Category: Ideas
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What Animates & Illuminates?
3–4 minutes·
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“This feeling… of alertness to the inner-spirit of things — this humming — comes from a hard-earned understanding of the impermanence of things and, indeed, our own impermanence. This lesson ultimately animates and illuminates our lives. We become witnesses to the thrilling emergency of the present — a series of exquisite and burning moments,…
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Moving Forward – With All My Strength
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As I write this I am home in Point au Roche and getting ready for a move west to Colorado. The stay in this house has broken the record for the longest time living in any one home… almost fifteen years. The longest I lived in one place before this was as a child in…
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Find Your Park Through Art
5–8 minutes·
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I am a printmaker, environmental sculptor, exhibit designer, writer, photographer, graphic designer and museum professional. I just completed an eight year tenure as Director/Curator of an exceptional museum in northern New York founded by Alice T. Miner in 1924. These days I travel – drawing, photographing, running, biking and hiking in some of the most inspiring…
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JH Guthrie and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
We all feel we have interesting characters in our family trees. One friend of mine has a quote on a pillow on their living room couch that states proudly, “My family tree is full of nuts!”. Recently I have been delving into photographs of some of my ancestors sent me by my father. I know very…
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Simplify!
Lately I have been concentrating on simplifying. Namely, paring down possessions by selling and giving things away to friends and strangers. Living in the land of plenty we tend to collect possessions – it’s a deeply ingrained priority of our society… One that is so accepted and so closely followed that one can seem strange to coworkers…
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Heroes
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I had heroes as a child… they changed often and had more to do with my interests at the moment than any lifetime guidance. For example, during the few years I played soccer in middle school I really looked up to Brazilian football player Pelé. But, it was in my twenties when I truly discovered Amelia…
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Visuals to Inspire
Artists are always looking at other imagery to find inspiration. In fact, a few of my art teachers steered me towards other artists work – from photographs to drawings and paintings, to learn to draw what I saw. The internet is a wonderful source for inspiration since I can find multiple images of whatever strikes…
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Fox Spirit I am Paying Attention!
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Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) are common in North America. Indeed, Red Fox is one of the most geographically widespread of the carnivores in the world, not endangered by any stretch of the imagination. But these wild, night wanderers are not often seen. When you are fortunate enough to see one, even from a distance, it’s…
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WanderNotes
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WanderNotes 28 September 2013 Northbound 35 morning – point au roche to chazy 44 degrees, 92% humidity cold on the bike… the canada geese leading me north, talking, talking, talking as they fly and land and take off and land and eat corn… fog clinging to the corn, and still being made over the…
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Ode to a Lost Friend
There was once a young man named Chris Blew, he worked in a bookstore in San Francisco – the best bookstore I have ever entered actually – Green Apple Books. We were pals… we watched bad movies together and the occasional t.v. show… always while munching on junk food. We also rode bikes and worked…
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Crows’ intelligence, new research
Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog: This video is called Joshua Klein: The intelligence of crows. From Scientific American: Crows Show Off Their Social Skills New findings on crows’ intelligence lend perspective on how social smarts evolve By Harvey Black August 26, 2013 The intelligence of the corvid family—a group of birds that includes…
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Engineer as Artist in 1588
When it comes to books we all have our preferences… I appreciate a story that draws me in so fully that I forget to eat dinner. And, as a visual artist, I am naturally enticed by drawings and prints. Since my first summer on the job, one of my favorite books here at The Alice…
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Po’pay – Pueblo Indian Hero
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Sometimes, when wandering the internet (often late at night) I actually learn something! I was checking out some Hopi dances and videos recently, when I stumbled onto an article about the unveiling of a statue honoring Po’pay in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. The short story of Po’pay is this – in 1680 Po’pay…
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Each Day is a Gift
My fundraising to help find a cure for Parkinson’s Disease began essentially by default. The town nearest my home was holding it’s first ever half marathon, and the founders of the run had chosen to raise the money for Team Fox. I had two friends locally who were fighting the disease… and I had raised…
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