Celebrating Our Differences
Mental Happiness easily becomes shrouded by the limits of one’s mental ability to be clear. If we want to feel happy, we must sustain mental Happiness. The mind and body work in harmony. Happiness gets sabotaged when the brain is locked into a frenzy of problem-solving details…
I feel that the pandemic put us all in various precarious mental states regarding survival. This pandemic has been a thorny arena for me, a ceramic artist dependent on my Community Ceramic Art Studio at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago – my art home since 2012…
I initially had no intention of sharing my recent health challenge on Facebook but that all changed because of the awesome experience I had at the Clayman Clinic in Tampa, Florida. I wanted to share in the event someone else found themselves in similar shoes and was seeking…
To possess sound judgment or common sense; to have a clear understanding of a situation. Creating community, restoring community, and positively impacting communities have been a huge part of my life’s commitment. My family was part of the Great Migration. The elders instilled in us that moving…
One thing that marvels me the most is watching a baby nearing her seventh month leaning against the sofa. She’s ready to take that first momentous step forward. Then, as she moves gently away, she takes her first step and plops! That’s joyful to watch. The next thing…
Attunement: Covid Memorial at Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, 2020 Direction, as a concept, has a couple of implications. In one sense, a directional trajectory is often framed in some sort of action verb coupled with destination, heading north, falling backward, climbing up. In another sense, it…
THE PATH OF YOUR TRUE SELF When you are evolving, you are on the path of growth and following your true self. When you are static, you are following your lower self. Anytime you’re being less than your authentic self, you are creating and starring in an illusion…
Susan Peters, ” living a vigorously physical and intellectual life…” “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced” James Baldwin. I am in my seventh decade. A former runner, my sprint through life, along with that of other…
Insight has many definitions and applications of its usage. The meaning I favor: the act or results of understanding the inner nature of things, concisely best serves me in this article. The real quest is the depth of insight I need to arrive at to claim satisfaction. For example, how good is…
Man, every brush stroke comes with pain but it hurts more not to create.…This Baldwin quote is the truth. People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. Luis…