Why Improving & Increasing Vocabulary is Important

Why Improving & Increasing Vocabulary is Important A subject I have always been passionate about, particularly after my Grandfather once said using foul language is a sign of a limited vocabulary and therefore a limited education.

From "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

                                                                                                        

Iranian Street Art Finds Its Way To L.A. - The Picture Show Blog : NPR

Art from around the world!

Iranian Street Art Finds Its Way To L.A. - The Picture Show Blog : NPR

Nice 67 Y.O. Male Has Brush with Mortality

Some thoughts by Garrison Keillor on the Health Care debate. (Click on the link title above.)

"What I Understood," by Katha Pollitt

The Mind-Body Problem) --                                                          

When I was a child I understood everything
about, for example, futility.
Standing for hours on the hot asphalt outfield, trudging for balls
I'd ask myself, how many times will I have to perform this pointless task, and all the others?
I knew about snobbery, too, and cruelty—
for children are snobbish and cruel—
and loneliness: in restaurants the dignity and shame of solitary diners disabled me,
and when my grandmother screamed at me, "Someday you'll know what it's like!"
I knew she was right, the way I knew
about the single rooms my teachers went home to,
the pictures on the dresser, the hoard of chocolates,
and that there was no God, and that I would die.
All this I understood, no one needed to tell me.
the only thing I didn't understand
was how in a world whose predominant characteristics
are futility, cruelty, loneliness, disappointment
people are saved every day
by a sparrow, a foghorn, a grassblade, a tablecloth.
This year I'll be
thirty-nine, and I still don't understand it.

White House Cautious Over NEA Politics Flap : NPR

White House Cautious Over NEA Politics Flap : NPR

The eternal conflict between the arts and Washington support.

Siesta - Philip, John and Tilly

Oil on Canvass

4' X 5'

Longboat Key Mangrove

Oil on Canvass

18" X 18"

Animal Portraiture

Each year I donate a portrait to be auctioned off  at the "Boxer Bash" for the Florida Boxer Rescue. The first year I completed this portrait of Sampson.

"Sampson"

Oil on Canvass

18" X 18"

Florida Boxer Rescue

Series: Lost in Translation

Quick Point II: Flotsam

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for. " - Georgia O'Keefe