Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
This is both unbelievably easy and delicious. I got this recipe from the Barefoot Contessa, who in turn got it from a coat check girl in a restaurant in Paris.
Last weekend I was asked by a friend about homeschooling. Do I stand up at a blackboard and lecture? No… I said.
Here is what the food around here has looked like lately. Some of what you see here has recipes already on the blog: click the links below for those.
I’ve been inspired lately by the translation of the Lord’s Prayer that is found in the Message version of the Bible (Luke chapter 11):
This movie is about a church gospel choir from Georgia making it to the finals competition in L.A. Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah make an interesting pair…
Martin Luther King was a great man and I honor his legacy. I wanted to share an extraordinary portrait of him made solely with 4,242 Rubik’s cubes.
We enjoyed a trip to IKEA to stock up on candles and drinking glasses, and also bought a short bookcase. We had fun looking at the rooms and designs.
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
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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.
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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.
