Hospitality. The word has been on my mind recently.
Over the weekend, my husband and I went to the closing reception for an exhibition at Still Point, a new art gallery in our area...
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Blessed Art Thou Among Women by Gertrude Kasebier. 1899. Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933.
The mother stands in the doorway beside a girl wearing a dark dress, tights, and shoes. Her long, flowing white gown has ruffles on top that remind me of angel’s wings. She’s looking away from the camera...
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“May is the new December,” a teacher friend recently said to me. For parents, teachers, coaches, and anyone else who works with kids, May could be the craziest month of the year...
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Do you have a favorite piece of art that has a story behind it?
Today, I thought I'd tell you about one of mine...
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Quiet streets in Fairhope the day after the 65th Annual Arts and Crafts Festival. For more photos of Fairhope and Mobile Bay, check out the links in the post below.
Have you ever been to an arts festival? Even if you don’t consider yourself an art lover, there are a lot of things to enjoy at a festival like this: good weather, a fun atmosphere, food from local restaurants or food trucks, and live music.
And of course there’s the art...
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Have you ever seen a photograph that filled you with longing? Or stirred something in you? Maybe it made you want to be there, wherever the picture was taken, experiencing whatever was going on in that moment in time...
Read moreThe Jar of Clay
Looking out the restaurant’s large window, I gazed at Main Street below. The street in this mountain town, Highlands, NC, which would be teeming with tourists in a few months during peak season, was now deserted on this chilly day. Inside was warm but almost empty...
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Have you ever picked up a book and were somehow changed by the time you got to the end? I have. Here's one that was pivotal in opening my eyes to beauty...
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