Luggage is My Life

A visit to the Steel Yard

L-r, click to enlarge & read the fine print: the mindset; bike racks created through the Steel Yard, for municipalities that want a nice look; the pagoda where tix are sold to events; a mural on a storage container. A decade ago a couple of artists took over a brownfields site in the industrial heartland of Providence, RI, where America's industrial revolution took root. They turned it into a studio-atelier-workshop-place to get dirty-celebration-next generation-entrepreneurial-sparks fly-molten iron pours kind of place that politicians love to visit ... now that the Steel Yard has been around 10 years and remediated the site. It was good that the founding artists came from wealthy families, because government was ZERO help.

For Christmas, we went to Hawaii (the jigsaw puzzle)

2 philosophical propositions walk into a bar

One is about the road. One is about the road not taken. In other news: but you knew that (click the image to enlarge and read the fine print):

Sometimes it's just about...

...what you connect to. Connect, for instance, sales of "Cucumber Sage Balancing Mist from Skin Organics" to a bull stock market -- and maybe you uncover some immensely powerful, planetary principle, secret "controlling equation" (to give it a name). A constant equation. Predictable. Invariable. Encrusted to Just Those Few flawed-but-ready "seekers" who stumble onto it. Me. You?

Novels

I'm beginning to see this. Novels are pretty much about the moods of the characters. The voice of the novel follows the mood. My novel, The Unofficial U.S. Army Field Guide to Belfast 1942.

A novel in 2 photos: What changed do u think?