Speed of Life

“A 15th-century painting is the deposit of a social relationship.” -Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in 15th-Century Italy , 1972 ...

Matthew Hinton/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A storefront, boarded-up to protect against the coming storm, awaits Hurricane Gustav in...

- As Carl Pope of the Sierra Club says, “No one is closer to the oil industry than Governor Palin.” Biologists who have studied polar bear...

" I saw Obama's speech tonight at the Democratic Convention in Denver as a political masterpiece. As I had a chance to say on CNN a...

Full Text: “I Have A Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. August 28, 1963, Washington DC I am happy to join with you today in what will go down ...

Sunset at the Esalen Institute This past week I was honored to lead a workshop on creativity with writer Phil Cousineau and writer/musician ...

As the Democratic Convention in Denver begins, Drew Westen in the Huffington Post describes how Obama can effectively attack John McCain b...

Chet Edwards Sources are saying that Democratic Congressman Chet Edwards from Texas could be Obama's choice for VP? Is this a feint? Bid...

As the Beijing Olympics nears its finale, I can't help but think about the conflict between the Olympic ideal and the Chinese state spon...

(Bela Szandelszky/AP Photo) Breaking info from the newswires: "Georgians with their eyes covered sit atop of a Russian armored personne...

Hans Heiner Buhr "view-old-tbilisi-thief" digital collage 2007 - image courtesy the artist As the small country of Georgia continu...

Gregg Chadwick Barack Obama 48"x36" oil on linen 2008 "Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we ar...

Gregg Chadwick Where Elephants Weep 60"x50" oil on linen 2008

Hans Heiner Buhr "Big Horse Thief" 125 X 90 cm mixed media on a collage of Caucasus Maps - image courtesy the artist As Russian fo...

Crowd Awaits Obama's Speech in Berlin Remarks of Senator Barack Obama (as prepared for delivery) “A World that Stands as One” July 24th,...