I was waiting for someone to come along, some young singer 18 to 22 years old, to write these songs and stand up,” Young said. “I waited a long time. Then, I decided that maybe the generation that has to do this is still the ’60s generation. We’re still here.” ~ Neil Young, Los Angles […]
Warning: One house isn’t big enough for 3 collage artists. All forms of record keeping interest me. Since receiving my first “Dear Diary” when I was 10 years old, I’ve gone on to keep photo albums, dream journals, baby books, and scrapbooks. I’ve always enjoyed making collages, but when my Asheville potter son, Josh, began […]
Like the alchemists of medieval times who sought to turn base metals into silver and gold, potters seek to transform clay into vessels of beauty and function. And they do. They dig raw material out of the ground, mix oxides into glazes, and forge their wares with fire. There’s a fairytale quality to a potter’s […]
That’s me, a 5’ 1” mom standing on my toes to pose with my 6’2’ son, Josh, in front of a display of pots that were part of the show he was a co-curator of. The exhibit opened at Asheville’s American Folk Gallery and was the result of a grant that Josh and his colleague, […]
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. ~ Ernest Hemingway “Strong in the Broken Places” was the theme of the art show that hung on the walls of The Glade Baptist Church where I met with the woman’s book club group that had just read my book, “The Jim […]
You’ve heard of an art installation? My friend Jayn’s whole house could be one. Her art can’t be separated from the life she lives and the place she lives it from, an old Appalachian country home with a flower child touch and an artist’s manifested vision. Last week when most everyone else I knew was […]
It’s been a while since my Floydian friend, Fred, wondered out loud on his web log, Fragments from Floyd, about publishing a blook. According to Fred, a blook is a “Fredism” that means “a book that has risen out of someone’s blog.” Last May he wrote this: You start a blog, not knowing exactly where […]
“I have two ears, and they both hear something different, and I’m in the middle.” ~ Richie Havens at The Lyric, Blacksburg, Virginia. Red and ornate, The Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg reminds me of the old Boston City Music Hall where, during the 1970s, I heard Jessie Colin Young, Sly and the Family Stone, […]
Enclosed in the package was a CD of photos and a small 3×3 note cut from a framing mat that read: I wish I had written you a long letter telling you how much I love you. Instead I wrote a little note that said the same thing. I love you, mom. But I didn’t […]
Tiny Shrines 13 Cups: A book by A’court Bason ~ To open this book is to step through a threshold into a world of moon counting, tea leaves brewing, translucent colors, and kind stars. Printed in a small quantity and using local resources, it’s a handwritten work that includes poetry, journal entries, I Ching configurations, […]
“The challenge is to do the thing you have to do because you’re in love with it and can’t do anything else. Not because you want to become famous or rich, but because you will be unhappy if you can’t do it.” – Warren MacKenzie The following conversation took place over the phone as my […]
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But, if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. – George Bernard Shaw I returned […]
