Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Yesterday our daughter graduated from Sunday School with her friend…see photos in this post of our graduation celebration, complete with photos of their Sunday School teachers, with their parents…
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good. I’ve even taken photographs of some of them –mostly with my iPhone–as shown in this post.
What happened is that after 9.5 years of blogging everyday, this site grew too large for our (affordable) server. We had to migrate all of it to another bigger, much more expensive server, and because there was so much to transfer it took a bunch of time.
We had a quiet day here, reading on the front porch while the Firecracker Race runs by, chatting by phone and FaceTime with our children, having watermelon and burgers, hanging out in our beach chairs at the Quarry with friends, and then
This multigenerational saga is about a Korean family that expatriated to Japan, taking place throughout the 20th century. It highlights the harsh prejudice against Korean immigrants in Japan…
It pleases me beyond reason that I actually know the person that had enough vision, faith, and fun to put the smiles on those fish!
Last night I gave a PowerPoint talk to the Guilford Arts League titled Abstraction: Between Realism and Non-Objective Art.
I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good. I’ve even taken photographs of some of them as shown in this post…
Last week, St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, where our older daughter got her undergraduate degree, put out a really nice article about her.
My hope is that this practice will make us more aware of the constant flow of amazing good we are perpetually steeped in, which we are surrounded by all the time.
Today VW buys back our 2012 Jetta TDI because they cheated on the emissions and designed the car to appear to pass emissions tests instead of actually doing it.
Last week was our daughter’s spring break from college, but she stayed on campus with some other ceramics students to build a wood-fired kiln. It was a week of long, laborious days,
So I bought this bright red Honda Sport turbo Hatchback that gets 39 miles/gallon and has only 22 miles on it (much of which was driven by us). It is my first ever new car ever.
It makes me so happy coming downstairs in the morning to such gracious beauty. I am very grateful to be surrounded by so many flowers in February!
My heart is FULL of appreciation for you!
I hope you have a terrific day!
Feel cherished because you are!
We had a whopping, great conversation the whole way, and I can’t be grateful enough that we can talk so well about a huge range of meaningful stuff.
