There is so little gardening activity to be done right smack in the middle of winter- at least until seed starting time comes (next month!), it seems like a great time to work on home improvements. As promised, I have some updates on the projects we worked on over the holidays. The man and I kind of split things up. I worked on repainting the laundry room and changing out the ceiling light fixture there. He worked on replacing all the…
art & spirituality
September 19, 2016Julia Cameron makes the statement “Art is a spiritual transaction.” In fact, it is the very first sentence in the introduction to the 10th anniversary edition of The Artist’s Way. I suppose that belief depends on one’s outlook, as do many things. She points out that artists throughout the centuries have spoken of inspiration coming through God or the angels. Steven Pressfield has some really cool things to say about this topic in The War of Art. He quotes Xenophon, an…