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Jewish Like Bernie
Clouds on I-5 photograph by Bill Fletcher (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser February 2016) “The truth is not ashamed of appearing contrived.” Isaac Bashevis Singer Reveling in...
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What Stood Out
Remembering What Spring Can Bring painting by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser February 2016) Todd. Max here, writing from snowy New Hampshire. At 7:30 this...
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Town Life
There Is Always More Life painting by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser March 2016) “Life is a long lesson in humility.” James Barrie I have now lived in Mendocino...
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Two Stories from Buddha In A Teacup
Change What was her name? She modeled for him twice. The four paintings he made of her sold before the paint was dry. Something about her angularity—a hunger in her bones. Or was it the sorrow in her...
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Near and Far
I Promise Moderation painting by Nolan Winkler (This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser March 2016) “There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.”...
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Bernie Blackout
Over the Rainbow painting by Nolan Winkler (This article was written for the Anderson Valley Advertiser March 2016) “I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.”...
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Forty Years Ago
Crossroads painting by Nolan winkler I completed my novel Inside Moves in 1975, the year the war in Vietnam ended. I had a medical deferment that saved me from going to that war. I lost friends to...
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Favorites
Sunstruck painting by Nolan Winkler “The diamond-bright dawn woke men and crows and bullocks together. Kim sat up and yawned, shook himself, and thrilled with delight. This was seeing the world in...
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Bernie Brigades
Calligraphic Bones painting by Nolan Winkler “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take...
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Nuclear Giants
On A Salty Day painting by Nolan Winkler “Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.” Albert Einstein Listening to the Giants bombard the Dodgers last week, I decided to pay a couple bills....
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Staunch Democrats
Sometimes, It’s A Circus, Isn’t It? painting by Nolan Winkler Most humans, alas, are easily swayed by clever liars who pray on our fears, and such swaying will almost surely cause the human experiment...
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Louie & Women
When I Sit In The Dark painting by Nolan Winkler Some weeks ago I shared the opening chapter of my novel Inside Moves, and a number of readers wrote to say they were sufficiently inspired by that...
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Hollywood Salads
Sunny Days painting by Nolan Winkler From 1978 until 1985 I was entangled in the movie business as a novelist and screenwriter hoping to get my creations made into movies. I was not greatly...
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Voting For Bernie
I March in the Parade of Liberty painting by Nolan Winkler Today I filled out my absentee ballot and voted for Bernie Sanders to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United...
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Your Bliss
From The Chair painting by Nolan Winkler “I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.” P. G. Wodehouse Joseph Campbell used the expression...
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Sherlock Gnomes
Little Gnome photo by Marcia Sloane “I can never bring you to realize [Watson] the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a bootlace.” Conan...
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Sad Scary
Quantum Something Or Other painting by Nolan Winkler “Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?” Maurice Freehill Now that the people of California have spoken...
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Coup
I’ve Been Waiting For the Sun painting by Nolan Winkler “If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.” Oscar Wilde I think it is important to view the Bernie Sanders saga in...
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Change
before, during a photographic collaboration of Todd, Marcia, and Max “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Carl Rogers We recently saw a French film made...
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Brexit Musings
You Just Looked Up At the Stars painting by Nolan Winkler “Greece should go back to a national currency to have more autonomous decision-making with regards to it own economy, which it needs if it...
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