Thought for the Day

Geography is life's limiting factor.

~Annie Dillard

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Quoted from Annie Dillard, "Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos" in Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters  (Harper Perennial, 1982), page 125

 

Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Nonfiction Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Short Story Writer,  and Editor

Thought for the Day

In the short-term, distractions can keep us from doing

the things we want to do. In the longer term, however,

they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives

we want to live, or, even worse, undermine our

capacities for reflection and self-regulation.

~James Williams

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Quoted from James Williams, Philosophers Take on the World, in Hala Alyan, "Turn Towards the Dark: Fear, Courage, and Surrender", Emergence, April 29, 2021

 

Hala Alyan, Novelist (Salt Houses, The Arsonists' City), Poet, Essayist; Clinical Psychologist

James Williams, Technology Ethicist

 

New Artist Watch Feature at Escape Into Life

 

Love, Bronze

31 cm x 48 cm x 8 cm

 

© Dan Reisner

 

PLEASE DO NOT COPY IMAGE

 

I am thrilled to feature the internationally known sculptor Dan Reisner as the subject of May's Artist Watch column at the online magazine Escape Into Life.

 

A multidisciplinary artist who specializes in outdoor sculptures, Dan, who lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel, creates visually striking works characterized by his deep awareness of the spaces in which he sites his large-scale bronzes. His creative process takes into account, indeed embraces and builds from, his reflections on difficult events, including, most recently, the death of George Floyd. (An image of this marvelous and moving sculpture is included in my feature.)

Today's Artist Watch column showcases eight of Dan's extraordinary works, and includes his Artist Statement and a brief biography, as well as links to Dan's Website and social media venues.

Thought for the Day

Who would turn down God?

~ Raymond Antrobus

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Quoted from Raymond Antrobus, "Echo" in The Perseverance (Tin House Books, 2021)

 

Raymond Antrobus, Award-Winning Poet, Writer, Educator

Read Raymond Antrobus's "Echo (A Deaf Sequence)" at Poetry Foundation

Mandana Chaffa, "Twelve Poetry Collections to Read in 2021", Chicago Review of Books, April 19, 2021

Thought for the Day

It is better to speak / remembering/

we were never meant to survive.

~ Audre Lorde

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Quoted from Audre Lorde, "A Litany for Survival" in The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (W.W. Norton, 1997)

 

Audre Lorde, American Poet and Writer

The Audre Lorde Project

Thought for the Day

As long as we deal with the real meaning of evil and sin by some 

means other than forgiveness and healing, we will keep projecting,

fearing, and attacking it over there ("scapegoating"), instead of

"gazing" on it within ourselves and "weeping" over it.

~ Fr. Richard Rohr

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Quoted from Fr. Richard Rohr, "The Scapegoat Mechanism", March 28, 2021

 

Fr. Richard Rohr, Franciscan Priest; Founder, Center for Action and Contemplation