Conservative

onservative attitudes, positions and behavior emphasize and prioritize stability and safety. If it’s not really broken, it’s not really urgent to fix it. Look before you leap. While changes may recommend themselves, there are always transient implemention costs, and not infrequently there are losses & losers, and even permanent drawbacks & downsides. Liberal is not …

Superhuman emergency strength

uperhuman emergency strength is most often illustrated in the lifting of automobiles off victims pinned underneath, by a rescuer who is not a powerful person, and not athletic. The lesson taken & offered is, that when it is really needed, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary strength – which is not in itself a remarkable, …

Ansel Adams Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments

nsel Adams was a successful commercial photographer & artist with a long career.  But in 1941 he contracted with the government to record scenes in National Parks and public lands.  This body of work became legal public property, and the set of 220 images is now becoming fully available to the public.  Many are familiar …