Film making made painting a flamboyant performance. Picasso draws on film with a flashlight in the dark. Some ferocious film star with a chiselled superhero jaw line dashes off a Van Gogh.  A guy in a trendy lumber-jacket knocks off a couple yards of lonesome pines and autumn splendour in a vigorous Canadian heritage moment.…

When I was in my thirties I saw a very good psychiatrist once weekly for a few years. He'd escaped the holocaust as a child. He wrote about prenatal psychology. He loved rabbits. He told me to read Freud when I was Jung and to read Jung as I grew old. This past year I've…

I'm not sure where I was when I cut cut and pasted the following into my mind map: "Acedia is an occupational hazard among men of learning that takes the form of a gradual withdrawal of motivation for research and an increasing alienation from science. During the Middle Ages acedia had only a religious meaning.…