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Two Figures Reclining in a Landscape, by Henri Matisse, 1921

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver _____ Introspection , by Thelonious Monk * September 30, 2009

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight Eisenhower _____ The Clown , by Charles Mingus * September 12, 2009

Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, shouts "You lie!" during President Obama's speech on health care, September 9, 2009

John, Robert and Edward Kennedy

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy _____ In a Sentimental Mood , by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane * August 30, 2009

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend." - Benjamin Disraeli _____ I Should Care , by Hank Mobley * August 15, 2009

Automat, by Edward Hopper, 1927

"Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle." - Henry Miller _____ The Peacocks , by Stan Getz and Bill Evans * August 9, 2009

"There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground." - Richard Pryor _____ So Near, So Far , by Miles Davis * July 24, 2009

The arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., on the porch of his own home

Tehran, June 13, 2009

"Revolution is the festival of the oppressed." - Germaine Greer _____ Freedom , by Charles Mingus * June 24, 2009

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn _____ Justice , by Art Blakey * May 30, 2009

The United States Supreme Court

Unsold GM autos, south of Sao Paulo, Brazil

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG." - Bill Gates _____ Doodle Oodle , by Count Basie * March 31, 2009

"The greatest weariness comes from work not done." - Eric Hoffer _____ Blue Spirits , by Freddie Hubbard * February 26, 2009

"Shoes," by Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

"No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the Depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically." - Isaac Asimov _____ Brother, Can You Spare a Dime , by Dave Brubeck * February 2, 2009

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead _____ Change of the Century , by Ornette Coleman * January 21, 2009

1950's partiers

"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions." - Mark Twain _____ If I Were a Bell , by Woody Shaw * December 31, 2008

"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." - Washington Irving _____ Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy) , by Duke Ellington * December 20, 2008

Salvation Army distributing food, Chicago, 1903

Sugaring Off, 1945, by Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses

"God bless us every one!" - Tiny Tim (from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol) _____ To Us is Given , by Dave Brubeck * December 18, 2008

"No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community." - Theodore Roosevelt _____ Whom Do You Work For? , by Ornette Coleman * December 12, 2008

Rod Blagojevich

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of." - Confucius _____ Sack O' Woe , by Cannonball Adderley * December 9, 2008

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's." - Mark Twain _____ Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah , by Louis Armstrong * December 4, 2008

"Dog on the Beach, West Wittering," by Jo Crowther

"Saying Grace," by Norman Rockwell

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy _____ Blue in Green , by Bill Evans * November 23, 2008

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley _____ Better Git It In Your Soul , by Charles Mingus * November 17, 2008

"Norman Jr. Reading in Bed," by Gordon Parks, 1967

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin _____ On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever) , by Bill Evans * November 9, 2008

"The most important political office is that of the private citizen." - Louis Brandeis _____ Great Expectations, by Miles Davis * November 4, 2008

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." - Winston Churchill _____ Let's Get Lost, by Chet Baker * October 15, 2008

"Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again." - Will Rogers _____ You Took Advantage Of Me , by Hank Jones * September 15, 2008

"I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'" - Oscar Levant _____ Love For Sale, by Dexter Gordon * August 3, 2008

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - When John McCain introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate Friday, her reputation as a tough-minded budget-cutter was front and center. "I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere," Palin told the cheering McCain crowd, referring to Ketchikan’s Gravina Island bridge in Alaska. But Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it. The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." They’re still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin’s subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects - and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines. "I think that’s when the campaign for national office began," said Ketchikan mayor Bob Weinstein on Saturday. - Tom Kizzia / McClatchy Newspapers, August 31, 2008

Jesse Owens

"I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself." - Jesse Owens _____ Reflections, by Thelonious Monk * July 22, 2008

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought." - Wallace Stevens _____ Moonglow, by Duke Ellington * July 7, 2008

"Summer Evening," by Edward Hopper

"The Fourth of July, 1916," by Frederick Hassam

"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation." - Jane Addams _____ Struttin' With Some Barbeque , by Louis Armstrong * July 1, 2008

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing." - Mark Twain _____ All the Gin is Gone, by Jimmy Forrest * June 26, 2008

