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Once my brother Jeff took me rock climbing to Moab’s famous “wall street.” I was in my twenties, had never rock climbed, but had strong arms and a skinny frame. My brother taught me rock climbing essentials, and I strapped in the harness and started moving up. Jeff belayed and kept calling from the ground. “You’re doing awesome.” I easily climbed three quarters up the mountain until I reached a point where I was sure I wouldn’t be able to keep my three points of contact. I’d gone as far as I could, there was no where…

Ruffled Autumn Clouds by Emil Nolde. 1927 A week before quarantine I hung up one of my favorite paintings: Ruffled Autumn Clouds by Emil Nolde. A German-Danish painter, Nolde is known for his exploration of color at the beginning of expressionism. In college I studied expressionism and how the great German expressionists shook Adolf Hitler to his core. Expressionism in the early 20th century attempted to depict the inner feelings of the artists rather than the realistic world around them. Just after naturalism, a true-to-life style, you could imagine how the rebellious artists of expressionists rattled the…