Two Views from a Cage: Adjoining Cells by Katherine McDaniel
When two people settle into a pattern of behavior it becomes increasingly difficult to change habits. In some cases, it may be that those very habits are all that connect us. For some …
The Essence of Green: Thoughts and Pictures
Imagine for a moment a world without the color green. What a sad place! What does green mean to us? The modern English word green is derived from the same …
Quote for Today: David Byrne
I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry – poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs – is …
Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
SONG OF THE STAR I am nothing but Oxygen and hydrogen, A luminous sphere of plasma Held together by helium and gravity, And like a balloon I float on …
Following the Twerge: Incubator by Katherine McDaniel
In the process of making art we can learn so much about ourselves. How does creativity help us understand life? Yesterday, I took a trip to the craft store with my …
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole— A bonewhite light, like death, behind …
Quote for Today: Richard Bach
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can’t see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people …
What’s That Ticking? Clocks in Spielberg’s Lincoln
There are many things that go into the making of film that we, as viewers, never think about. Some of these require a great deal of thought and art to …