When in Need of Wisdom

In the movie Six Degrees of Separation, Stockard Channing’s character, Louise “Ouisa” Kittredge, the sophisticated spouse to Flan, a wealthy international art dealer played by Donald Sutherland, blithely narrates for him as he rotates a two-sided Kandinsky on a vertical axis: “Chaos…Control. Chaos…Control…” Around and around he shows the double canvas, one side painted wildly … Continue reading When in Need of Wisdom →

Bread in the Desert, Part 1

I long for the desert. In the desert, the blessing of life, its humid breath, was easy to discern. In between the rocks that outlined the dusty trails, trails that were scratched anonymously into mountainsides, the ones you ambled for no reason other than because you felt you must, the ones that almost made you … Continue reading Bread in the Desert, Part 1 →