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E.B. White & Winding the Clock

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Of late things have been hard. 

My heart is broken. Broken again, for the 3477th time this life.

"Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time," wrote E. B. White, to a despairing Mr. Nadeau. The actual first paragraph of White's letter said:

"As long as there is one upright man..."

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Of the season, and a milestone

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My latest on Medium Online is "The End of the Beginning: Eight of Sabin Howard's Doughboys Get Ready to Go Back to Europe." 

I wrote it to share--to celebrate--a milestone: Sabin and his stalwart team have finished principal sculpture on the first grouping of eleven figures from A Soldier's Journey. 

I'm so proud of our sculptors Sabin, Charlie, and "Raymond." They've worked with focus and dedication...

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Love and chaos in the time of the coronavirus

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The world is rife with panic and pandemic.

People are sick. People are dying. The COVID-19 respiratory illness is sweeping across the globe. No place will be spared.

Italy is quarantining. Have the Italians stopped their millennia-old practice of bussing on both sides of the face in greeting? 

I bet they have. Kissing is for the inviolate.

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Art and Representation

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Author Traci L. Slatton muses on art and representation, ely concerning Sabin Howard's Bust of Ceres sculpture.

My husband Sabin Howard can sculpt. Think Carpeaux, Canova, or Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Think Michelangelo. He says, "Art represents us. How do we want to be represented?" It's a fair question...

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The Gottman Institute: The Art & Science of Love

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Two days of extraordinary learning at the Gottman Institute workshop. The first day focused on building the ground of being of love through Drs. John and Julie Gottman's research-based techniques. The second day addressed conflict and techniques for repair after regrettable incidents.

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Factual Error in The New Yorker: Is this how fake news starts?

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Author Traci L. Slatton writes about how The New Yorker misquoted her husband sculptor Sabin Howard, creating a factual error. Dedicated to all the women whose ideas have been misattributed to a man and who were told to leave it be and not to rock the boat.

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