George Carlin

Tim Russert

"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves -- and the better the teacher, the better the student body." - Warren Buffett _____ What's New? , by Stan Getz * June 16, 2008

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person; he believed in me." - Jim Valvano _____ You Can Depend On Me , by Louis Armstrong * June 12, 2008

"Homecoming," by Norman Rockwell

Barack Obama

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." - Josh Billings _____ Giant Steps , by John Coltrane * June 2, 2008

"Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow _____ Psalm , by John Coltrane * May 25, 2008

Graves at the American War cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, French Normandy

"Hand with Reflecting Sphere," by M. C. Escher, 1935

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom." - Thomas Henry Huxley _____ Soon I Will Be Done With The Troubles Of This World , by Carla Bley and Steve Swallow * May 19, 2008

"Difference of opinion is helpful in religion." - Thomas Jefferson _____ Nothing Ever Was, Anyway , by Paul Bley * April 28, 2008

Photo © Toby Gascoyne

"Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans." - Will Rogers _____ Speak No Evil , by Wayne Shorter * April 16, 2008

"When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid, it can't last long.' But though a war may be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting." - Albert Camus _____ The Balled of the Fallen, by Charlie Haden and Carla Bley * March 29, 2008

"The Family", c. 1941, by Romare Bearden

"If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race." - Bill Cosby _____ Blue Lester , by Lester Young * March 22, 2008

"Racism is man's gravest threat to man -- the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." - Abraham Heschel _____ Change Of The Century , by Ornette Coleman * March 14, 2008

"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country." - Karl Kraus _____ On The Corner , by Miles Davis * March 12, 2008

"The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world." - Betty Grable _____ Dancing In The Dark , by Cannonball Adderley * February 26, 2008

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton/photo from The Ave

"The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can." - John Gardner _____ Tear it Down, by Wes Montgomery * February 17, 2008

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery _____ I Didn't Know About You , by Thelonious Monk * February 13, 2008

Les Fiancees de la Tour Eiffel, by Marc Chagall

The United States Capitol rotunda

"A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation." - Thomas Jefferson _____ The Other Side of Right, by Joe Henderson * February 5, 2008

"Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become." - Mary McGrory _____ Birds Of Fire , by the Mahavishnu Orchestra * February 2, 2008

Dick Butkus

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato _____ Echoes of Primitive Ohio and Chili Dogs , by Rahsaan Roland Kirk * January 28, 2008

"A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue." - Cornel West _____ Acknowledgment, by John Coltrane * January 18, 2008

Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King, 1966 -- LBJ Library/Photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto

"Blue Nude," by Pablo Picasso, c. 1902

"Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves." - Elissa Melamed _____ It Must Be True, by Mary Lou Williams * January 9, 2008

"The ballot is stronger than bullets." - Joseph Schumpeter _____ March On, March On, by Eric Dolphy * January 2, 2008

New Year's Eve, New York, 1938

"He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.” - F.M. Knowles _____ Broadway, by Count Basie * December 31, 2007

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” - George Bernard Shaw _____ I'll Wait and Pray, by John Coltrane * December 29, 2007

Nima and her daughter -- among the 41,000 residents of Hamediya, a camp for displaced Darfurians in western Sudan. Photo: Rod Volway/Mercy Corps

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." - Charles Dickens _____ Greensleeves, by John Coltrane * December 20, 2007 * On behalf of its subscribers, Jerry Jazz Musician has made a donation to Mercy Corps

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." - Charles Dickens _____ Maybe You'll Be There, by Billie Holiday * December 17, 2007 * On behalf of its subscribers, Jerry Jazz Musician has made a donation to Mercy Corps

Photo: Roger Burks/Mercy Corps

Romance of Autumn, by George Bellows, 1916

"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you." - Tennessee Williams _____ Forerunner, by Ornette Coleman * December 4, 2007

"Modern technology Owes ecology An apology." - Alan M. Eddison _____ Bitches Brew, by Miles Davis * November 25, 2007

Gas Works, by Harry Leith-Ross

Grace, by Eric Enstrom (1918)

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, For love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson _____ Peace Piece, by Bill Evans * November 20, 2007

"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes." - Henry David Thoreau _____ Maybe Next Year, by Art Pepper * November 14, 2007

