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1. Seminars presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, NYC:

How Can a Woman Be Both Serious & Lighthearted? includes discussion of story by 19th century writer Fanny Forester (Emily C. Judson) and quotes from Eli Siegel's great 1966 lecture on her "What Is the Light?"

How Can I Take Care of Me Yet Be Fair to You?: A Woman's Urgent Question includes a section on Charles Dickens' great novel Little Dorrit ever-so relevant to women right now.

Can A Woman Make Sense of How She's For & Against a Man, the World, Herself? - with a section on aspects of Jane Fonda's life, her courage in opposing the Vietnam war and mix-up about her father & men.

The Most Popular Mistakes about Love -- and How Not to Make Them! - takes up the film Erin Brockovich;

Respect, Contempt, and Individuality - looks at the life of Pauli Murray (1910-1985),  lawyer and civil rights activist born in Baltimore when the South was segregated;
Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Love and Criticism: Is There Any Relation?- takes up the play Look Back in Anger by John Osborne;

What Is True Courage -- including in Love? - with a section on Vera Brittain's noted WWI autobiography Testament of Youth.

A Woman's Conscience - Friend or Enemy?  - about the 20th century photographer Lee Miller;

The Fight in Every Woman Between Selfishness & Generosity - looks at journalist Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), who courageously covered the Vietnam War;

What Does It Mean to Like People? - looks at Frances Wright (1795-1852), one of earliest persons to speak out publicly against slavery in America;

What Are Women Hoping For? - about the famous muckracker, journalist Ida Tarbell (1857-1944) author of The History of Standard Oil;


Is Good Will Our Greatest Power? - takes up the relation of Sara Coleridge and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the important father-daughter relations in history;

What  is Triumph in Love? - with a consideration of the English playwright Aphra Behn and her 17th century anti-slavery novel
Oroonoko;
"Hunters in the Snow" detail
  2. Art Talks presented at the Terrain Gallery
How Can We Be Composed?: Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow

Art Opposes Injustice; or, Cezanne's Still Life with Onions


  3. Published articles:
Seabiscuit in film
Seabiscuit Shows the Power of Kindness - Rock Island Argus, (IL) Sept. 22, 2003; Tennessee Tribune, (Nashville) Sept. 18-24; also appeared in on-line Forum in Thoroughbed Times, Lexington, KY. 
What Does a Person Deserve by Being a Person? - Carolina Peacemaker,June 18, 1998, Greensboro, North Carolina
A home should be an inalienable right - Santa Cruz Sentinel of June 18, 2000, Santa Cruz, California
Geese on Ellis Island in New York Harbor  4. Pictures:
Some from my window; Central Park; geese on Ellis Island; protesting the war in Iraq
  5.  Aesthetic Realism Links Page:

Aesthetic Realism Online Library; Timothy Lynch, President of Teamsters Local 1205; Bruce Blaustein, fashion executive;  Ed Green,  composer; Anne Fielding, Obie award winning actress; Barbara Allen, flutist and educator; Miriam Mondlin, Aesthetic Realism consultant; Lynette Abel & Michael Palmer, writers; and other exciting articles and sites.

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