Positive and negative

 

On May 19th in Pflugerville I made a soft pastel portrait of the fluff and seeds of an antelope horns milkweed (Asclepias asperula), as shown below. For some reason I got the idea that the picture would look interesting as a negative, and that’s what you see at the top. You might mistake those dark strands for human hair.

 

 

 

 

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Last week we watched Peter Robinson interview Douglas Murray for an hour. Cultural analyst Douglas Murray has recently spent one month in Ukraine and six in Israel to report on the continuing wars in both countries. In this interview he tells what he’s witnessed as a war correspondent and also ties those things to Western culture more generally in light of his cautionary 2018 book The Strange Death of Europe. You’ll learn a lot—some of it troubling—from watching the one-hour interview.

You’ll also profit from Douglas Murray’s June 1st presentation in the Netherlands, “The rise of anti-Semitism is a sign of a society in decline.”

 

 

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