Category Archives: Art and Artists

Dharma art

Posted on 6 November 2009 by

I wish to urge students of the dharma who may have forsaken their creative impulse in favor of practice to realize there is no conflict between creativity and meditation. Creativity can be understood, in essence, to be the practice of … Continue reading →

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The holiness of beauty

Posted on 12 September 2009 by

Today is our neighborhood’s annual community yard sale, situated in the park that divides the main street into north and south (or, more precisely, northwest and southeast).  My husband went out around nine a.m. to get a cup of coffee … Continue reading →

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Your earworm of the day

Posted on 27 April 2009 by
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Ta-da!

Posted on 2 January 2009 by

Behold my shiny new header, made for me by my friend Megan Amoss. It’s my little hermit shack in the city.  *enthuses*

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New links!

Posted on 10 September 2008 by

Have I mentioned Anglican solitary Maggie Ross before?  In the 1980s and 1990s, she wrote several wonderful books on the liturgical year, solitary life, and the theology of priesthood which are now, I say joyfully, back in print and available … Continue reading →

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Tapping the strands of the web

Posted on 29 June 2008 by

The New Yorker has a fascinating and slightly horrifying article about itching and how medical understandings of it have changed and are changing. Mental Floss shows us some of the art of Henry Darger–janitor, recluse, untutored visionary artist. Head Butler … Continue reading →

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