“Once, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a gallery of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, I was asked, ‘What is the most important thing in this room?’” writes artist Gabriel Mills. “After a moment, I replied, ‘The air. After…
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“Wabi Sabi” is a small and lovely book that feels good in the hand – and the heart. Beth Kempton, an Englishwoman, has spent much of her life enchanted with Japanese culture. In this 2018 book, she tries to explain…
Good morning, friends! This special opportunity at LeQuire Gallery and Parnassus books came to my attention and I wanted to share it with you… For more information about the artist and her current exhibit at LeQuire gallery please click here….
The storm came through, as storms do. In its wake I found a branch nearly as tall as a man standing straight up in the earth. It had fallen from the highest reaches of the old bur oak, suggesting this:…
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe, by Richard Rohr, is one of the most thought-provoking and expansive books I’ve read in ages. In short, he perceives our world as one…
A few days ago my friend Caroline and I went on a field trip to three bookstores in East Nashville. She was in the mood for exploring, and I was game to tag along. There’s such a feeling of possibility,…
There are simply no words. Or rather – I haven’t found the right ones. Red and black ribbons have shown up on your mailboxes, in the colors of The Covenant School. They say to me “we grieve together.” They say…
On a friend’s recommendation, I picked up the 1970 classic, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person, by Hugh Prather. Color me impressed! Enchanted, even. It seems a perfect artifact of its time, in its zen-flavored earnestness, and…
Have you seen the Apple TV+ series “Severance”? Color me obsessed with this smart and suspenseful exploration of memory and identity. I’d put it in a category with “Stranger Things”, “The X-Files”, and “Twin Peaks” for imaginative brilliance, haunting visuals,…