I have a twin brother. We are fraternal twins, which means that we are no more genetically similar than any other siblings. However, we did have a shared experience of the womb, we grew up in the same social and cultural milieu, and our shared childhood experiences created a unique familial bond. At the same time, we have made distinctly...
Last night, just before I shut off my computer, a music writer who I have corresponded with for over 25 years sent me a picture of this press letter I had sent him in 1994. It's not the most "professional" of letters, and while I'm 25 years older, I'm not sure I've become much more professional. During the night, I...
This morning the snow started around 8am. Thick, heavy, dollops of snow fell from the windless sky, piling up on branches. I went out when the fluff was just starting to cover the ground making it an ideal time to make images. As usual, there's a lot to do, but there won't be school for a few days here. So...
[caption id="attachment_20661" align="aligncenter" width="432"] an early design of our poster by David Beilinson[/caption] I’m struggling to write about an excerpt from Johann Hari’s book “Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions” that appeared in The Guardian yesterday. So much of what he writes dovetails with what we tried to communicate in “All The Rage”, our...
2017 was a very long year that went by at light speed. While 2016 challenged the basic idea of objective truth, 2017 took a hatchet to it in a way that highlighted how we all inhabit different worlds and different stories. For those who see Trump as a lying incompetent narcissist, it is almost unfathomable that others don’t see it...
The few times I've posted anything vaguely political on the All The Rage Facebook page, it has sparked outrage from Dr. Sarno fans who support Donald Trump. This includes simply posting articles about Trump's response to the opioid crisis with no comment whatsoever. While Dr. Sarno did not write about political issues in his books, when he appeared before the...
I wrote this post last year but never made it live. Re-reading it now, almost a year later, not much has changed except now it's been kind of a long 2 years. I've spent the last few days working on a post about how in our modern culture, systems have a tendency to create the kind of Balkanization that...
This weekend we went with to the Museum of Natural History in NY. When we lived in Brooklyn I made class trips with the kids and it was always nuts trying to wrangle 30 2nd graders within a mass of other classes. Thankfully, depite the snow, when we got there this weekend it wasn't too crowded. As we entered the...
Last week I detailed a very fancy shoot of a frosty leaf. The last two days I did some back lit glamour work on weeds. kickstarting a book right now- please click through to check it out. ...
Yesterday I had the opening for my photo show of images from the meadow behind my house. It was great to share the work with friends. In some ways, I always felt that the show - and the launch of my Kickstarter to make a book of the images- would mark an end to the project. I felt a bit...
"I have to say it’s ludicrous to suggest Dr Sarno is responsible for pain being viewed as biopsychosocial these days. This truly misrepresents the facts and the decades of scientific research culminating in this conclusion. Where was Dr Sarno when Melzack and Wall developed the gate control theory in 1965? That is factually when the idea of bio psychosocial came...
Cultural blindness in regards to the power of our emotional responses to the world is often stunning. This blindness can involve deeply unconscious patterned behavior that includes fear, anger, sadness, much of which is repressed- and therefore not fully recognized. When we refer to someones' cultural blindness it does not necessarily imply "blame", but when presented with it, people tend...