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Hyggelig 3: From Counterculture Colors to the Black Diamond

May 11th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Europe, General, literature and poetry, Popular Culture, Society at Large, Travel

Christianshavn is a relic of 17th-century development. Thus its shape is that of a segment of a circle with the København Havn (the redundant “Merchants Harbor Port”) representing the chord and Stadsgraven Canal forming the arc.  Originally a moat protecting the...
Hyggelig 2: Bulls and Dragons

Hyggelig 2: Bulls and Dragons

May 9th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Europe, General, Travel, visual arts

My Dear One pointed it out to me on our first stroll: “Mr. Softee.” The spire of the of Børsen, the Old Stock Exchange, with its quartet of dragons, tails entwined, does indeed look at first glance like an attenuated tower of soft-serve ice cream. Above the dragons,...
Portraits of a Presidency

Portraits of a Presidency

February 15th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Family, General, Politics, visual arts, Women

On February 12, 2018, the portraits of the 44th President and First Lady of the United States were unveiled. How do I like them? Let me, as it were, count the ways. The paintings are modern. The artists who made them (Kehinde Wiley, b. 1977, and Amy Sherald, b. 1973)...
Book # 4 in 2018: “Leonardo da Vinci” by Walter Isaacson

Book # 4 in 2018: “Leonardo da Vinci” by Walter Isaacson

January 17th, 2018 | Architecture and Design, Matters of the Spirit, visual arts

My brother the Boston Lawyer mentioned a couple months ago that he was reading Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 2017). I thought that was an interesting choice for him, a little off-road considering his normal preferences.  When My Dear One...
On The Erie Canal 3: The Saints That Guided Us

On The Erie Canal 3: The Saints That Guided Us

August 26th, 2017 | Architecture and Design, General, transportation, Travel, United States

The more we travel, the longer our list of patron saints becomes. When our divinities—not all of whom, we believe, have made themselves known– bestow grace, we appreciate our good fortune. When they are cranky or generally feeling punitive, appeasement is not an...
On the Erie Canal 2: Not Quite As Expected

On the Erie Canal 2: Not Quite As Expected

August 22nd, 2017 | Architecture and Design, Travel, United States

I don’t know, because I have never used a dating site, but this must be what it feels like when you show up for that introductory coffee and the person waiting for you has only the vaguest (and not in a good way) resemblance to the picture that originally caught your...
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