it was just a couple of weeks ago. I’m not sure where summer is going, but it’s certainly going quickly. As much as I like history and art museums, I am super enamored with public sites that feature nature and greenhouses. The Arboretum, or the…
I recently finished reading “The Creative Act: A Way of Being,” a book by record producer Rick Rubin. A particular sentence on page 319 jumped out at me: “The world is only as free as it allows its artists to be.” Given last week’s news about Paramount axing “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” most likely due to Paramount capitulating to the Trump administration so their merger goes through with Skydance Media, we need…
My last update on the Cyber Cleanse I have been conducting was at the end of March. What have I been up to since then? It’s a bit like a tedious soap opera, with a few surprises as I go along. Once I cleaned out my primary Gmail accounts, I needed to sift through all my other online accounts, those for which I was using these email accounts as the user name. Let me say…