Category Archives: Journal

Sailing and Photography: There Were People

Posted on August 6, 2013 by commart

The portrait studios may mill out family art, cool and professional with calculated warmth from much practiced methods, but it may be the humble snapshot, the impromptu recording, that turns out the more truly intimate artifact.  For that reason, and … Continue reading →

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Rebel Mouse Scares Me!

Posted on July 24, 2013 by commart

https://www.rebelmouse.com/JS_Oppenheim/ It really does. Up to this day in time, much of what we have done even in public communication has involved masking off interests and speaking to one audience at a time. Much has also involved not talkin’ about … Continue reading →

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Ol’ “Oppenheim Arts & Letters” — A Review of Digital Assets

Posted on July 7, 2013 by commart

http://commart.typepad.com/oppenheim_arts_letters/2013/07/that-darned-beautiful-logo-shaping-the-web-dimension.html The above URL links to the Typepad mama of the three WordPress blogs I’ve been keeping as business, personal, and conflict journals. But there’s more to the story. I’d close the old blog but have found opportunity to reference … Continue reading →

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Time In A Garden – Time With Communicating Arts

Posted on July 1, 2013 by commart

I put the snaps up on the business’s blog and a story to go with them.

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Summer Note 6-29-13

Posted on June 29, 2013 by commart

It’s a bad show that casts me as the old man walking in the park with a camera. Nonetheless, when one has been glued to Facebook, the news (the Turks have settled down to tending the wounded and sharpening their … Continue reading →

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Note From the Garden

Posted on June 27, 2013 by commart

A Note Between the Pictures My politics blog Conflict BackChannels (“Conflict, Culture, Language, Psychology”) has been picking up about 100 hits a week. Depending on who’s reading, it will either change the world or not. My related Facebook community has … Continue reading →

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FTAC – A Comment on Web Time

Posted on May 9, 2013 by commart

Reading – Richard Adams – _The Girl in A Swing_ Back when, I would be done . . . and perhaps working on my own work . . . or working on a photograph . . . or a piece of … Continue reading →

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Reading – Richard Adams – _The Girl in A Swing_

Posted on May 6, 2013 by commart

I’m sorry I marked the first paragraph of the first chapter of this old and deckle edged first edition, but even so slightly used, oh what a still magical and mysterious experience the reading remains. Adams’ work reminds: while a … Continue reading →

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Resting Deep

Posted on May 6, 2013 by commart

I can feel it: this ain’t gonna be no nap. “If you had it to do over again . . . .” What if you do have it to do over again? This time without the brow beating, the screaming, … Continue reading →

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Eating Chocolate, Sipping Coffee

Posted on May 5, 2013 by commart

Two days: no sales on the Amazon Kindle e-publishing adventure. 😦 I’ve read Nicholas Sparks, and I so do not wish to write that badly. Then too, I’m practically in Nora Roberts’ back yard — true: 30 minutes, if that, … Continue reading →

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An Exhausted Writer’s Retreat – Sunset, Blinds, Hunter Hill, May 1, 2013

Posted on May 1, 2013 by commart

On the old Oppenheim Arts & Letters, I had noted several times in its “19th Century” modern section the horror of having applied serious creative writing chops and energy to “chatyping” — that’s what I call all of this — at … Continue reading →

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Robin Defense, Hunter Hill, April 2013

Posted on May 1, 2013 by commart

In the seven years in which I’ve adjusted to living at Hunter Hill, an apartment complex just beyond the fringe of Hagerstown, Maryland, about six miles south, if that, from the Pennsylvania border, I have raised, by turns, doves, wrens, … Continue reading →

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