Conscious World Art

So who’s Kimo? supposedly a professor of physics or philosophy at Berkeley who loved to spend time in Hawaii. Thanks Sharon Gold for sharing this text with me years ago, when we worked together at Roberts & Raymond Advertising Agency in Philadelphia. The time was the early 90s; our company was making the transition from […]

One of my Philadelphia friends made the comment recently that photographs from my childhood portray a seemingly idealized world, which made her wonder if growing up there was as idyllic as it appears to be from the photographs selected. Needless to say, no childhood is free of conflicts, and mine was no exception. Like all […]

The drawings that my aunt Charlotte saved from my childhood, and returned to me back in the 80s, were a revelation when I came across them two weeks ago, after years of their being filed away, forgotten. I was fascinated to see the development within the time frame of just a year and a half; from […]

If the piece in the email looks familiar, it’s because that was the artwork with which I initiated my first Advent-season series of emails December 1, 2012, which ran through January 6, 2013 – 37 emails in a row. The series was my way of tooting my own horn, saying “Hey Friends I’ve been having […]

1. In 1923 my grandfather Weymouth Harris Cole (1879-1974) started building a modern farm-house on the hillock just behind where the drafty old house of many gables stood; that house which his father Clark had looked at as a child and bought as an adult, when Harris himself was just two years old; the house […]

The farm on the hill with the impressive house of five gables was originally owned by a family named Mason. In 1881, the Masons sold the farm to Clark Remich Cole (1841-1915) my great-grandfather, the year he turned forty. It was quite an accomplishment as CRC had grown up looking at that house. When he […]