Month: June 2013

Art, love and the romantic soul

The closest I get to a true religious experience is when I’m in the presence of art.Recently while at the De Young Museum in San Francisco for the Girl with the Pearl Earring Exhibit my daughter smiled and asked “are you going to have a religious experience today?”My answer was “yes I am.” And I did.

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An open letter to the Targets

Powerful words from a young blogger. A must read if you are a teen or live with one. 

 

Dear self-conscious, maligned, beaten down, broken whoever you are,Chances are that you don’t really want to talk to me or read these words and know that I am addressing you. But I am. You can either put up with that or click that little red cross in the corner. How are you? I hope that you are good, but are you feeling well? There is a difference and I hope that you can see it.

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The Wednesday Poetry Corner With Susie Bertie

I have had a lucky streak …. a fair number of years in the company of some stellar songwriters – one of my favorites  – songwriter, singer of songs and musician  Darrell Scott.  Darrell  writes songs that lean into the deep cuts of this land ; a little Country, a little Americana, a whole fishing bucket of poetry. There is timeless essence here,  and to tap that elxir, to weave that spell … well, any tribe of traveling minstrels or poets strive for that alchemy.

Read more at: The Wednesday Poetry Corner With Susie Bertie.