Healing
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros The story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Esperanza’s thoughts and emotions are expressed in her fable-like poems and stories, which portray the alternating beauty and desolation of her life and its realities. Esperanza doesn’t want to belong—not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to …
Character Head
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 – 1783) was a successful sculptor whose work was sought by the royal Viennese court. In 1774 he lost his position at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna due to “confusion in the head”. Modern scholars suggest Messerschmidt suffered from mental illness and Crohn’s diseases. He dedicated his …
Healing Quote of the Day
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) discovered books and began drawing during his childhood when he was forced to stay indoors due to poor health. He once shared, “A little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters – sometimes very hastily – …
The Patience of Ordinary Things
Pat Schneider It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or toes. How soles of feet know Where they’re supposed to be. I’ve been thinking about the patience Of ordinary things, how clothes …
Till it Shines
Bob Seger Like an echo down a canyon Never coming back as clear Lately I just judge the distance Not the words I hear I’ve been too long on these islands I’ve been far too long alone I’ve been too long without summer In this winter home Still if we can make the effort If …
Artist Darla Rewers
My art keeps me balanced and practiced in transforming concept and intention into the material. It is my daily practice of manifesting that which I hold to be true and beautiful: love and healing. Growing up in Indianapolis, Darla Rewers always knew she was an artist. She also knew that she wanted …