Tiny Tree Cafe

01/06/2026

Artist John Alfred Rowe “If All The Young Men Were Hares On The Mountain”, 122x106cm, Acrylic on Canvas.

30/05/2026

Japanese Artist Nikichi “The Land of Lamentation”, 2023, carved wood sculpture.

24/05/2026

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious “-Carl Jung

“PANDORA’S BOX”, 39”x28”, charcoal and graphite on paper, ©Laurie Lipton

24/05/2026

Donald Trump's approach to the Iran war reflected his personality, not strategy—and he is on his way to losing the war for that reason, David Frum argues:
https://theatln.tc/90aycxTI

🎨: Alex Wroblewski / AFP / Getty

23/05/2026

Writing at the moment a short story which delves into parts of my youth, I just, for the first time since I left Austria in 1986, have laid eyes on the house I lived from my birth to 1978, when I emigrated to Toulouse in France. It is amazing seeing that house and seeing that almost nothing has changed, even the Cypress Hedge is still there, only my father’s handiwork of natural stone paving has been replaced by something ugly, at least I think so. Compared to Australia, homes aren’t a speculative investment and they stay almost unchanged for quite long times … even shops and businesses in Mureck haven’t changed at all, or if, they changed business-wise where as the families who own it are still the same!

18/05/2026

Perfect weather for writing, second manuscript coming along, word count going up, up and away …

17/05/2026

16/05/2026

Israel’s efforts to influence the vote for the Eurovision Song Contest were broader and started years earlier than previously known, a New York Times investigation found. Here is the inside story of the controversy that almost broke Eurovision. https://nyti.ms/4wyk004

13/05/2026

Another Trump Con … he is a Shyster!

Nine months after the Trump Phone was meant to be released, no confirmed customers have received one—and there's no release date in sight

12/05/2026

President Donald Trump’s most consistent, and perhaps most compelling, justification for choosing to go to war with Iran was the “imminent threat” of the Iranian regime developing nuclear weapons with which it could not just destroy Israel but the entire Middle East, or cause a nuclear holocaust in Europe, or even threaten the U.S. via the intercontinental ballistic missiles he also alleged Iran was close to developing. “We would have had Iran with a nuclear weapon, and maybe we wouldn’t all be here right now,” Trump told a group of schoolchildren in the Oval Office last week.

None of this was or is true, writes Jonah Shepp. Iran was nowhere near developing a nuclear weapon or ICBMs, according to the assessments of the U.S. intelligence community and credible independent experts. Still, Trump has continued to insist that the Iranian nuclear threat was grave and imminent and furthermore that his war has ensured the elimination of that threat.

But after ten weeks of war, amid a tenuous cease-fire and worsening standoff in the Strait of Hormuz, the prospects for either a military or negotiated resolution to the conflict seem dim. “In the longer term,” writes Shepp, “the war could amplify the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran by increasing the Iranian regime’s determination to pursue a bomb even while damaging its technical capability to do so.”

Read Shepp’s full column: https://nymag.visitlink.me/5KF1dp