Dream of Water: Tears Become… Streams Become… at the Park Avenue Armory
Darkness falls as an acclaimed pianist begins a recital devoted to music about water. Slowly the hall becomes a lake. It might sound like a dream, or maybe just the …
Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; …
The Perils of the Sea: Thoughts on Deep Water
Isolation heightens our self awareness. Is it what we lack or what we bring with us that frightens us most? Can you imagine sailing completely around the world alone without ever once …
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more …
Picturing Consciousness: Out of the Deep Waters by Katherine McDaniel
Exploring our inner landscape can be as challenging as exploring the world around us. How are these two worlds linked? My newest painting is called Out of the Deep Waters. It’s about …
Quote for Today: Barbara Hurd
In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in …
Echoes of Water: Drumming by Katherine McDaniel
Humans living in modern cities have access to medicine, food and abundance. Despite opportunities, why are many of us unfulfilled? A few years ago, Houston Grand Opera sponsored a magical program …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason — its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it …
Water from the Air: The Miracles of Warka Water
Billions of people lack access to clean water and adequate sanitation. Is there anything creative people can do to help? The picturesque and rugged high plateau region of northeast Ethiopia …
Quote for Today: Norman Maclean
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. …