Gas, by Edward Hopper (1940)

Fall Plowing, by Grant Wood (1931)

"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad." - Edwin Way Teale _____ Autumn Song, by Mose Allison * November 2, 2007

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game -- the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us." - Walt Whitman _____ Take Me Out To the Ballgame, by Frank Rosolino * October 22, 2007

"Closeup of a Worn Baseball"

"Infinity," by Gary Faye

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know." - Saint Augustine _____ Nothing to Declare, by Paul Bley * October 15, 2007

"Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none." - Stuart Chase _____ Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus), by Miles Davis * October 2, 2007

Nuclear explosion over Nagasaki; August 9, 1945

For a beloved son, off to college this weekend... "Breaking Home Ties," by Norman Rockwell, 1954

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Albert Einstein "How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?" - Dr. Seuss _____ Now's the Time, by Charlie Parker * September 20, 2007

"Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell _____ Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me , by Charles Mingus * September 12, 2007

photo by Declan McCullagh

photo by Charles "Teenie" Harris

"If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool." - Abraham Lincoln _____ The Work Song, by Cannonball Adderley * September 2, 2007

"The man who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad Ali _____ Air Mail Special, by the Benny Goodman Orchestra (Charlie Christian on guitar) * September 1, 2007

"Seagull in Flight," 1877, by John Singer Sargent

"At the Beaches," by Paul Boddum

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson _____ Got No Blues, by Louis Armstrong * August 25, 2007

"Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one." - Baltasar Gracian _____ My Ideal, by John Coltrane * August 21, 2007

"Every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." - Charles Dickens _____ Alone Together, Chet Baker * August 10, 2007

"You are the music while the music lasts." - T.S. Eliot _____ What is This Thing Called Love?, Ella Fitzgerald * August 1, 2007

"Promenade," by Marc Chagall

photo by Colin Gregory Palmer

"This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country." - Eugene McCarthy _____ People Time, by Stan Getz and Kenny Barron * July 22, 2007

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." - Sam Keen _____ Hotter Than 'Ell, by Fletcher Henderson * July 14, 2007

"La Baignade," (c. 1920), by Maximilien Luce

A battlefield during the Iran/Iraq war

surge (n) a sudden or abrupt strong increase; "stimulated a surge of speculation"; "an upsurge of emotion"; "an upsurge in violent crime" - Dictionary.com _____ Excursion on a Wobbly Rail, by Cecil Taylor * July 12, 2007

"If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I do?" - Buckminster Fuller _____ Presence, by McCoy Tyner * July 1, 2007

Earth, as seen from the moon

Portrait of Maurice, by Andy Warhol

"The more I see of man, the more I like dogs." - Baroness de Staël-Holstein _____ Fantail, by Count Basie * June 22, 2007

"Hitch your wagon to a star." - Ralph Waldo Emerson _____ Hope, by Andrew Hill * June 18, 2007

Autumn Moon, the High Sierra from Glacier Point, by Ansel Adams, 1948

Breaking Home Ties, by Norman Rockwell, 1954

"There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence." - Samuel Johnson _____ I May Be Wrong, by Gerry Mulligan (with Chet Baker) * June 12, 2007

"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means." - Chou En-Lai _____ Not Quite That, by Booker Ervin * June 7, 2007

John F. Kennedy and Nikita Kruschev

Peace dove sign at anti-Iraq war protest, 2003; photo by Declan McCullagh

"Peace is the only battle worth waging." - Albert Camus _____ On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever), by Bill Evans * May 30, 2007

"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example." - Benjamin Disraeli _____ Psalm, by John Coltrane * May 25, 2007

Memorial Day, 1918

Dance for Peace, by Pablo Picasso

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein _____ I Had the Craziest Dream, by Kenny Dorham * May 15, 2007

"Mother -- that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries." - Thomas De Witt Talmage _____ Sweet and Lovely, by Thelonious Monk * May 11, 2007

Mother and Child, by Pablo Picasso

American Flags Flying at the Washington Monument, photo by Karen Kasmauski

"You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it." - Harry Truman _____ Eventually, by Ornette Coleman * May 1, 2007

"Either war is obsolete or men are." - R. Buckminster Fuller _____ Search For Peace, by McCoy Tyner * April 23, 2007

