An excellent Ansel Adams retrospective at the Longmont museum. So inspiring! Many viewers are familiar with the Adams’ heroic, high-contrast prints from the 1970s. Much less well known are the intimate prints that the artist crafted earlier in his career. Ansel Adams: Early Works focuses on these masterful small prints from the 1920s into the…
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a thousand crossings – sally mann
Sally Mann is one of the pre-eminent photographers of the 20th century. This book is based on a Sally Mann exhibition that explores her photographs of family, landscapes, race relations and death/decay. The book starts with John Glenday’s poem “Landscape with Flying Man” I read about him that was given wings.His father fixed those wings…
the razor’s edge – w somerset maugam
Maugham’s greatest and most enduring popular novel that tells the story of Larry Darrell, an attractive and enigmatic American who forsakes the comforts of bourgeois society to live a life dedicated to pursuit of truth and meaning. The books starts with a quote from the Katha Upanishad : “The sharp edge of a razor is…
vegan cookbooks
The Plant Based Journey Thug Kitchen Energy Balls Veganomicon Cook, Eat, Thrive Street Vegan The Homemade Vegan Pantry
tao te ching – favorite passages
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness All can know good as good only because there is evil. The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows in places people reject and so is like the Tao. Better…
walks in boulder, colorado
Today was a great day to go walking in Boulder. 2 walks – morning and afternoon! “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky” — Rabindranath Tagore “To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are…
the lines of my hand – robert frank
A sad retrospective on the work and life of Robert Frank, one of my favorite photographers. Unlike “Americans” which is an uplifting and intriguing collection, this book draws you in and leaves you depressed at the end. I think the photographs parallel the difficulties he had in his life with the deaths of his daughter…
the poetry of zen – sam hamill & jp seaton
Excellent compilation of Chinese and Japanese Zen poems. Some examples: I stand here and watch the people of this world: all against one and one against all, angry, arguing, plotting and scheming. Then one day, suddenly, they die. And each gets one plot of ground: four feet wide, six feet long. If you can scheme…
leonardo da vinci
Excellent exhibition about this original renaissance man at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Why is it that in the 1500s there were a lot more of these superhumans than there are today. 2 causes come to mind – specialization and lack of boredom. We have become too specialized in today’s society “an expert…
hour of the wolf – paul lipton
Paul is a retired attorney and lives in Boulder, CO. This is his first book. His second book – “these five breaths” talks about assessing relationships at the end of life. Hour of the wolf is about his mind howling in the darkness at 2 AM. His parents died young. As he approached his 50s…