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Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go through life in a daze. A power failure makes us aware of what a gift electricity is; a sprained ankle lets us appreciate walking as a gift, a sleepless night, sleep. How much we are missing in life by noticing gifts only when we are suddenly deprived of them.
David Steindl-Rast
The Special Collections Library at UGA holds a wonderful collection of Leonard Baskin’s work, like this frog intaglio print. To be able to see these in person is a real treat.
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The Museum of Everyday Life
Glover, VT
Excerpt from “This is Love – Second Manifesto of The Museum of Everyday Life”
A gift from a lover, a family heirloom. A note, a paperclip, a pocket knife, a picture frame: in the museum of everyday life a million invisible threads are tied to our fingers, ears, lips, and eyes, which are tied to every object, which are tied to the lips, ears, fingers, eyes and hearts of other people. The web is invisible. The object is seen, can be picked up, and cradled.
Today the Department of Awesome Natural Phenomena is enjoying the wondrous spectacle of a murmuration of starlings undulating in the sky over the Netherlands. Filmmaker Jan van IJken captured this extraordinary sight for a short film entitled “The Art of Flying.”
The art of flying is a short film about “murmurations”: the mysterious flights of the Common Starling. It is still unknown how the thousands of birds are able to fly in such dense swarms without colliding. Every night the starlings gather at dusk to perform their stunning air show. Because of the relatively warm winter of 2014/2015, the starlings stayed in the Netherlands instead of migrating southwards. This gave filmmaker Jan van IJken the opportunity to film one of the most spectacular and amazing natural phenomena on earth.
Below is a 2-minute condensed version of “The Art of Flying.” Click here to watch van IJken’s full 7-minute film.
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
Monoprint-Monotype: Interview with Sarah Smelser
Here I Stand, 2013 Trace monotype, 16 x 20 inches....
http://monoprint-monotype.com/2016/12/06/interview-with-sarah-smelser/ Here are perhaps some of the most crucial words to hear--
MM&S: What advice would you give artists just starting out in this technique?
Sarah: Get off your phones! Stop texting and live your life through activity and experience. Don’t get hung up on success or failure. Just work, work, work and then take some time to see what you have done. Make notes about your tendencies; try to figure out what kind of artist you are. Journal as much as you can. Write about your influences, dreams, and goals. Be present.
Don’t worry about money until you have to, and try to gain experiences that make sense rather than make money. Some of the best and most fruitful experiences I have had were unpaid internships. I worked at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop after my first year of graduate school, trading intern time for my own studio time. I think that was the first time I felt like an adult and truly took ownership of my life.
Image: Here I Stand, 2013 Trace monotype, 16 x 20 inches
There are people in America who overemphasize our unity yet fail to appreciate the importance of our diversity, just as there are those who emphasize our diversity yet fail to appreciate the importance of our unity. It is imperative that we honor both. It is our unity and our diversity that matter, and their relationship to each other reflects a philosophical and political truth outside of which we cannot thrive.
Marianne Williamson
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