An Hoa, North Vietnam, 1969

A bullet hole from University of Texas shooting, 1966

"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.” - Ayn Rand _____ Count Your Blessings, by Sonny Rollins * April 19, 2007

"Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart.” - John Adams _____ Sorrow, by Coleman Hawkins * April 17, 2007

Lancaster, Ohio, 1938. Photo by Ben Shahn

"But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?" - Robert Kennedy _____ I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan, by Lester Young * April 14, 2007

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." - William Shakespeare _____ Where or When, by Duke Ellington * April 5, 2007

Couples, by Roy DeCarava, 1960

Cape Cod Morning, by Edward Hopper

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems." - Rainer Maria Rilke _____ It Could Happen to You, by Miles Davis * March 24, 2007

"We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds." - Anton Chekhov _____ Some Other Time, by Bill Evans * March 19, 2007

"The Mask with the Little Flag," by Paul Klee

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - Seneca _____ It's Magic, by Eric Dolphy * March 13, 2007

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle _____ Flight, by Andrew Hill * March 9, 2007

"Child with a Dove," by Pablo Picasso, 1901

"The Voice," c. 1970, by George Tooker

"I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are." - Frances Moore Lappe _____ Song of Praise, by John Coltrane * March 3, 2007

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln _____ Body and Soul, by Coleman Hawkins * February 25, 2007

Painting by Jacob Lawrence

"The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to." - Marian Wright Edelman _____ Giant Steps, by McCoy Tyner * February 16, 2007

"That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love." - Emily Dickenson _____ My Romance, by Bill Evans * February 14, 2007

"Mariee," by Marc Chagall

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell _____ Evidence of Things Unseen, by Don Pullen * February 9, 2007

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." - Agatha Christie _____ Footprints, by Wayne Shorter * February 3, 2007

Wounded Korean War soldiers practicing with wheelchairs and crutches at Walter Reed Military Hospital

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official." - Theodore Roosevelt _____ Peace, by Ornette Coleman * January 30, 2007

"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure." - Lyndon Johnson _____ Ruined Castles, by Rahsaan Roland Kirk * January 23, 2007

President Lyndon Johnson listening to news about the Vietnam war photo Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Muhammad Ali at Vietnam War Protest, Los Angeles, 1967

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service." - Albert Einstein _____ Not In Our Name, by Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra * January 19, 2007

"The chain reaction of evil -- wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." - Martin Luther King, Jr. _____ Storm Clouds and the Mist, by Jack DeJohnette * January 12, 2007

William Adams, 1939 - 1971

"Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation." - Lyndon Johson _____ Purple Heart, by Henry Rollins * January 8, 2007

"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me." - Anais Nin _____ Never No Lament, by Duke Ellington * January 2, 2007

Anais Nin, photo by John Pearson

"New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." - Mark Twain _____ Jumpin' at the Woodside, by Count Basie * December 28, 2006

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone." - Charles Schulz _____ The Christmas Song, by Dexter Gordon * December 20, 2006 * On behalf of its subscribers, Jerry Jazz Musician has made a donation to CASA for Children

"Peaceful Blue Bird," by Khanna Kimmelman, Age 8

"Mountains and Trees," by Charlie Rogers, Age 13

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white.'" - Bing Crosby _____ Greensleeves, by Kenny Burrell * December 15, 2006 * On behalf of its subscribers, Jerry Jazz Musician has made a donation to CASA for Children

"Blessed be my feet that I may walk in the path of my highest will." - Robin Morgan _____ It Was Written in the Stars, by Bill Charlap * December 11, 2006

"Footprints on Sand, Australia," by Oliver Strewe

"Dog Barking at Moon", by Joan Miro, 1952

"A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied." - An Irish Proverb _____ Snap Crackle, by Roy Haynes * December 5, 2006

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll _____ Mojo, by Booker Ervin * November 28, 2006

"Light of the World - 1932," by Peter Blume

"Shopping on Black Friday," photo by Chris Kateff

"People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'" - Sinclair Lewis _____ Beau Koo Jack , by Louis Armstrong * November 24, 2006

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." - Thornton Wilder _____ Tenderly, by Duke Ellington * November 22, 2006

