January 2025
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“Painting is easy when you don’t know how,” said the immortal Impressionist Edgar Degas. “But when you do know how, it’s very difficult.” Lucky for me that I didn’t know how. Because a spring was breakingout in my heart. These are words from an Antonio Machado poem, and he says, Oh water, are you coming…
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Since its founding in 1970, the French magazine called Charlie Hebdo has been a vocal advocate for free expression and liberation from forms of power that demand unquestioning, unthinking obedience. It’s been the target of three terrorist attacks. The one in 2015 led to the death of twelve people including the man whose picture you…
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Becoming A Good Ancestor: Active Hope, Part 5
I’ll begin with a question: How many continents are there in our world? Do you know? There are seven: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. And, in ancient cultures from all these seven continents, what you find is belief that reality–composed of both the material and spiritual–is like a tree. The…
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