Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • Autumn Treetops

  • Save Our Students

      …that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The Declaration of Independence lists these undeniable Rights in this order. The first of these, the Right to Life, is being taken from our citizens, especially students, by gun violence. The time…

  • What’d I Say?

    What can we do, what is to be done? was a recent post here that I compared Dorothy Day to Bernie Sanders. Here Bernie does it himself… along with the Pope: “If politics must truly be at the service of the human person, it follows that it cannot be a slave to the economy and finance.…

  • Beholding

    My friend Richard Brady wrote the following note about learning to truly see. This speaks my mind about the act of appreciating art. If you look at the definition of the word appreciate, you grasp the layers of meaning when it comes to art: APPRECIATE transitive verb 1 a  :  to grasp the nature, worth,…

  • What can we do, what is to be done?

    I was struck reading this passage by how much this echoes what Bernie Sanders is saying in his speeches at political rallies and by what he has said for the past 25 years. The surprise is that this was written in 1955 during the so-called “golden era” of the middle class in this country by…