My calendar tells me that today is Martin Luther King Day. This federal holiday honors the civil rights leader and is also recognized as a national day of service, encouraging Americans to volunteer in their communities. And as we seek to speak with our friends, our children, our grandchildren, and, yes, for some of us, …
History
Carroll Beckwith’s Portrait of William Walton
On occasion in these posts, I have had the pleasure of sharing thoughts and comments about a favorite work of art. Such is the case here, as described in the opening pages of the document referred to here. Written for a private organization in New York, the purpose here was to provide historical and background …
Digital Postcard: Memorial Day Greetings from Germany
Dear Friends, A quick message from Germany, as our Viking cruise takes us to a few more famous sites (Nuremberg, Passau, and the Benedictine Abbey at Melk). Then on to Vienna (which we’re very much anticipating, since it’s a city we dearly love). We’ll end with Budapest so I can soak up all the Art …
Vienna: Collected Posts
For some blog posts in Sharing Guy’s Journey—when several have been written over a period of time about a particular subject—it is best to have them compiled into a list, which I’ll try to do with groups of posts in the future. “Search the website” is a useful too, but it searches by word, and …
The Frick’s Angel
[Special thanks to Kevin Manion for his generous assistance with this post, originally published June 24, 2022.] Since you are reading what is generally referred to as “Guy’s personal blog,” it makes a certain kind of sense to say, once again, how we New Yorkers seem to have a special appreciation for what is available …
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