It took a long time for me to have my first real art experience. It happened when I saw Paul Klee’s 1928 abstract painting “Howling Dog” on a college road trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, in 1983, and became mesmerized … read the rest here …
Paul Klee … an encounter with art … Read More »
(Book of Divine Works) … on the cover of JAMA …
Hildegard von Bingen’s Liber Divinorum Operum Read More »
… Sulmasy and Somerville …
the value of suffering at life’s end … Read More »
“Mystery is not the absence of meaning. It’s the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.” Dennis Covington – Image Journal 77
Mystery … defined … Read More »
… It’s been a few years since I added to my ongoing list of “books I wish they’d made me read in school” … Lencioni’s Death by Meeting is a penetrating parable of management culture today.
death by meeting … Read More »
… Liz Lev on Benedict XVI on beauty and the arts. Greg Wolfe, Brian Zahnd, Stratford Caldecott take up similar themes. Ego sum … William Congdon.
beauty will save the world … Read More »
“Those of us who have spent time in the company of people with mortal illness have learned from them that we are always challenged to know more and to help more effectively but, above all, to listen. Sometimes there will be no answers to give to those in apparently desperate situations, and we find ourselves
face to face … with our own need Read More »
… a grade school teacher’s suicide reveals our (therapeutic) culture’s reduction of grief to a disease that needs to be cured … rather than a mysterious journey on which we accompany each other. Wikipedia IMDb Rotten Tomatoes streams on Netflix
“In the past few decades, there has been an increase in the use of life review techniques to improve mood, cognition, and quality of life among elderly individuals. The underlying theory is that late life depression is often caused (or at least worsened) by an inability to remember the trajectory of one’s life. By reliving
