THIS IS..




	THIS IS.


		FALL IS UPON US I had dreams of an indian summer but it never quite materialized. When we turned the clocks back...well that was that. Here in northern Illinois the sun has been pretty scarce and it's dark by the time I get off work. So it's time to hibernate. The season has greeted us with a fairly phenomenal storm or two. The one in October making it plain that it's real flat around here and when there's a lot of rain...well, it floods.
		I rode out on a day a couple of weeks ago and managed to get some colorful pictures of foliage, as you can see. Joseph Albers, a color theorist and artist, often asked his students to do color studies based on what they found in nature at this time of the year. His book "The Interaction of Color" is a classic of color theory.

		So...synonymous with fall is, of course,...fashion. And what more important article of fashion is there than the cleverly artistic, sculptural design of the footworthy shoe. Footworthy only in a fashion sense since most of the examples I found on a recent tour of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, revealed items that, while exhuberant and whimsical, looked painful to wear, sometimes excruciatingly so.
	DISTRACTIONS, Major and Minor Currently reading... "Our Lady of the Forest" a novel by David Guterson (2003) Vintage Books Recently read... "Life of the Beloved" by Henri Nouwen, (1992) The Crossroad Publishing Company Recently seen... My wife and I recently went to the Opera. She acquired tickets for one of the hottest events of the Lyric Opera of Chicago season, Salome (as stated on the website, nubile and depraved). This is, of course, the story of the daughter Herodias, who danced the dance of the seven veils for her lecherous step-father Herod, Tetrarch of Galilee, ruler of Judea. Once overcome with lust for his step-daughter as the result of watching her do this lascivious strip-tease, he promises her anything she desires. She asks for the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter. The rest is salami, er, Salome.

Listening to..
"Extraordinary Machine" - Fiona Apple (2005) Sony Records


	WHAT'S NEW ARCHIVES (uh, What's Old) Winter 2005-06 Spring 2006 Summer 2006