Categories: Thoughts

• Fabulous quote that sums it all up!

  “Art is our one true global language. It know no nation, it favors no race, and

• Pondering creativity, change, and the Industrial Age…

  The thought dawned on me that artistic and creative expression can look many different ways, and likely we are all creative, since we were created in the image of our Creator. Therefore we must each have the desire and capacity to be creative.

• Great Quote by Henri Nouwen

  You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in — so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo and keep saying that a new world is yet to come. — Henri Nouwen

• Is art about expression, or is it history?

  expressions captured on canvas, in notebooks, on pages, on walls of caves…wherever there has been historic finds from places all over the world, at one point, you had an artist with a train of thought…with his/her life experience and surroundings…deciding to make a mark courageously, good or bad, and share his/her voice with the people around, and perhaps unaware, with people of the future.

• Poets and relationship with everything in the universe

  Just read and interesting article by a woman named Carol Dempsey about Creation and Covenant…I wanted to share it as it speaks of the Poets instinctively understanding the interconnectedness between everything in the universe before the scientists understood it… The birth of the new millennium has ushered in new discoveries and a “new science” that heralds groundbreaking news.  The entire universe is built on relationships.  But is this really groundbreaking news?  Perhaps it is to twenty-first century ears, but if [...]

• Sacred and secular unequivocally intertwined

  As I put my brush to canvas, or pencil to paper…or whatever my medium of choice, that God is right there too wanting to paint with me, to be part of my life and the processes of what I am doing, what I am communicating, what I am experiencing, what I am learning.