Harbor Lights: the world after Measure A
Measure A has come and gone. The real decision on zoning the AES property, lies somewhere out in the future. The property is zoned for a power plant or a park. No one who understands the reality of the situation believes it will remain that way. The no power plant leaders will probably begin telling […]
Getting Near to Vermeer
With Vermeer, as with Raphael and Mozart, we are inches closer to the Divine when in the presence of his work. Perhaps it’s our eternal sunshine that draws them, but periodically a Vermeer painting will vacation in California; a few of them live in New York and Washington, D.C., also Boston and Philadelphia, but pretty […]
The symbolism of Vatican smoke
In that vast cosmos of symbols that is the Roman Catholic Church, one of the more curious appearing at this time is the binary code used to alert the world if a new pope has been elected or not: the color of smoke from a temporary chimney above the Sistine Chapel. White for yes, black […]