Julie Kessler

Brings to mind ... back in 2001 when the Taliban destroyed the monumental Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan.

Ben Shahn, Integration, Supreme Court, 1963, tempera on paper

Exhibit alert: Ben Shahn, On Non-Conformity. At the Jewish Museum in NYC, through October 26, 2025. (Ben Shahn, Integration, Supreme Court, 1963, tempera on paper)

Exhibit alert: Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson. At the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, now through February 8, 2026

School daze self portrait. Oil on canvas. The things you find during spring cleaning...

YouTube video by Brut America French Senator criticizes Trump

www.youtube.com/watch?v=unSS...

Yes but .... He just voted to censure Al Green for standing up to the President! What the?!

YouTube video by CUNYQueensborough KHC: Conspiracy of Goodness: Life in Le Chambon

How a whole village in rural France gave shelter to refugees during World War II and inspired resistance. m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4EC...

Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888; Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.

Job leads welcome! Writing, editorial, layout, design, NYC area. Or, in desperation, I will teach composition at the college level again.

Well, as an employee of a non-profit that studies ways to lift people out of poverty, mostly for the government, I've just been laid off. Because our government does not give a flying fuck about poor people, or incarcerated people, or diversity, equity and inclusion.

Or anybody but themselves.

So, um, what hospitals are left for the East Village and West Village? Anything?

59th Street Bridge at Sunset, oil on board, 18x24". I come here when the world is too much. Feel your feet, breathe.

Pencil and wash sketch. In the cafe at the Museum of the City of New York, looking west at Central Park.

Pencil and wash sketch, in the cafe at the Museum of the City of New York, looking west at Central Park.

Loyalists. It was ever thus.

The 'Val-Dieu Apocalypse, ms page 17333, c. 1320-1330, French

♫ Doing my laundry ...
What a lovely way of saying
How much you love me ♫

Thank you!!

Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer in a Sea of Fog (1818). Great metaphor, right? The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an exhibit of his moody, romantic paintings: Caspar David Friedrich, The Soul of Nature. Through May 11, 2025. metmuseum.org/exhibitions/caspar-david-friedrich-the-soul-of-nature

I wonder what they're saying.

Good, thanks for your efforts. We want the Israeli hostages to be released. And can you also protest Musk and Trump's shutting down of USAID that (along with other humanitarian aid) gives help to Gaza? That's a humanitarian crisis too. Let's open our hearts to all the victims of war.

Bunny the sheepdoodle, be still my heart! 💘

But there are lots of us!

They don't care, they'll just fly to Mars with all the money.

Close up on an ancient plate featuring a light pink octopus with bright eyes and a smile. The octopus has two arms waving above its head in a friendly manner.

hi

I love this approach to interdependence.....

As a full-time caregiver who doesn't work for wages, this means so much to me. Can't do it alone! Plus I watch my nonagenarian caregivee suffer guilt from needing care. As if the situation wasn't hard enough without feeling unworthy. Thank you for a better, kinder perspective.

Silver lining? He won't resign/retire/whatever until the Dems are back to replace him. In four years. Ugh.

How sweet! (And I'll be right over.)