Dreams

When All Else Fails: The Power of Art

Jan 26, 2025

Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Sermon, Social Events, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality

acrylic-painting, AIDS Quilt, Antonio Machado, art, artist, artistic process, Cleve Jonas, creative process, Dreams, dreamwork, Edgar Degas, Gulf War, Lao Tzu, painting, Tao Te Ching, U2

“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…
When Dreams Die

Jan 10, 2021

Aging and Staging, Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Stewardship, Wellness

abundance, Dreams, failure, Parker Palmer, scarcity

Dreams. Not the ones we have while sleeping. But the dreams we have while awake, about the positive things we hope come true for ourselves and for the people we care about. We have a lot of those dreams, don’t we? Of course. This is how we move forward in life. Unitarian Universalist spiritual ancestor…