"Freedom From Want," by Norman Rockwell

Dodges Ridge 1947, by Andrew Wyeth

"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down." - Don Delillo _____ Here's That Rainy Day, by Art Pepper * November 18, 2006

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr _____ Night Dreamer, by Wayne Shorter * November 13, 2006

Martin Luther King meets with President Lyndon Johnson at the White House, 1966. (LBJ Library/Photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto)

Oahu Beach, March, 1945

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy _____ Don't Worry About Me, by Dave Brubeck * November 10, 2006

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle _____ Top Shelf, by Blue Mitchell * November 8, 2006

Photo by Teenie Harris

"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects." - J. William Fulbright _____ Now's the Time, by Charlie Parker * November 4, 2006

"Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up." - Sharon Olds _____ Pound Cake, by Lester Young * October 27, 2006

Bill Mazeroski, 1960

Henry Wallace, 1948, photo from Los Angeles Public Library photo database

"Under every stone lurks a politician." - Aristophanes _____ Slippery, Hippery, Flippery, by Rahsaan Roland Kirk * October 24, 2006

"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts." - Omar Bradley _____ Madness, by Miles Davis * October 13, 2006

Miss Atomic Bomb, 1957

Still photo from Abbot and Costello Go to Mars

"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on." - Oscar Levant _____ One Bourbon, One Shot, One Beer, by John Lee Hooker * October 5, 2006

Gather leaves and grasses, Love, to-day; For the Autumn passes Soon away. Chilling winds are blowing. It will soon be snowing. - John Henry Boner _____ Early Autumn, by Ben Webster * October 1, 2006

Fishermman at Sunset, 1947, by Thomas Hart Benton

Ellis Island, New York, 1905: photo by Lewis Hine

"Hope is passion for what is possible." - Soren Kierkegaard _____ You Must Believe in Spring, by Bill Evans * September 22, 2006

"The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing." - John Adams _____ Prayer For Passive Resistance, by Charles Mingus * September 15, 2006

"Liberty and Barbed Wire," by Ben Shahn

"East Side Soap Box," by Ben Shahn, 1936

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality." - Max DePree _____ Are You Real?, by Art Blakey * September 8, 2006

"School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you." - John Updike _____ Little Rootie Tootie, by Thelonious Monk * September 5, 2006

"The Schoolteacher," by Norman Rockwell

173rd Airborne, Hill 875, A Shau Valley, 1967. Photo by Gilles Caron

"All the gods are dead except the god of war." - Eldridge Cleaver _____ Stairway to the Stars, by Dexter Gordon * September 1, 2006

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." - William Faulkner _____ Let's Agree to Disagree, by Mamie Smith (1921) * August 22, 2006

Surrounded by British troops, Prince Faisal is proclaimed King of Iraq, August, 1921

Croatia, 1991

"If we don't end war, war will end us." - H.G. Wells _____ Warm Canto, by Eric Dolphy * August 14, 2006

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come." - Carl Sandburg _____ Blue in Green, by Bill Evans * August 3, 2006

Scott County, IA, 1987; photo by David Plowden

Israeli paratroopers at the Western Wall, June 10, 1967; photo by David Rubinger

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato _____ It's Me, O Lord (Standin' In The Need Of Prayer), by Hank Jones and Charlie Haden * July 25, 2006

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung _____ Resolution, by John Coltrane * July 17, 2006

"Ecstasy," by Maxfield Parish

The Walk to Paradise Garden, 1946, by W. Eugene Smith; © The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith

" When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up." - Herman Hesse _____ Easy Living, by Paul Desmond * July 8, 2006

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." - William Faulkner _____ Change of the Century, by Ornette Coleman * July 2, 2006

Jasper Johns, Flags I, 1973, screenprint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection 1994.82.8

Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940, by Marion Post Wolcott

"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." - Henry James _____ Summertime, by Louis Armstrong * June 23, 2006

"The greatest thing a father can do for his children, is to love their mother." - Anjaneth Garcia Untalan _____ Song For My Father, by Horace Silver * June 16, 2006

"Joy," by Marc Chagall

"Chop Suey, 1929," by Edward Hopper

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." - Marlene Dietrich _____ Just Walkin', by Wes Montgomery * June 10, 2006

