Is Original Thought Ever Original?
Where does the beginning for all beginners actually begin? From the Creator of all beginnings.
What Makes a Story Compelling to You?
I love stories–fiction and nonfiction. I even enjoy telling stories. During a week with my daughter and two granddaughters, I was sharing a story, of course, animated for the young ones, when six-year old Gracie tapped my leg. Looking up, her head stretched back to see my face, she said, “Nonny, you sure have a…
Up Close and Personal? Or So Far Away?
So much of our lives and our relationships are narrowed down or broadened by our perspective. Like artists who can paint the same scene in multiple ways, we also view life from our individual vantage points. Vantage point is all about the perspective where the artist is standing in relationship with a vanishing point in a…
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.–Scott Adams
A Richly Textured Life
Must the rough always be made smooth? Or so it appears in life, or at least with our public facades and selfies. In art texture with all of its diversities is noted as one of the seven basic elements of art, valued for its smooth and rough, its many values (more about that later). In truth,…
Our History is Our Art in the Making
Look carefully at the photos that follow: What do you kinda see in the first one? Then with a new perspective? Finally, its far-reaching strands? Can we grasp the power of seeing one’s almost completed blueprint in action, one strand connected to another into its ultimate design? I could have missed this tenacious spider’s artwork…
Fast Forward 10, 20 Years
You’re never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis Thoreau says it like this: Go confidently in the direction of your own dreams and endeavor to live the life you…
The People We Choose not to Like: My Clique/Click Moment
I don’t get zombies or reality housewives from any county. Mariah Carey irks me, and I can’t say why. I don’t like the pretty young grocery clerk, the one who’s too friendly to my husband. She imagines I’m invisible. Clearly, I’m not. Maybe it’s my age, maybe my area, but I find myself growing less…
Introvert or Extrovert? (Both are needed.)
Have you ever taken the Meyers-Briggs Personality Test? If so, once you saw “your letters” identifying you as an I-introvert or E-extrovert, or an Amnivert, a borderline, like I am, how did it make you feel? Defined? Labeled? A typecast? I wasn’t bothered at the time because I knew I loved being with people sometimes, while coveting…
The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. Pablo Casals, cellist
We live in a land where children live abused and neglected. We have many services through our DHS and law enforcement officers along with community organizations working overtime with too few funds. They can only do so much because thousands of children live in our area with predators and abusers lurking . So what can…
The Art of Lovely Living: 