Discovering Phillip Payne of Santa Fe, New Mexico

…nts as they graced the streets, parks, museums and galleries of The West’s towns and cities. I confess to relishing the change in attitude displayed by ‘Western Art’ gallery directors when I mentioned that I had interviewed Phillip Payne! The Payne family commands enormous respect in America. Phillip Payne is a very young man and is already an accomplished and acclaimed sculptor. I believe that he has a glittering career ahead of him that can only… Continue reading

A Piece of Cake – 6

…ht much about that before. From an emotional perspective, jokes are really complex. We start with a kind of a story, context or a question that sets up a mixture of emotions and that lead into the punch-line: a moment of comprehension. This then triggers amusement. And then we laugh. Sometimes a lot; sometimes, not at all.” “So I understand. Because of our friendship, George, there’s a lot of network traffic about humour and especially jokes. We’r… Continue reading

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: Looking at the origin of the universe

…ay. “But I have a question. If all the matter in the universe was contained in one lump, what was outside the lump?” “I don’t know! That’s one of the two most fundamental and unanswered questions about the universe.” Says Dan-Who-Knows-Stuff. “What’s the other question?” I ask. Dan-Who-Knows-Stuff smiles. “What is time?” he says…. Continue reading