Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
I drove to the City today for the memorial service of a wonderful client of mine from when I had my engineering firm. Twenty years ago I renovated her building between 77th and 78th
–
I really enjoyed this book and give it five stars. It is quirky, honest and fresh, and so rich in metaphor to be almost like reading poetry.
–
I was struck by reading the following today, written by a fourteen year old, and quoted in a message by Charles Swindoll of the Northwest Bible Church in Dallas, Texas:
A Tribute to Wilma Johnson
Today I realized too late that she was
one of the quiet, unsung heroes of my life.
She was simply a housewife…
I was inspired today by Judith and Richard Lang who regularly comb the same section of beach for literally tons of plastic and make art out of it. The video below is fascinating both environmentally and artistically. After seeing the video, you may want to peruse their website at www.beachplastic.com to see more of their … Read more
I was at a meeting with my son in someone’s lovely home adjacent to a bay on Long Island Sound yesterday, where I captured this sunset from their dock at low tide.
Our oldest daughter left yesterday to go back to college after a three week vacation with us, which was the longest time she’s been home since freshman year.
Here is today’s newspaper article, written this time by my daughter instead of me about her experience on Capitol Hill last summer:
This collage is made from snippets from college “view books” before I recycled them. We saved only the nine for the schools to which he has applied.
Thank you to devoted blog reader Patricia C. for sharing this. I thought many of these were interesting.
It says something when you truly wear out a Bible! He’s starting to use a “new” one that was his mother’s because too many pages are falling out of his own…
Mind you, I neither made this nor ate this, being meatless for over three decades. Meanwhile, my oldest wanted this while she was home and my husband obliged.
For my oldest daughter’s birthday we gave her a dress to wear to a fancy “cotillion” at school. She originally thought she wanted the fabulous blue dress but
Today my son received his bronze Congressional medal during a short ceremony at church today, for work he did through NLC..