Sunday Meditations by JB Minton

“EVERYBODY GETS ANOTHER SHOT AT BEING HAPPY, SO LONG AS WE DRAW BREATH ON THIS EARTH.”

AND

“WE EACH HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO RAISE CONSCIOUSNESS ON THIS PLANET”

Today’s Meditations:

• Oral History Is Not Proper Art Criticism (FREE)

• My new old truck (Paid Subs after 1st Paragraph)

• Reflecting on my third annual Men’s Transcendental Meditation Retreat in Purusha Campus, West Virginia (Paid Subs)

  • “How Do I Get Enlightened?” By Dr. Tony Nader (Youtube )

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Oral history of art is not proper criticism

I’m not saying oral histories are bad or you shouldn’t read them. I buy and read many of them. But I know what I’m doing with them and where their value ends and becomes detrimental to my joy as a critic and lover of commercial art. Instead, I’m saying that you should know what you’re reading and what it helps achieve.

If I come to you with joy about a work of art and tell you how it made me feel, and you direct me to an oral history, you are the enemy of art.

If you write oral histories and sell them as criticism, you are equally guilty of murdering art for cheap profit.

Show me an author who publishes oral histories about the art they supposedly love, and I’ll show you a cynic without hope.

Welcome “Old Roscoe” - our new old utility vehicle

OLD ROSCOE IS A GOOD DUDE OF A TRUCK

I’ve always secretly wanted a truck, but I’m not a traditional truck owner. I’m a solar panel-electric car, recycle everything possible, and eliminate single-use plastic kind of truck owner. In other words, I’m a cult of personality, and I always have been.