Charles van Heck's Woodhull Journal

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  • Oppenheimer and the Ethical Dilemma We Face

    From an economic perspective, speculation in AI is limiting our investment in other sectors of the economy: energy infrastructure, housing, strategic value networks, logistics, and business innovation.  Too many land, water, and energy resources are being diverted for the construction… Continue reading

  • The Interior Wound and National Values

    There is an interview with Eddie S. Glaude Jr. that I keep thinking about. The interview, conducted by Geoff Bennett, aired on 15 June on PBS News Hour. Glaude is the author of the book America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows… Continue reading

  • Reading and the Mastication of Words

    There are books that, like fast food, we gobble up to satisfy our appetite. Other books are snack food to be nibbled on to gratify a craving, And then, there are those books that are served like a three course… Continue reading

  • The Vision of Chrissy Mount (Kapp): Integrating Art and Business

    For newer artists or crafters, I would start with the basics: Is this your business or is this your hobby? And then act accordingly based on your answer. The danger is pretending your “art” is something it is not. Continue reading

  • The Vision of Chrissy Mount (Kapp): Integrating Art and Business

    I hope that through my paintings, my audience will remember their own history and develop an appreciation of the sacrifices past generations have made to create the United States of America. Much of this formal and family history is not… Continue reading

  • The Unspoiled Core

    Art is our response to life. The artist is a person who perceives and desires to transmit to others what they have experienced—to open the eyes of others to what is present and awaiting their (our) awareness. The artist shares… Continue reading

  • On Vulgarity and Profanity

    What does our use of profane and obscene language say about us as individual persons? What does their proliferation and acceptance say about our society? Does it, as some would argue, mean that we are being more honest? Or, as… Continue reading

  • June 6: Dwight Eisenhower and Luke Morrison

    This essay is dedicated to the memory of the men of the 801st TD, including my uncle, Albert Nelson Bunt, and the 99th Infantry. Continue reading

  • A Letter to an Artist Friend

    We live on schedules that are responses to what others impose on us. The peculiar aspect of this is that we do this wearing different personas, masking ourselves as if in Greek plays, alternating between comedy and drama. People judge… Continue reading

  • Living in the Circuit

    There are all too frequent periods in our lives when our priorities cause us to lose sight of nature’s “staid current,” its circuit that we live within. We sense, but do not pause to see, to observe as we rush… Continue reading