We can grow as individuals and as a community (locally, nationally and internationally) by examining our views of death, what they say about us, and how it can help us while living.
Category Archives: Art
Broken Bowl, Repaired
A few months ago, I was killing time by meandering through the Columbia Museum of Art one Sunday (free admission day!), babywearing Espen while he napped (the quiet and dimness of the museum was so soothing to him), while Eric was in a meeting with a client. I make a point to drop into the Asian art […]
To the Mystery in a Cloud
I’m a terrible blogger in some ways. I’m whimsical, coy, and frequently silent. I blame this on being an INF(T)P (I also love blaming perceived flaws on personality types and star signs — I’m a Pisces — because it helps me bear them philosophically). Anyway, seeing as I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve been […]
American Athenaeum’s Colossus is Out!
Buy it, read it, love it.
American Athenaeum News and a Stevens Poem
More good news! American Athenaeum, the literary journal I’ve been helping to curate for the past several months, is just about ready to release its first issue, Colossus. It won’t be released until July, but we are taking pre-orders for print, e-book and PDF versions of the issue here. I’m proud of this work and excited to […]
Call for Submissions: American Athenaeum
American Athenaeum, a new literary journal, is seeking fiction, poetry and essays on a variety of issues.
Animal Images and the Image as Animal: Tricia Cline’s Exiles in Lower Utopia
I recently stumbled upon Tricia Cline’s porcelain sculptures (thank you, art pinners on Pinterest!). Her work has a quality that I tend to (mostly subconsciously) seek out and appreciate in all art forms — an otherworldliness, often lovely, but a little strange, unsettling, maybe creepy, though not in any particularly obvious way. Which is, incidentally, […]
Compassion and a Stevens Poem
My husband and I recently had a discussion/debate with a friend of ours who, on the subject of legislating compassion (or, more specifically, legislating in the name of compassion), pretty much said that without all of our elevated, civilized, moral compassion, we’d be “nothing more than animals.” While I’m a big proponent of compassion, I […]
The Magic of Creation: Remedios Varo
A look at Spanish Surrealist Remedios Varo and her work.
The Life Acrylic: Alexa Meade’s Painted People
Rather than painting realistic images on canvas, taking surreal photographs, or painting renditions of well-known art on human bodies, 24-year-old Washington, D.C., artist Alexa Meade has brought the three together.