by Jeffrey Scherer | Aug 17, 2018 | Cultural, Health, People, Social, Uncategorized, writing |
One of the joys of being injured (albeit through elective surgery), is that we can learn to focus on things that we take for granted and enjoy new things we don’t normally notice. Our perspective changes and, if we are paying attention, we learn how our bodies,...
by Jeffrey Scherer | Aug 10, 2018 | Health, People |
I am home from the hospital and beginning to assimilate to staying in bed for 22 1/2 hours a day—since I am allowed up only 3X a day for the first two weeks. This is to reduce the negative impacts of swelling that will occur if my ankle is below the level of my heart....
by Jeffrey Scherer | Jun 8, 2018 | People, Philosphy, Social, Travel, Uncategorized |
In the past week, the world has lost two Iconoclasts: Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. This we all know. In this article I am not going to re-post copies of the numerous articles cropping up; repost the posts written by writers who brushed against them in the past;...
by Jeffrey Scherer | Jun 4, 2018 | Cultural, Health, People, Social, Travel, Uncategorized |
As most of my friends know, we recently relocated from Mérida, Yucatán, México to Portland, Oregon. This decision was made deliberately over quite some time. This post is not about the reasons for the move—those have been explained in previous articles. It is about...
by Jeffrey Scherer | Jun 3, 2018 | Cultural, Health, People, Philosphy, Social, Work |
We live in an extraordinary time. We have a class of people that are so wealthy that they can not, in a reasonable way, spend their wealth in their own lifetimes. We also have a class of people who are so selfish that that their whole world view excludes (by willful...
by Jeffrey Scherer | May 26, 2018 | Art, painting, People, Uncategorized, Work |
As an artist, I am constantly on the look out for triggers. Triggers that spark an image or narrative that can result in a painting. I don’t want or need the whole story from a trigger. I do not want someone to finish the story for me—or even “give”...
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