Speed of Life

Gregg Chadwick Monk Station 30”x30” oil on linen 2020 For 20 years, I have painted artworks inspired by the aspirational nature of Buddhism. "Gregg Chadwick paints scenes from the life of Asia that reminds us of the monastic life of pilgrimage which has been all but lost in the West." -Ratnagarbha and Thomas Jones from "Urthona: Journal of Buddhism and the Arts" Issue 20 Many of my new paintings in 2020 continue this theme.  More art at  The Saffron Road Please join me for the fifth edition in Santa Monica, California hosted at the historic Barker Hangar presented by the world's leading online art gallery Saatchi Art. The Other Art Fair showcases work by over 100 artists artists, each hand picked by a selection committee of art world experts. Please click  here  for free tickets and more info.          The Other Art Fair  Los Angeles        ...

Health officials wanted to issue a warning to senior citizens urging them not to fly due to the #coronavirus , but they were overruled by @realDonaldTrump Trump. https://t.co/xdC3VDwvAB via @politicususa — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) March 8, 2020

Mazzy Star co-founder David Roback, leader of L.A.'s "Paisley Underground," dies at 61 #RIP  https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-02-25/david-roback-mazzy-star-dead

What is today you ask? Oh, it’s only the best day of the year. Happy #GalentinesDay ! Video from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

"The great question the Constitution tasks Senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. Yes, he did. The president asked a foreign government to investigate his political rival. The president withheld vital military funds from that government to press it to do so. The president delayed funds for an American ally at war with Russian invaders. The president’s purpose was personal and political. Accordingly, the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust. What he did was not “perfect.” No, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security, and our fundamental values. Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine. It’s what autocrats do."  - Mitt Romney      Feb 5, 2020 What we teach in resistance courses -- real r...

https://t.co/U53AQ72wHI via @GIPHY pic.twitter.com/FLxJZ763Bq — errigalgold (@errigalgold) February 5, 2020 Last night @realDonaldTrump came before Congress and the American people and made up a series of lies. That was unbecoming, violated tradition & was offensive. And right now the Administration is still suing to eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions. #WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/nXE1sFk2bc — Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 5, 2020 What we teach in resistance courses -- real resistance, not hashtag resistance -- is that calibrated acts of defiance build moral for the populace, and have a vital psychological value. Pelosi. Romney. Acts of defiance. — Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) February 5, 2020

Starbucks unveiled a heartwarming commercial featuring a transgender person using their preferred name.

Throughout February, we're celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth by recognizing the Bruins who have made, and continue to shape, our shared history. #BlackHistoryMonth2020 #BlackExcellence pic.twitter.com/KjjKkoo6yN — UCLA (@UCLA) February 1, 2020 To highlight the perseverance of Africans from 1619 to the present day, @UCBerkeleyLib has selected 40 films, including 4 documentaries, to acknowledge & commemorate the many voices that have contributed to American history. 📽️ #BlackHistoryMonth #400years https://t.co/TMqe0WPVfm — UC Berkeley (@UCBerkeley) February 5, 2020

Now This is Good News! #Hamilfilm https://t.co/1o1lgTB99Y — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) February 3, 2020 . @Disney to release @HamiltonMusical with the Original Broadway Cast. Filmed on stage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. In a theater near you. October 15, 2021. #Hamilfilm pic.twitter.com/93v3KLUdjp — Hamilton (@HamiltonMusical) February 3, 2020

When the Super Bowl comes back around, I always think of Prince performing Purple Rain in a howling storm. #GoNiners

The Senate chaplain warned the Senate in prayer today, saying to God, “They can’t ignore you and get away with it. We always reap what we sow.” Does McConnell recognize that he & the other Senators & this nation will reap what they are sowing? — Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) January 31, 2020 Chaplain shade is the best shade... https://t.co/DFGnvQPAg8 — Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) January 31, 2020

THIS is the PETA #SuperBowl ad the @NFL apparently didn’t want you to see and pressured @FOXSports to snub. It envisions a world where respect is the right of every being and pays homage to Kaepernick and movements rejecting injustice. https://t.co/kD1osnKhuX #EndSpeciesism pic.twitter.com/clXzU79aZV — PETA (@peta) January 31, 2020 PETA #SuperBowl ad the @NFL   apparently didn’t want you to see and pressured @FOXSports   to snub. It envisions a world where respect is the right of every being and pays homage to Kaepernick and movements rejecting injustice. http:// peta.vg/2plb #EndSpeciesism

To repeat my metaphor from earlier on @MSNBC & translate the Trump impeachment to regular-people-ese, say your state had a natural disaster, congress approved aid, and the president told your governor he could only get the $ if he announced an investigation of the lieut governor, — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 25, 2020 who plans to run for president in the upcoming cycle. It's about the president using governmental powers unique to him, for the sole purpose of getting himself re-elected. Now add that the natural disaster put national security assets at stake. That's what Trump did re Ukraine. — Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 25, 2020

