When I began this blog in June of 2016 my inspiration for using Rodin’s famous “Thinker” sculpture as a theme came from the website address of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, namely www.ocpathink.org. OCPA is their acronym and “think” I presume they selected because the address www.ocpa.anything was way too expensive (about $10,000 when I checked if memory serves) so adding “think” made it way cheaper and symbolizes their effort to be a real “think tank”, i.e. devoted to policy research and education. Knowing little about how internet search algorithms work, I selected www.ocpathinker.org thinking people looking for them might find me, because I thought it was funny and it also was cheap. So my formal title Oklahoma Councilor for Public Accountability, and using Rodin’s Thinker as a visual theme, followed.
The where in the world is the thinker photos were a natural and I’ve enjoyed having lunch or breakfast with about thirty old and new friends along the way. Another fun outcome happened spontaneously when friends have sent me photos of actual Rodin Thinkers they’ve seen during their travels. Here they are:
October, 2017, Sue Haskins sent this photo of Gay Miller from their visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
Sherry Durkee sent this photo from her visit to Columbia University in NYC, October, 2017:
Patrick Ohlson sent this photo of Jesper Ohlson from their visit to the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City in October, 2017:
March, 2018, Greg Morris sent this photo from his visit to the British Museum in London, England
Marianne Boshuizen sent this photo from her visit to the Kyoto National Museum in Kyoto, Japan in October, 2018
Fritha Ohlson sent this photo of Sofia and Jesper Ohlson from their visit to Legoland, CA, March, 2018
July, 2018 from Houmas Plantation in Louisiana sent by Lloyd and Tresa Snow:
I’ve previously shown this photo Linda or I took in Tulsa which I call the “River Thinker”, November, 2014
And this I took at the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art in Oaxaca, Mexico, March 2017
My friend Julius Leach recalls that the Dobie Gillis TV show of the early 60s began each episode with Dobie thinking in front of a Thinker in the city park:
On a road trip through Texas in March, 2019, Linda discovered this lady Thinker in a Galveston cemetery, dated BEFORE Rodin’s Thinker:
Richard and Sherry Durkee sent this in March, 2019, from the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, the city where our first child was born:
