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I’ve been brewing and marinating on this idea since the fall when I did my painting titled “Bracken” (see here), and I finally took the time to do it. I love the result, with its overall complexity, intense color, and the strong swirling design of the pods.
This book is desolate and rather devastating. This is not so much a recommendation as a review; it is me needing to talk about it, not you needing to read it.
Commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust observance) matters because it forces Jews and Christians alike to confront what happens when hatred is allowed to grow unchecked and when human being stop seeing one another as bearers of dignity.
I’m pleased to be in this juried show with Connecticut women, and that they used my image (shown first below) as their promotion for their opening reception, which was last Saturday.
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
unsuitable.
I like Peter Joyce’s artwork, even though it has less value contract than I prefer. He makes me want to use more white tones in my paintings, which I definitely don’t usually gravitate to.
This is written by a former Religion 101 professor about how teaching college kids about the diversity of world religions really help her admire parts of each of them.
Devastation recedes as compassion surges, while blooms ever so silently unfold, unnoticeable, until flagrantly and gorgeously displayed.
The task is not to force meaning into the world. The task is to become a clear place where meaning can take form.
The idea for this painting germinated from the intro to a favorite show All Creatures Great and Small, which traverses winding, hilly roads toward town and home. Here too in Connecticut roads are undulating and indirect, surrounded too by foliage and fields
Everyone enjoyed being together so much that we sat at that brunch table for five hours, but it felt like only two. So grateful.
May you have a blessed day, reassured, inspired, and filled with awe. May renewal be blooming right where you are!
We just saw this in the movie theater and I absolutely loved it. A lot of people I know have recommended the book as well as the movie, and I’m glad we saw it out on the big screen.
Jesus aligned with God’s consciousness and was raised from the dead to show us we could live forever. Now, please, can God raise our collective consciousnesses
The March the challenge was to paint a still life with a pattern in it. In this post you can see the one I did that was shared yesterday. It is 19″x25″ and done in pastel. I had fun doing it– especially the technical background
This is a novel about second-generation Tunisian immigrants living in Sweden, and their challenges of cultural duality, where they do not fit in, either in their country of ethnic origin nor in their resident birth country.
I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, informs, inspires, supports, educates, or motivates you.