This week in The Pearl – Thanksgiving Day


This week has been about food and friends, not a whole lot of art happened since we were quite busy. Friday we got a call from our friends Diana and Karen asking if we wanted to meet-up with them that evening, we were in. We went to one of their regular spots, the Shaku Bar…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday


Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. C. S. Lewis Here in the US we celebrate Thanksgiving Day this week. It always pains me when I hear it called “turkey day;” which implies a bit of extravagant consumption…

This week in The Pearl – November 21, 2025


A sure sign of the seasons is that the crows are returning, I have seen them flying by the window just after sunset. During spring and summer we only see the occasional crow in our part of The Pearl. Then in the winter, the tree right outside our window becomes a communal roost for the…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Finding peace


“Naturally, the more attention one gives to the deplorable conditions outside the less one is able to enjoy what peace and liberty he (she) possesses. Even if it be heaven we find ourselves in, we can render it suspect and dubious.” Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, 1957 My contemplation of…