December 4, 2025
Living in the Changing Light
Experiencing the stillness of Advent in a room of one’s own.
Category: Writing
November 19, 2025
My First Glimpse of Beauty
In my exploration of how I came to discover beauty, I landed on ONE undeniable truth.
November 6, 2025
So much beauty. So little time.
Keats wrote that a thing of beauty is a joy forever. But when does someone begin to recognize a thing as “beauty”?
November 4, 2025
When A Great Tree Falls
To passersby it no doubt was not a great tree, but for me, it was a great signpost, perhaps even a lodestar.
October 29, 2025
Gathering My Thoughts
Meet Laura Ellen Bacon, an artist who uses natural materials to create astonishing cocoons and spaces that integrate with their surroundings.
October 28, 2025
What Do You Care About?
To create your art — in its myriad manifestations — start with the question, “What do you care about?”
September 11, 2025
Sunrise Tornado Watch
Risk and grief fueled the story behind my first place sunrise photo.
July 31, 2025
Sunrise Animal Speak
The natural world and animals speak to us every day, but yesterday at sunrise I “heard” something very rare.