Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
– I thought the idea expressed in the video below was very encouraging and timely. It is about an economic paradigm shift towards a gratitude and gifting economy. After you watch the video, you can read the book here, online. –
I started this last fall on my unheated side porch but its completion was interrupted by snow at the end of October.
– This six-hour A&E/BBC version of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice is magnificent. To give it five stars seems paltry. My daughter, home from college on spring break, is rereading this classic for a class, so it seemed fitting to watch this (best) movie version once more. Boy, I am glad we did! If you … Read more
I really enjoyed this book and give it five stars. It is different than anything I have ever read. It is a story of redemption, so there are a few
I enjoyed a hike today around Jamaica Lake… What a lovely day. Our first real warm one: balmy in the high 60’s!
I drove my daughter to an activity in Boston today. While she was doing her thing, I hung out with friends in their neighborhood of Jamaica Plain.
I am a regular contributor to the Danbury News Times Forum on Faith column, which is also picked up by the Connecticut Post and the Stamford Advocate. Here is today’s article:
The National Leadership Council has been a wonderful experience for our son. This selective class of kids has done a lot of activities over four years.
I couldn’t resist sharing this car I saw in a parking lot. We all need to have more fun! Bravo for them!
We saw this movie this evening and enjoyed it. But who doesn’t love a story where the underdog wins, where dreams are…
This enormous book is not the type I often undertake. I read it in order to be able to discuss it with my daughter who was also reading it, and I’m so glad I did!
I found this video very inspiring and hope-inducing. I love a true grassroots, bottom-up approach.
“Nothing will give permanent success in any enterprise in life, except native ability cultivated by honest and persevering effort. Genius is…” George Elliot
I have been working lately with a line from a Bible Lesson a couple weeks ago, “Deity which outlines but is not outlined.” It’s about doing God’s will and not…
How appropriate on leap year to be thinking about time. Since many blessings come from tithing, I’ve been thinking, do we donate ten percent of our time to God?
