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
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
- 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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Jae Hodges
- Jul 26, 2020
- 2 min
Feeling It
I've read two things in the last two days, from two different points of view, saying the same thing. Art is about feeling. Francis Bacon,...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 22, 2020
- 1 min
George's Fedora
From under the tutelage of a past fading perhaps, but never lost From out of a mirror we step On wobbling feet, walk ahead Seeing...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 19, 2020
- 1 min
Seeing Past
In my second novel, one of the themes I'm working with is seeing the past for what it is. Not truth, as truth exists only as long as the...
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Jae Hodges
- Jul 17, 2020
- 2 min
The Art of Seeing
In a certain biography of an admired artist, one of the chapters begins with "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he...
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Jae Hodges
- Jun 30, 2020
- 1 min
Portal
Huntsville, Alabama, June 2020 I found this little gal trying to get in to my house this morning. This is not unusual, and is always an...
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Jae Hodges
- Jun 25, 2020
- 1 min
Abiquiu Calls
Abiquiu calls, night desert under flourescent light, to it I speak One of my desires is to capture Georgia O'Keefe's spirit in...
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Jae Hodges
- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min
Chimes
Time stops the instant we fail to see the pain and the beauty suchlike A week ago, this clock chimed for the first time, perhaps in my...
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 26, 2020
- 1 min
What's Important?
It isn't necessarily important to know that this guy is a collared aracari. A toucan by any other name is, after all, still a toucan....
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 25, 2020
- 1 min
Shelter in Place
This guy is over a hundred years old, and 1000 pounds. That alone is amazing to me. The only thing I found more impressive about seeing...
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
Windows to the Soul
Someone once said that eyes are the windows to the soul. Do you think they meant to include animals? Emphatically I say, I do! I have a...
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 19, 2020
- 1 min
Red Gets People's Attention!
Aside from my travelling, I seem to use my photography as a reward for finishing some bit of, dare I say, good writing. This week I've...
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 6, 2020
- 2 min
Legacies
I've been thinking about legacies as the central theme of my next novel. The legacy as a physical representation of a family heritage,...
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Jae Hodges
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
Even on Our Greyest Days . . .
We can find a spot of color in an otherwise bleak world; we can imagine a better day, near or far, when a spark can light up a picture;...
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Jae Hodges
- Feb 23, 2020
- 2 min
Three Vagabond Women
In the cold and the snow of December 1662, three women were tied to the back of a horse cart, and whipped for the crime of being Quaker....
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Jae Hodges
- Feb 18, 2020
- 2 min
White Horse Tavern
On Tuesday, May 5, 1663, Lidia Wardell was tried, convicted and whipped at the White Horse Tavern in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony....
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Jae Hodges
- Jan 26, 2020
- 2 min
Cezanne's Apples
I'm reading Francine Prose's What to Read and Why (Harper Perennial, 2018), a book that presents 33 essays on reading, and the written...
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Jae Hodges
- Jan 19, 2020
- 1 min
Anticipation
Holding my breath in anticipation of the final edits for The Rose and the Whip . . . anticipating what awaits behind the pulled shades,...
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Jae Hodges
- Jan 12, 2020
- 1 min
Nothing to Say
There are just some days when I feel like I don't have anything to say. On those days, it's best to hide out in my tower, put on some...
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