Anticipation. So much of life is about the anticipation. Forget the actual event sometimes, right? I’m preparing for my annual Advent Collage-A-Day Calendar Practice and I […]
Christmas Eve. Day 24 of the Advent Calendar. Tomorrow we welcome Christmas with all its hope, anticipation and joy. I’m away from my husband right now, […]
How to foster peace in the world, especially in the most challenging and difficult situations? I certainly do not have that answer. But, this quote from […]
Today’s entry is a reblog from Aleteia.org, an online Catholic news and information website founded in 2011/2012 by the Foundation for Evangelization through the Media. It is based […]
One of the classes I teach, Studio, Art and Society, was designed specifically for non-art majors. The first three weeks of the course are spent making […]
Personified wisdom. I wrote these words nearly 20 years ago alongside Matthew 11:28-30 in my Harper Collins Study Bible during one of my classes at Yale […]
This post is a reblog from Krista Tippett’s On Being BY SHARON SALZBERG (@SHARONSALZBERG). I’ve taken classes with Sharon Salzberg at Kripalu in Lenox, MA and one day […]
My understanding of the word silence changed dramatically after I read Rebecca Solnit’s essay “Silence Is Broken,” found in The Mother of All Questions. Maria Popova writes a […]
I return to a phrase and a variation of the phrase from Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Walking” (first published in 1862 in The Atlantic), whenever I need to […]
Love starts when fear ends was inscribed in the entryway of the Egyptian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. The exhibit featured a multi-sensory film by artist […]
The etymology of a word often directs my art-making, especially when I am uncertain of a path. I’ll take a word, look at its origins, synonyms/antonyms, […]
Redacting text lives high on my list of techniques for manipulating words, whether found or my own. I don’t remember the origins of the text for today’s […]