In my Thursday, August 2, 2012 post titled “The Faceless Paintings,” I called attention to what I thought was fact regarding our artist Tibor Jankay having never sold a painting in his lifetime. For those of you who read the story, you may recall he regarded his paintings as family. You may also recall how…
This “white paper” was stimulated by an actor’s comments having to do with the Harvey and Catherine Kalmenson work ethic. The actor in question has known the two of us for many, many years. With an all-knowing sinister look decorating his very well known countenance, he extended his hand to mine, gripped it firmly, and…
Yesterday was over fifty years ago. Two paintings that hang in the entry of our home act as my constant memory of a past lived by two people whose love was the force that allowed them to survive the depths of human indignity. Whole families disappeared from neighborhoods. Driven by desperation, their will to survive…
We all know about the speed of sound and light. As we enter and go through school, at least one time or another the scientific formulas of each traveling rate are readily explained. What we are never aware of at an early age is how short our life on this planet really is. Each and…
Preface Hallucinations. Have you ever tossed and turned during the night knowing the cause was being over tired and wiped out? That was I some few days ago. Our business is so damn strange; it always has been. We can sit and stare at the walls wondering whether anyone exists out there in the realm…
Back in the days when I lived in Kid-Dom… (You know… like childhood but you didn’t know that… I mean I didn’t know that.) A time when you were under the impression that all of your discoveries were yours alone; it was kind of like inventing the wheel. In order to draw a correlation between…
Jasper and his little dog Prelude balanced precariously at the edge of the mountain’s precipice. Below, a 600 foot drop to their certain death. Only the strength in Jasper’s finely tuned athletic body could save this young athlete and his companion. There would be no turning back. And then, from the next room comes…
It was on a Sunday morning in 1776 that our flag was born. We became the country that would ultimately lead the world in commerce, as well as altruism, never before or since equaled. Tomorrow we celebrate the legal holiday of Independence Day, the Fourth of July. But it is much greater…
“Like what could possibly be bad about the Olympics?” “Give me a break da harv. It’s been around even longer than you have!” To be precise… you can’t really be precise. Some say the whole rigmarole began in 776 BC. According to whatever Greek scribe you happen to read (sports reporting then was as cliché-filled…
So this atheist goes into a synagogue, stares at the Ark, the Scrolls, and the Eternal Light and exclaims: “These are just superstitions! If I’m wrong, let God correct me.” And a great voice came down from Heaven saying, “You’re right.” *** Before the fighting stopped our chaplains stayed busy. These guys were really good….