Thank You!
Hey, I just wanted to say a big thank you to those of you who contributed a recent gift of financial support for “What’s Tony Thinking?” It was great to receive your generous donations, and also to get kind notes from a number of you. Means a lot.
If you want to make a donation to keep Tony thinking (and writing) but haven’t gotten to it as yet, there are a several ways to do so. Electronically via Venmo or Zelle. If you want to use one or the other of those, get in touch with me via the “Contact” form on this site and I’ll send you the information you need to use either of those.
The other option is the old school one of sending a check to me at our world headquarters. The address for that is 6006 Seaview Ave. N.W., Unit I (as in “ice cream”) Seattle, WA 98107
To continue with a bit more “shameless self-promotion,” I’ll be doing a show of some of my paintings at Doppio’s Cafe in Hood River, Oregon during the month of November. Second time for me there at Doppio’s, which has a really great breakfast and lunch menu if you happen to be in the neighborhood. It’s on the main east-west drag in Hood River. I’ve also managed to talk Linda into letting me include some of her beautiful work in this show. Excited about that.
Here are a couple of the pieces I’ll have at Doppio’s. The one directly to the right is “Autumn on the Zumwalt.” The Zumwalt is the Zumwalt Prairie in Wallowa County, the largest, never plowed short-grass prairie in North America.
Above that, top right, is another in a series which incorporates a phrase the speaks to me, “Everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” That one is quite abstract, which is unusual for me. Mostly I do representational pieces, landscapes. But I got to playing around and liked the combination of the black, yellow/ gold and white together.
Last one here is from the Scottish Isle of Skye. I’d like to think it looks a bit better and more vivid in person than I’ve managed in the photo, but you get the general idea.
Hope you are having a good weekend. If you are like me, you feel a constant low, and sometimes not so low, level of anxiety about the upcoming election.
I keep telling myself that while politics and elections are important, they aren’t everything.
I do think, to draft on David Zahl in his book Seculousity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion that politics has really become a leading “replacement religion” in our time and society, and not in a way that is good for any of us.
Back to regular content soon.