Matins are morning prayers. I’ve written about them before. Whether you are given to prayer or not or even to a belief in God, doing something “up lifting” in the morning is therapeutic. The book I’m working through – it’s actually a 12 week course – The Artist’s Way – mandates that you write three […]
……Time gives to suffering. I read this once, when I was reading some Albert Camus. I struggled for years to understand it. In a vague way, I knew that poets suffered through their poems – “Do not go gentle into that good night” – and we know these poems now as Art – “Too much
Art is a great healer. It takes the mind and the heart from the troubles of the day to a different space, a different time, a different world. Maybe that’s why so many artists seem so “spaced out,” most of the time – they are someplace else. I have been doing some fibre Art lately,
On our last day in Amsterdam we went to the Van Gogh Museum. Although Vincent was born in Holland, he did most of his painting in the south of France. His brother, on the other hand, remained in The Netherlands, attempting to sell the artist’s paintings there. Perhaps this is why the museum has such an
I was reading a post the other day that began “Three more Charlottes.” The author, Charlotte Henley Babb, was researching famous women named Charlotte. One of her posts was about Grace Kelly’s mother-in-law – quite an infamous woman. But that’s an aside. Her title, Three Charlottes, made me think of and old folk song entitled
Both Art and Attitude are “A” words. Please, let me explain. Because I need a focus to get through winter, I have borrowed a meditating technique that I used a few years ago to, well, do just that – get through winter. That is, I created a post a day based on three words beginning
This is my second post on the ninth celebration of Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Oct 4/5, 2014. For me this all night Art show has always been about the people and the magic that it brings to the ordinary, everyday landscape of the city. For example, this Henry Moore sculpture took on a totally different
Last Night from 7:00pm to 7:00am Toronto hosted its ninth annual Nuit Blanche – an all night Art “party,” in various pods around the city, that is totally free!! I have gone out for everyone of them and they are amazing. Each year is different. Often the locales change; the installations always change; however, the
I’ve been thinking a lot about Art this week. – that’s the medium as opposed to the man 🙂 My son is working on a few commissions and a series for a gallery showing, as well as putting some of his pieces up online. I often wonder how that “works” – putting your art up
I’m sitting here just a little antsy to be off doing something different, something exciting perhaps, certainly something better than face booking my morning away. Yes I have seen some amazing “things” on-line – gorgeous trees houses, inventive coffee cups, creative videos of just about everything….etc…etc…. I love looking at what others have done, but
