CREATIVITY in the SANCTUARY
. . .. . “CREATIVITY in the SANCTUARY” Adapted from a presentation to the congregation of The Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church (13 November 2022) . "This…
ENSO
Ensō Monday, February 22, 2021. Up at 6 then again at 7:30 & browsed bedside book, Ensō, by Audrey Yoshiko Seo’s (2007) and suddenly felt its connection to epiphany (Wikipedia): …
FRAGMENTS
FRAGMENTS A revived and revised diary entry from 6 June 2020: . In my 1960's Manhattan years, I edited and produced a "little magazine" titled "FRAGMENTS." Snips of prose, poems,…
A&O READING: “WHY WRITE?” (Paris Review 2022)
ART & ORGANISM READING annotated and glossed WHY WRITE By Elisa Gabbert (July 6, 2022 The Paris Review) I encountered Joan Didion’s famous line about why…
A&O – ART FORMS and CULTURE
ART FORMS are venues for creative self-expression and as such are inhibited or facilitated by the culture in which an artist is embedded. Umwelt (an individual's sensory world) and socio-cultural embeddedness…
ALEPH
Letter to David Harris and David Balenson (April 2022): Hi David … a typical night for me: up for a while in the middle of the morning. Below are my…
A&O – COGNITION
ART & ORGANISM COGNITION Cognition involves patterns of neural activity, processing takes place through the propagation of activity via excitatory and inhibitory connections. Learning and memory arise primarily through the modification…
TRUTH
ART & ORGANISM TRUTH and REALITY . [i] Vasil Woodland Creation said: “I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the…
The Red Blossoms
Summer road-tripping, mid 1960's. The Red Blossoms were visible as soon as we crested a rolling hill in the North Dakota countryside. A summer road trip meandering cross country…
Napping in the Redwoods
July 3, 2021 NAPPING in the Redwoods After puttering & sputtering all morning I was finally making progress on my presentation for IACEP-2021 Then I took a break, poked at…