"snowflakes flitting down -- a winter solstice celebration" Issa Kobayashi (image: Hasui Kawase)

Inge Schuster. Interior with woman, 2024.

Let's not forget that Jimmy Carter hosted the greatest jazz concert in the history of Washington, D.C.—or maybe anywhere, for that matter.

. “There is, in my eyes, no greatness except in gentleness.” ― Simone Weil . Shuichi Machimoto

“Hygieia” 1900-1907 Gustav Klimt

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage. 　　　　　　ーSusan Sontag © Petteri Lappalainen

It's my Birthday today! Post ONE photo, art, painting or illustration that has special meaning or moves you in some way! 😊🥳🎨📸. #Birthday #ArtistsOnTwitter #PhotographyIsArt

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A glorious sight to behold! Saturn, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and crescent moon just before sunrise.

Archie, the harbour cat, linocut- Baps Pease.

Ambassador Caroline Kennedy’s statement to the US Senate on RFKJr’s nomination for HHS Secretary This is a reading of a letter she just sent to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions I’m so proud of my courageous mother, who’s lived a life of dignity,

John Coltrane & Stan Getz "Moonlight In Wermont(" Live in 1960).

John Coltrane plays "On Creen Dolphin Street" LIVE (1960).

The executive order creating DOGE specifically said unclassified systems only

I haven't heard for a long time "Desafinado" (Tuneless), that Antonio Carlos Jobim wrote in 1928.

If only there were a few Republicans in the US Senate with cojones like this. Former US Attorney Hagan Scotten is a Republican with a JD from Harvard. He held the rank of captain in the Special Forces during the Iraq War.

It took a lot more than the gene pool she shares with Dionne Warwick and Whitney Houston to turn opera superstar Leontyne Price into a legend. My latest in The Jazprose Diaries—How Leontyne Price Beat the Odds open.substack.com/pub/andrewjazp…

here's a thoughtful analysis of the present production of "Othello" by Andrew Hill, from his blog "The Jazprose Diaries," which I highly recommend. In 'Othello' Jake Gyllenhaal Goes After Denzel Washington Like Project 2025 on DEI, by Andrew Hill open.substack.com/pub/andrewjazp…