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." - George McGovern _____ Dusk, by Andrew Hill * June 6, 2006

Da Nang, Vietnam, 1965

"Eleanor, Chicago, 1948," by Harry Callahan

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." - Arthur Miller _____ Darn That Dream, by Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker * May 31, 2006

"Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth..." - Thomas Moore _____ Peace Piece, by Bill Evans * May 27, 2006

Gravesite of a soldier killed in Waldhambach, Germany. December, 1944

"Allies Day, May 1917," by Childe Hassam

"The government is us; we are the government, you and I." - Theodore Roosevelt _____ Deeds, Not Words, by Max Roach * May 22, 2006

"The earth and myself are of one mind." - Chief Seattle _____ Always Hope, by Jane Ira Bloom * May 19, 2006

"The Little Pine," by Emily Carr

Mother and Child, Belle Glade, Florida, 1940, by Marion Post Wolcott

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not." - James Joyce _____ I Can't Give You Anything But Love, by Duke Ellington * May 12, 2006

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson _____ Serene, by Eric Dolphy * May 10, 2006

Magnolia Blossom, 1925, by Imogen Cunningham

Man with portfolio, 1959, by Roy DeCarava

"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark." - Jack Anderson _____ One Down, One Up, by John Coltrane * May 4, 2006

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." - Patrick Henry _____ Freedom Suite, by Sonny Rollins * April 29, 2006

Flag on Orange Field, by Jasper Johns, 1957

by Ed Ruscha

"A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment." - Marshall Field _____ Blue Sands, by the Chico Hamilton Quintet * April 24, 2006

"Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it." - Bill Terry _____ Van Lingle Mungo, by Dave Frishberg * April 14, 2006

Ty Cobb

Photo by Robert Maplethorpe, 1977

"A small leak can sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin _____ Hocus Pocus, by Lee Morgan * April 8, 2006

"All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian." - Pat Paulsen _____ Cherokee, by Dave Brubeck * April 1, 2006

"Subway Portrait" by Walker Evans

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live." - Margaret Fuller _____ Reflections, by Thelonious Monk * March 24, 2006

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow _____ Almost Like Being in Love, by Sonny Rollins * March 21, 2006

"Rolling Home Together" by Stacy Dynan

"Paris" by Elke Hesser

"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle." - Jonathan Swift _____ Smack Up, by Art Pepper * March 17, 2006

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton _____ Some Other Time, by Bill Evans * March 13, 2006

"Statue of Liberty in Paris, 1886"

"Distant Poplars", by Claude Monet

"The poetry of earth is never dead." - John Keats _____ Softly As in a Morning Sunrise, by Fred Hersch and Bill Frisell * March 9, 2006

"I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing." - Studs Terkel _____ It Might As Well Be Spring, by Clifford Brown * March 3, 2006

"Couple Walking Through Central Park", by Steve Lindner

"Red", by Stephen Young

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America." - Jimmy Carter _____ This Land, by Bill Frisell * February 25, 2006

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill _____ The Thing to Do, by Blue Mitchell * February 18, 2006

"Harlem, 1963", by Orlando Fernandez

"Haengju, Korea, 1951"

"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on forever... money, for instance, or war." - Saul Bellow _____ Dance with Death, by Andrew Hill * February 8, 2006

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin _____ Deception, by Miles Davis * January 26, 2006

"Ida Proper," by Jamie Wyeth

"Endless Love," by Alfred Gockel

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle _____ Serenade in Blue, by Stan Getz * January 24, 2006

"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling." - John Steinbeck _____ Jumping the Creek, by Charles Lloyd * January 19, 2006

"Rain 2," by N Schweitzer

Ralph David Abernathy, Martin Luther King, and Andrew Young, © Abernathy Family Collection

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King, Jr. _____ Someone to Watch Over Me, by Coleman Hawkins * January 16, 2006

"Music is only love looking for words." - Lawrence Durrell _____ My Favorite Things, by John Coltrane * January 8, 2006

"The Banjo Lesson," by Henry Ossawa Tanner

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - Edward Abbey _____ Tomorrow is the Question!, by Ornette Coleman * January 4, 2006

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