Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
Spring: A Sweet Season of Renewal While Mary Baker Eddy is best known as the founder of Christian Science, and author of the bestselling book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which presides along side the Bible as the pastor of the Christian Science Church, she was much more. She healed people the … Read more
The above two books are the best (non-spiritual) non-fiction I have read since the Omnivore’s Dilemma a few years ago. Now that I have to return them to the library after hogging them for months, I thought I’d review them together since I wrote extensively on the topic of their content in former posts: (see … Read more
This a landmark in the Palo Duro Canyon, near Amarillo Texas. I will be visiting there soon, and I painted this for my husband’s Uncle Harvey who is having a birthday party while we are there. Uncle Harvey is an artist at heart too (although an oil and gas man by profession) so I thought … Read more
We went to see Jesus Christ Superstar today. I have loved the soundtrack for decades but never have seen it. I have always wanted to. I have a personal tradition of blaring the song “Hosanna” every Palm Sunday. So when I saw that we could see the actual musical, on Palm Sunday of all things, … Read more
I’ve kicked myself all day that I didn’t take my camera. I could have had such great photos to share. I’ve spent the day with my teenage son in the Robotics department of MIT, with the John’s Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Program (see here). It even occurred to me to bring my camera, but … Read more
There are problems with being overly considerate of others. It can be a real source of misunderstanding. When you defer too much to someone else, they then misread you, and then communication is detrimentally hampered. Here are two examples, one old and one recent, but both ironically classic. When I was growing up, we had … Read more
The weather is a delight. The sweet air and
the sound of falling water refreshes the soul.
April Fool’s day is a silly tradition. When not celebrated with the release of a damaging new computer virus or worm, it can be fun. This morning, for example, I was not above waking up my teenage son by abruptly saying it was noon when it wasn’t. It is quite pleasurable to have one day … Read more
Tips of Spring The bare branches tacitly precise point gnarled fingers and wave lacy tendrils like brooms sweeping the sky like hair standing on end each strand preposterous and defined coy, but flirting capillaries. This spiky punk rock stage will pass the spring cleaning will finish the monochromatic veins and bony limbs will soon be … Read more
This page represents March 16 through March 27, 2009. See below for some close up photos. Enjoy!
This entry is a follow up to yesterdays’ entry on overfishing which you can read here if you missed it. What can be done about it? It turns out there are solutions to overfishing. There is hope if courageous action is taken soon. (All quotes are from The End of The Line by Charles Clover.) … Read more
My non-fiction reading in recent months has been consumed with reading about overfishing. I’ve been a vegetarian for over 25 years, prompted in large part because I read Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe and was moved to do my part for human sustainability. Over fifteen years ago I slowly started phasing in eating fish, needing more protein, and became a piscivore as well as a vegetarian. A couple years ago I was deeply influenced by Micheal Polon’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma to try to eat more organic and local food; I was inspired to reduce my carbon imprint related to food and attempt not to pollute either the earth or my body. It has since become obvious to me that I didn’t really know where my fish was coming from, and whether that was sustainable either. Hence my recent self-education, which has been eye-opening as well.
I took these photos in two different spots. The tightly closed wet ones were taken this morning before a breakfast meeting with early sun after last night’s rain.
Here are some close-up photos of spring splashing forth. Gushing, gurgling, trickling, spewing, rippling, murmuring, sloshing, moving in March. Enjoy!
I have mostly been hand-building in pottery lately (see picture above of my pumpkin leaf), and it has been over a year since I have thrown on the wheel (with my most recent effort the vase seen below.) Anyway, since it has been so long, it was like starting all over again, and my teacher … Read more
I read this book because I had read another book titled The Beekeeper’s Apprentice a few years ago, also by Laurie R. King, and had really enjoyed it. I wanted to read something further by her, and this was the only other title by her in my local library. I enjoyed this book too, but … Read more
Yesterday in my blog there were close-up reflections of March here, so I thought it only fitting to offer today some reflections in context. These were taken in the same places as yesterday’s so you can give yourself the challenge, if you wish, of matching up locations with yesterday’s in depth photos. Enjoy!