There’s math, and then there’s magic math. In the first kind, sums are tidy, predictable, and remain neatly where you put them. The ledger is quiet, its straight lines creating orderly little cages for the well-behaved numbers that slumber there. In the second kind, sums shimmer and disappear, reappearing in another country, another pocketbook, another [...]
Ideas, sketches, drafts, notions, hints, and creative niggles are the butterflies of our artistic lives. They flutter into view and thrill us with their color and promise. Suddenly, the world is alight and shimmering with beauty. But how quickly those delicate wings can flutter away! How many times have I, bone tired, lain in bed [...]
So much happens when you are teaching, learning, and living the arts! Here are three quick “snapshots” from recent days, each followed by a “focus” – a new clarity – which, I hope, will help you see your artistic life with refreshed eyes. Does it make you practice? “How did you get on this week? [...]
Gabhaim Molta Bríde ~ I praise Brigit Says the hymn, and I do, with all my heart. Brigit is our bringer of Spring, our looker after of the lambs, our warm one who stirs up the fire and settles you in the most comfortable chair with a cup of tea. She’s an Irish [...]
