The Beauty of Drawing
I have lost a favorite book. Many years ago, I knew exactly where to find it. But a fire that ripped through my house a couple of years back took it away from me, along with everything else. All was lost. The fire destroyed about 6,00 homes in Sonoma County in the...
The Natural Rhythm of Art
There is a natural rhythm to artistic work. It shouldn’t be rushed or forced, but, rather, it should be integrated into the core of our lives. I have a dear friend, who is a writer. She recently posted on Facebook that writing is a JOB. She actually capitalized the...
Spark of Genius
“Love for our neighbour, being made of creative attention, is analogous to genius,” wrote the philosopher Simone Weil in 1942. She probably could have found a simpler way to get her point across. But she is a philosopher after all. That spark of genius is a...










