Archive for September, 2007
Meet Judy Tart, Eclectic Reader & Wise Woman of the 21st C. Village
Judy and I have known each other since the early 1990s when I became a student of Sogyal Rinpoche’s and started meeting her at the Rigpa Shrine Room in Berkeley, California. The shrine room moved to San Francisco, so the Berkeley Shrine Room is no more…except vividly in my memory. However, my friendship with the [...]
Growing Our Art (Inspiration from Emily Carr)
“I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.” ~Emily Carr~ (Canadian author and painter)
Portfolio Gallery Shows “Visual Thoughts” through October 31st
Visual Thoughts Portfolio Gallery 3514 Delmar Blvd Grand Center, Arts, Entertainment & Education District St. Louis, Missouri 63103 Through October 31st Monday through Friday 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM & by appointment 314-533-3323 Portfoliogallery@att.net Robert Powell, Executive Director of Portfolio Gallery & Educational Center, alerted me today to a current group exhibit at the gallery [...]
Writing Prompt: Finish the potato salad story
I dove face down into the potato salad and… You finish the story.
Linda Della Donna’s Little Red Mail Box Interviews Janet Grace Riehl about “Sightlines” and “What’s it like to be living your dream?”
Linda Della Donna has a cool blog named “Little Red Mailbox” filled with print interviews, and now I’ve joined the throng. You can check it out by clicking here. Clocking in at around 2,800 words–quite long for an interview of this sort–it’s very in-depth–I’d say that Linda’s Little Red Mailbox is in danger of being [...]
Edna J. Patterson-Petty Sewing Up a Creative Storm
The phrase, “When words are too deep, try art therapy,” captures the spirit, work and person of Edna J. Patterson-Petty. A fiber artist, art therapist, and teacher, Patterson-Petty’s work truly heals, providing the comfort and warmth expected of the quilts she creates. Her graduate degrees in Studio Art and Art Therapy and the inspiration derived [...]
Edna J. Patterson-Petty’s “Intimacy: New Fiber Sculptures” Exhibit at David & Jacqueline Charak Gallery, Crafts Alliance
Today and tomorrow on Riehlife, I’m honored to feature one of the fine artists (very fine) I’ve encountered here in St. Louis. Edna J. Patterson-Petty has a show opening this week, so we’ll start there. Tomorrow you’ll get a closer and broader look at a warm woman just filled with wisdom for the village of [...]
Listen to “Memento-Mori: Life and Death, Moment by Moment”
Here’s the Audio-Link for my Septemeber 2nd sermon at the First Unitarian Church of Alton, Illinois. Click here for a link to listen to “Memento-Mori: Life and Death, Moment by Moment” (just the sermon) or the full service. Neither my father nor I were amplified for our violin-playing, but you can hear it if you [...]
Pregnant with Art (Inspiration from Julia Cameron)
“As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.” ~Julia Cameron~
Excerpt from Marj Casswell’s “A Place to Come Home To,”
From Chapter 1, “A Place to Come Home To,” by Marj Casswell (go here to buy the book) For years every pack of cigarettes I opened took me back to our tobacco barn. As the red plastic encircling the pack tore away and the silver paper lifted, I would stand under two-foot long leaves drying [...]
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