Breaking news: My Swift Swallowtails will be part of Lincoln Park’s Artrageous Show later this month. I am super-excited! More info to come. Last week I finally sent some cards over to Operation Write Home (and got a truly lovely notification of receipt back). I’ve followed this organization for a while, and had lofty plans […]
Category Archives: Musings and Inspiration
“Once there was a tree…” ~ Shel Silverstein in The Giving Tree Speaking of books and letterpress, the Botanic Garden had some lovely works on display in their library this weekend, tying it back to the Block Museum Exhibit I visited recently. I drove there to see Treewhispers, a special exhibit that ends April 8. […]
“… it’s important to remember that all of us are a crucial part of the environment influencing our world’s future women. Our ambition, our work, our efforts to obliterate the gender gap, and our relentless refusal to give up are paving the way for the next generation, just as our mothers, aunts, and grandmothers did for […]
“I’m not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: ‘live-acy’. I’m more interested in living.” ~ John Glenn, age 90 (in February 20 issue of People Magazine) When I first started researching the artistic life, I would scrutinize the background of artists, and sift through their blog to see if they had won […]
“Bees draw the good out of a flower source and transform that into something sweet and good. I see that as a metaphor of looking to seek and draw the good out of people.†~Brenda Palms Barber On Tuesday I attended the Black History Month Innovation Panel hosted by WIN. The panelists’ credentials were impressive, […]
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“With her, beauty comes. The winds flee before her and the storm clouds; sweet flowers embroider the earth; the waves of the sea laugh; she moves in radiant light. Without her there is no joy or loveliness anywhere.” ~ Edith Hamilton, Mythology There she is, in LOVEly company at Dick Blick Art Materials. You can […]
Happy Friday! It’s been surprisingly mild and the sun is coming out more often again, which puts a smile on my face.  As a breather from my book research, I read about John James Audubon’s interesting life while sipping hot chocolate recently. Reading about him coincided with watching a wonderful documentary about birds with […]
“It is more important to live intensely and love wholeheartedly than it is to worry whether you’re doing the wrong thing. Trust your inner knowledge.  Slow down, you will deal with the future when it is present.†~Cassandra Lorius in Mandalas and Meditations Last week a lot of snowmen melted, and so did my resolve. Snowman […]
Since SOPA is front of mind in the blogosphere today, I’ll hold my scheduled blog for Friday. As a journalism major, both copyright and freedom of speech are important to me. Here are some articles I read: Understand Today’s Internet Strike: SOPA, PIPA and a Free Internet Wikipedians hate SOPA, PIPA, and liver We Need […]
The past week was spent getting my house in order for 2012. Mopped floors, clean clothes and the new shower curtain smell make me feel quite accomplished! I read a bunch of follow-up information and then ‘crashed’ a little Monday from the ideas mulling in my brain, the shift in goals from new years resolutions […]
