Art is no small thing. If it ever seems that way, it’s because we live in a time when so many things that matter most have been made to seem trivial, or secondary. The materialism of our era uses matter but doesn’t engage with matter as sacred. Art offers this level of relationship. It’s a…
Why does it matter to get our hands into matter and create something new? I love the double meaning of “matter” because in a long era when mind and spirit and enlightenment and many other concepts have been set above earthy, messy matter, when we want to say that something is important we still say…
The Burning Times For those of us who are of European descent, our great great great grandmothers were connected to sacred land. Herbs and seasons and cycles. Groves and rocks and trees that were particularly for women. But Europe became most unkind to women’s wisdom. It was a long slow process, as Old Europe was…