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Teachers
I recently completed MOOC on Coursera through Duke University that was spearheaded by Cathy Davidson called "The Future of (Mostly) Higher Education." Reflecting back on the experience - I am...
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On Gratitude and Sabbaticals
Picture it. This morning driving to the library - a regular occurrence if uninterrupted internet is needed - I was looking up at the sky at an eagle soaring overhead and nearly smushed a wild turkey...
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the end of the book.... (again)
More from This is not the end of the book; by Umberto Eco and Jean Claude Carriere. I am still thinking about it and re-reading parts of it. Background: It was recently translated from the French...
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hurtling back and forth
someone should wash the windows in this studio....but this is kind of beautifulHaving one of those moments, weeks rather.It's not that things are not working, they are working splendidly. Perhaps it is...
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Mindfulness
It’s profoundly tempting to dismiss as cant any word current with Davos, the N.B.A. and the motherhood guilt complex. Mindful fracking: Could that be next? Putting a neuroscience halo around a byword...
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Article 19
The piece from a recent Portandia called SHOCKING ART SUPPLIES makes me laugh every time I watch it. The cameo by Shepard Farey is perfect. It's not that a majority of the art students that I have...
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the examined life of the class of 2015...
What does it mean to live an examined life?I can hardly believe that I am going to quote philosopher/theologian Thomas Aquinas - if only because my father used to quite him to me constantly and it...
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Trouters
Currently have the honor of spending some time at the Trout Lake Limnology Station as artist in residence. The station is an active place - doing year round limnology research with undergrads, grads...
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Research. Practice. Methods.
I had the gift of spending two weeks traveling around Lake Michigan in June. Stops included the HASTAC Conference, seeing family and friends, searching for lupines and doing research for the upcoming...
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Scrambled Eggs Benedict
Yesterday afternoon looking at Facebook, I came across a post by Nate Pyper (this is a link to his tumbler account - but he is plugged in to many social and professional media sites). On Trend List he...
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Article 14
details from the Chagall stained glass window - Chicago Art InstituteMiss Eva is wearing earrings shaped like old time Christmas tree bulbs. and they blink blink blinkas she walks to the altar...
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Hope and Action
For a long time, I've thought that the purpose of activism and art, or at least of mine, is to make a world in which people are producers of meaning, not consumers, and writing this book I now see how...
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These days....
The news is so sad and outrageous these days. My heart breaks. At these times, when the bleakness of rhetoric and hatred seems impossibly overwhelming, I want to lift up the love I have been blessed...
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Chaos and Mess
Last week in a writing workshop David said, "Chaos and mess means thinking is going on." I wrote it down. Having heard it before in various permutations, "let's get messy" or "mess signifies you are...
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History Lessons or Why One Hides in Books
What do you do as a year ends, having endured weeks of intense emotion - with seemingly more ahead? How to make sense of it, can you make sense of it? What can you compare it to - can you compare it...
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BONSAI TREES AND PRAYER VIGILS
DISPATCH ONE:In Washington DC for the March For Our Lives tomorrow. Over a million people are expected. Groups of young people spent the day visiting their legislators and walking the mall, the city,...
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W. AFRICAN RESTAURANT & CARRYOUT
DISPATCH TWOThis is where Joe and I found ourselves after the March For Our Lives today. A small business near Howard University, with seven tables - packed with people ordering take out and sitting...
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Long Car Rides
This is how you feel when you spend too longin a car and really cannot find a comfortable positionfor any length of time. The ways we chose to propel ourselves from one place to another. Interesting....
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Daffodils - NO. April blizzards - YES.
It's not even mid-April anymore, it's past that. First day of Spring? Long gone. We had a few days where you could go outside and rake the flower beds, things were sprouting - looking green. The...
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Reflections: Summer 2018
MGoBlog / flickrBats.When the sun goes down and the birds are quiet, the bats come out. The light from the porch sends a warm glow and the bugs are attracted to the screen. Slivers of black flash...
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Those nights when you long to be Ireland
Between the Jigs and the ReelsBetween a jig and a reelwhat is there?Only one beatescaped from a ribcage.Tunes are migratoryand fly from heart to heartintimatingthat there's a patternto life's pulls and...
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TIME AND LOVE
My eldest gave me a record player for Christmas. Which I am loving for a lot of reasons. At some point, I gave him all of my vinyl - and all of my father's vinyl. Which I am going to get back soon...
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What the heck just happened???
Happy 2020 to us all.This was the last line of the last post I wrote on this blog.It's not like I haven't written anything this past year. But when it came to writing something that reflected on what...
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Island Time.
Iron Ore Bay, Beaver Island, Michigan Part OneIn the middle of February, in a tantrum that was...
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