Art, Activism, and Gingerbread

A city stroll east across north end of Central Park and the Harlem Meer in brisk and windy November weather. Still lots of color in New York City parks.  Destination: The Museum of the City of New York on 5th Avenue and specifically the Richard Rauschenberg exhibit. Looking south across Harlem Meer Looking west across … Read more

Simple Pleasures and Stickybeaking

Stickybeak  NOUN: an intrusive, meddlesome, busybody, nosy parker who sticks their nose (beak) into other people’s business. The act of stickybeaking. VERB: to snoop or pry into other’s people’s business. This was a delightful new word for me this week although it’s clearly common currency in Australia and New Zealand. I came across it first … Read more

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Did you have a special place as a child? Perhaps somewhere secret and magical? A corner of a city park, a place in the garden, somewhere under the trees or behind the shed?  Do you have one now? For the artist Paul Nash his first special place was Kensington Gardens, in west London, near where … Read more