Playing with Abstracts, Loving the Process
I was surprised by how much I love painting abstracts. Just playing with color, design, textures is so freeing and …
Category Archives: Love
Stepping Barefoot into Reality with D.T. Suzuki
I love this photo of the Zen sage D.T Suzuki. He was one of my first “gurus” if I, or …
Celebrating Poetry: Blown Away By Matthew Dickman
In celebration of April as the National Month of Poetry, I’ve been looking back at posts on poetry that I’ve …
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Love, Power, and Economic Justice
Celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King days before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the …
O Holy Night, Ablaze in Light
Star_birth_in_Messier_83_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope) “Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.” The single-most, salient symbol of Christmas, for me, is …
Mothers & Other Lovers, Compelling Art
What makes compelling art? Why do I find this image of mother and child, and the ones below, so powerful and …
To Mother the World
The novel I am working on is about relationships between mothers and children and all the ways that is expressed, …
Sexy, Smart, Sweet, & Soulful
Finally! I found what I was looking for when I wrote the post Speaking of Erotica, a “steamy love story …
Whitman – Where the Sensual & Soulful Merge
Walt Whitman is indeed that poet who sings the body electric, who shows how the sensual and the soulful mirror …
Speaking of Erotica . . .
. . . have you read anything hot lately? Perhaps it was the convergence of Valentine’s Day and the release …
