Solitude
"If solitude exists, and I don't know if it does, one should certainly have the right to dream of it occasionally as paradise." (Albert...
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Jae Hodges
Author, Photographer, Genealogist, Traveler
The Abstracted Artist
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
-Sam Levenson
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Jae Hodges
- Dec 11, 2021
- 2 min
Nor Cast Your Pearls Before Swine
Knowledge and courage, like pearls cast before swine, should not be wasted on those who cannot or will not appreciate it. In my book, The...
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Jae Hodges
- Sep 11, 2021
- 2 min
American Phoenix. Rising.
New York City, May 2013 In 1905, George Santayana published the first volume of his The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress. In...
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Jae Hodges
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
Owl Still Life
Homosassa, Florida, July 2021 In 2014, I visited the Orchard House, not for the first time but with a different perspective. For me, this...
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 24, 2021
- 2 min
From the Depths
Arches have been called the symbols of strength, openness, thresholds between worlds. I've been thinking about arches for recently,...
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 14, 2021
- 1 min
My Garret for an Ivory Tower
Virginia Woolf had a room of her own. Vladimir Nabokov said "If I do not demand an ivory tower it is because I am quite happy in my...
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Jae Hodges
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
There's Something About Pelicans
I collect quotations. I started doing it when I was working--I had a wipe board on the door of my office and I'd post a new quote...
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Jae Hodges
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
The Border Between . . .
In his novel, Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald said "the border between life and death is less impermeable than we commonly think." (p283) This is...
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Jae Hodges
- Feb 7, 2021
- 1 min
Look!
Vladimir Nabokov said "For someone who knows how to look, everyday existence is as full of revelations and delights as it was to the eyes...
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Jae Hodges
- Dec 9, 2020
- 1 min
So Little Time
"I have considered the eyes of the world for so long that I think it is time I had a little holiday from them. If one is not to please...
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Jae Hodges
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
Whimsy is as Whimsy Does
Whimsy -- "a fanciful or fantastic device, object, or creation especially in writing or art" (Merriam-Webster). I've been thinking a lot...
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Jae Hodges
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min
The Weight of Beauty
Cut Glass Decanter, Hernando, Florida, 2020 "What artists say about their own work is compelling because it tells us something about what...
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Jae Hodges
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
On the Wretchedness of Revolutionary Art
A Single Panel of the Berlin Wall, Newseum, Washington D.C., July 2009 I've been going through old pictures of my time in Germany, just...
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Jae Hodges
- Sep 21, 2020
- 2 min
Neither Cast ye Your Pearls Before Swine
The Quaker Meeting, a painting by Egbert van Heemskerck the elder (British artist 1634-35 to 1704) Let's talk about those first hundred...
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Jae Hodges
- Sep 15, 2020
- 1 min
The Reassurance of Age
"The public, as whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognise extreme...
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Jae Hodges
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
Lidia Sitting Back
My thanks, Gwendalyn, for the terrific review of The Rose and the Whip today on your instagram site at https://www.instagram.com/gwendaly...
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Jae Hodges
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
Mothers and Daughters
Chelsie reviewed The Rose and the Whip on her site Reading is My Remedy at https://readingismyremedy.wordpress.com/ yesterday. She is...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
Passage to a Past
Did you see my interview with Amy yesterday in Passages to the Past at http://www.passagestothepast.com/#. If not, check it out. For my...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 29, 2020
- 2 min
Writing in the Past
Thanks to Amy for the great review today in Passages to the Past at http://www.passagestothepast.com/#. Amy is also the wonderful lady...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
Rye n' Injun Bread
Thanks to Patty for today’s awesome review of The Rose and the Whip at https://bookscookslooks.com/. In her honor, I’m sharing a recipe...
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