"When a man, unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents... [but] despotic... may justly be suspected that his object is to [undermine the Government itself]" Hamilton, quoted by Schiff now — Ari Melber (@AriMelber) January 22, 2020

What are you doing to positively effect your community on this #DayOfService ? #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/PLPRT8TCXx — NAACP (@NAACP) January 20, 2020

. @Eminem put out a powerful song and video #Darkness w/ a call to put "an end to senseless gun violence." [Chorus] I don't wanna be alone, I don't wanna be I don't wanna be alone in the darkness I don't wanna be alone in the darkness I don't wanna be alone in the darkness anymore (Hello darkness, my old friend) [Verse 1] Here I am, alone again Can't get out of this hole I'm in It's like the walls are closin' in You can't help me, no one can I can feel these curtains closin' I go to open 'em But something pulls 'em closed again (Hello darkness, my old friend) Feels like I'm loathing in Las Vegas Haven't got the vaguest why I'm so lost But I'd make you this small wager If I bet you I'll be in tomorrow's paper Who would the odds favor? (Hello darkness, my old friend) I'm so much like my father, you would think that I knew him I keep pacin...

"Like many before, I respectfully kneeled during Nat’l Anthem because, 'No one is free until we are all free,'" she wrote, referencing former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and citing a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'Teacher of the Year' kneels during anthem at college football championship attended by Trump - - https://abcn.ws/3agOwBs 

🎶Behold, 'Impeachment Polka' - a forgotten piece of music composed in 1868 during the impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Charles D. Blake and resuscitated by @pbump 🎶 Performed beautifully for the Post by Michael Adcock of the @WashConMusic pic.twitter.com/OlTGeRVcVt — Zach Purser Brown (@zachjourno) January 16, 2020 Historical Music relevant for today. @realDonaldTrump listen to the "Impeachment Polka" #IMPOTUS #ImpeachedForLife https://t.co/9oblD1oxTO — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) January 16, 2020

I read the news today. Oh Boy! 

What is at risk here is the very idea of America: That we are a nation of laws, not of men. Those who excuse the President's conduct because of partisan loyalty betray their oath of office. But I intend to uphold mine. I voted to impeach Donald J. Trump. pic.twitter.com/4qvlOag9N5 — Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 19, 2019 Tonight, the House voted to impeach the President of the United States. We all feel the weight of history in this moment, but President Trump's grave misconduct left us no choice but to impeach. Now it is incumbent on the Senate to conduct a fair trial. No one is above the law. pic.twitter.com/H6CUq506gS — Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 19, 2019 Thank you @RepAdamSchiff https://t.co/OcyLP2WB3F — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) December 19, 2019 Someone said the Republican Party used to be a party of principle. But here’s the question: what principles led to the party producing & voting for Trump? This is not just an indic...

Marc's song introduction is inspiring!

When French opera singers go on strike (Turn volume up) https://t.co/3zpRId5vRj — Sophie Pedder (@PedderSophie) December 17, 2019

#MollyPease 's interpretation of #JimenaSarno 's installation "Score for the Near Future" was beautiful! ✨ 🔊 Tomorrow is the last day to see the sound and sculpture installation.  👁⏳Jimena Sarno will be present from 1-4pm at our Main Gallery with hot cider! pic.twitter.com/m3yeUj4q19 — 18thStreetArtsCenter (@18thStreetArts) December 14, 2019 Molly Pease used song to open up hidden aspects of of Jimena Sarno 's installation "Score for the Near Future" at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica last night. Such a moving performance. Saturday, December 14, 2019 is the last day to see the sound and sculpture installation.   Jimena Sarno will be present from 1-4pm at the Main Gallery with hot cider! 18th Street Campus 1639 18th Street Santa Monica, CA 90404

Love this card from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Reminds me again of the many holiday seasons that I have spent in Japan. Especially the year that I spent chasing Hiroshige in Tokyo.  

“Adults didn’t take care of these problems, so we have to take care of them, and not be like older generations in their complacency.” - Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg Is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year https://t.co/ukEge4JAGl — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) December 11, 2019 “Well I am telling you there is hope. I have seen it. But it does not come from governments or corporations. It comes from the people.” Here’s a small part from my speech today at the #cop25 in Madrid. pic.twitter.com/Dg8pz969yS — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 11, 2019 Wow, this is unbelievable! I share this great honour with everyone in the #FridaysForFuture movement and climate activists everywhere. #climatestrike https://t.co/2t2JyA6AnM pic.twitter.com/u4JUD4cgCz — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 11, 2019 “No one is too small to have an impact and change the world.” Congratulations to Time’s Person of the Year @GretaThunberg who continues to prove just how tru...