The Walk Mary Lou Sanelli February 2023 Once a month or so, I walk with a small group of women. It’s one of many routines that keep me sane and steady or at least help keep me sane and steady. We meet for company and exercise, of course, but we also like to blow off steam about the state of the world. ... Read More ►
Radical Farmwives: Math and the Farm-Schooled Boy Robin Bela Verson First published Summer 2014 After graduating from college, Paul Bela and Robin Verson met as farm interns at Farmer John Peterson’s Angelic Organics, nearly twenty years ago. After spending a few years working on farms around the world, they purchased their own farm in rural Metcalfe County, Kentucky, where ... Read More ►
Being with young children and their families is a privilege. One gets to see the earnest care and attention parents devote to raising healthy, happy, polite children. At a time when civility seems an old-fashioned and outdated concept, parents are striving to encourage “please” and “thank you” in their children’s vocabularies. This is an attractive alternative to the harangue of ... Read More ►
There is an advertisement picturing a middle-aged couple walking down the beach. As they walk, the woman’s image slowly dissolves, leaving just one beach walker. Families of people with dementia experience this feeling of dissolution and loss. In the early stage of dementia, the afflicted patients themselves can often feel loss and sorrow as their own organizational principle weakens; their ... Read More ►
Please tell us a bit about yourself, your process, inspirations, and artistic philosophy.[Text Wrapping Break] Hi there! Thanks for having me. So first off, my name is Ivan Potter-Smith, and I’m an illustrator, designer, and 3D artist. I love to explore the ways in which physical and digital spaces blend or overlap, so I create my artwork digitally and then ... Read More ►
by Tracy Karkut-Law As the days grow darker and colder, we need to find ways to stay warm and keep our spirits up. With this in mind, I’ve been learning about the Japanese philosophy of Ikigai: the value of meaningful activities to help us stay happy and well. Here’s what I’ve learned so far, and hopefully, there’s some inspiration for ... Read More ►
Could you start by telling us a little bit about Lightforms Art Center? How did the center come to be? What kind of work does the center support, and what are some of your guiding principles? In 2017 a group of artists began meeting around the idea of creating a multipurpose art center dedicated to spirit and art. After many ... Read More ►
by Nancy Blanning Things are different now. The pandemic is subsiding, to everyone’s great relief, though it is not gone. We weathered two-and-a-half years of anxiety and isolation as best we could. Everyone had to make sacrifices and realize that we did not have the freedom to go or do usual things—being with family and friends, sharing meals, attending artistic ... Read More ►
Can you start by telling us a little bit about yourself? What is your experience as an artist? What mediums do you work with? I first trained as a nurse during the 1960s when there was no television in the patients’ rooms, and volunteers came to the hospital with crafts and games for the patients. I always thought the volunteers ... Read More ►
By Nancy Blanning How human beings learn the way things work—achieving a new skill or following a sequence of thoughts—is an interesting question to ask. For adults who want to learn something new—juggling, sourdough starter preparation, or washing machine repair—the internet and YouTube are often where we go first in our modern world. We watch the video, follow the steps ... Read More ►
