Monthly Archives: March, 2013
Healing Quote of the Day
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
Closer to Fine
Indigo Girls I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains There’s more than one answer to these questions Pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive Closer I am to fine – Post by “RockAndfunk” – More from Indigo …
John Thornburg of JAR
I approach my music as if it is my only option. A lot of the time, I truly believe it is. Music makes people happy! I love making people happy! Just getting some sort of idea or message out there is really something. In the end, it is the bigger picture that drives me. …
The Big Burn
Timothy Egan Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as …
Fantasy
Robert Beauchamp Robert Beauchamp (1923 – 1995), along with his six siblings, was orphaned at the age of three and raised during the depression in communal housing in Denver, Colorado. After receiving encouragement from his high school art teacher, Beauchamp immersed himself in art books from the public library and spent countless hours at the …
Better Now
Collective Soul Let the word out, I’ve got to get out Oh, I’m feeling better now Break the news out, I’ve got to get out Oh, I’m feeling better The world’s done shakin’ The world’s done shakin’ The world’s done shakin’ me down -Better Now From the album Youth by Collective Soul
Artist Keith Maddy
When I view my favorite works I experience wonder anew each time. How wonderful, how creative, how amazing, how incredible, that this piece has come from someone’s imagination, through their mind and hands, and into reality. Keith Maddy was raised in Pembroke, Massachusetts as the last of 7 children. His mother’s …
Mathilda Savitch
Victor Lodato Fear doesn’t come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She prefers to look right at the things nobody else can bring themselves to mention: for example, the fact that her beloved older sister is dead, pushed in front of a train by a man still on the loose. Her grief-stricken parents have basically been sleepwalking …
Nana Luna
Paula Nicho Cumez Artist Paula Nicho Cumez was born in an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala which suffered extreme violence during the civil war years. She draws inspiration for her paintings from the women in her life, her Mayan heritage and culture, and from her dreams. Through her artistic gifts and determination, she has broken …