On a Friday visit to the Metropolitan, where I am now, it occurs to me why Jules Bastien Lepage‘s Joan of Arc, one of my favorite paintings here, also bothers me ….. It’s the figure of Joan of Arc and the Three Angels….they’re totally unnecessary.

How often (and with all the Mess on Wall Street going on just now) does life get cluttered up with debris. No, Joan of Arc is sacred, but she does not need to be in this painting…too bad the Artist put her in.

And there’s a story here, everything could have been said, and better,without her in this painting.

Just a thought about what we think as being neccessary, and what isn’t.

And Loic Le Meur layer off just about all of Seesmic‘s employees…yes, the recession/depression has begun.

I guess, that trip I may have taken to Paris in December for LeWeb3 08 is looking less and less likely, perhaps it’s unneccessary, as well (I was in Paris twice last year).

So what do you think is really neccessary in your life, because, sooner than we think, we may have to choose.