Paintings, Fine Art, and Writings
Agnes Martin was famous for her serene, meditative abstract paintings, but she was also known for being a student of Zen-Buddhist and Taoist spiritual philosophies. I read a retrospective of her life …
In Native American cultures giving was a way of life. They made generosity a tribal value and created ceremonies and rituals to weave it into the fabric of daily living. If you had a baby, you were …
They say when someone close to you dies, you’ll grieve the loss forever, and the depth and duration of your sadness shows how much you loved the person. Experience tells me you can go on loving …
It’s autumn now and I’m beginning to get excited about cold weather and hot drinks, but not just any hot drinks — my favorite hot drink — the matcha latte. Have you tried matcha? It’s green tea leaves …
If Earth is a school for souls, and I believe that it is, Covid has been like the fire drill that shook everybody up. We were all sitting in class as usual when the alarm sounded and we had to head …
(revised on March 9, 2024) What does the equinox really mean? We typically think of it as the first day of fall (or spring). A quick online search will tell you the ancients built sites like …
This is a special time of year – it’s marked by a variety of significant celebrations for people of different faiths and nationalities. But there is one momentous occasion that is shared by every …
If you’re a human walking around on this planet, there are two parts of you. These parts are physically demonstrated by your brain. It has two sides, the left and the right, and they each have …
I take a lot of flower photos. Some of them bore me in camera, so I don’t finish them. Others I like, but they just don’t work in post-processing. Every now and then there is one that thrills me the …
The fall equinox is happening on Monday, September 23, 2019. I’ve been trying to pay more attention to these seasonal shifts and appreciate the changes they bring, so I made some notes about what this …
