Thought for the Day

If I insist on giving you my truth, and never stop to receive

your truth in return, there can be no truth between us.

~ Thomas Merton

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Quoted in E.J. Dionne, "The Catholic Bishops' Anti-Biden Project Is Backfiring" (Opinion), The Washington Post, June 27, 2021  (Note: Pope Francis quoted Merton in his 2015 speech to Congress.)

Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Trappist Monk, Catholic Writer

Thomas Merton Center

Thought for the Day

To live with ugliness, we must hallow loveliness

the more, remembering that it often springs

from mud into light-filled air.

~ Dr Judith Farr

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Quoted in Emily Langer, "Judith Farr, Scholar of Emily Dickinson and Poet in Her Own Right, Dies at 85," The Washington Post, June 23, 2021  (The excerpt is from Farr's poem "What Lies Beyond" in What Lies Beyond: Poems (Deerbrook Editions, 2019).)

 

Judith Farr Website

Grace Cavalieri Interview with Judith Farr

New Artist Watch Feature at Escape Into Life

 

Motherland, Oil on Linen, 2020

66" x 48"

 

© Bo Bartlett

 

PLEASE DO NOT COPY IMAGE

 

I am delighted to present the work of painter and filmmaker Bo Bartlett in this month's Artist Watch at the international online arts magazine Escape Into Life.

 

Bo, who lives and works in Columbus, Georgia, is known for his large-scale oil paintings, which one arts essayist describes as not only "delicate and austere" but also "humorous and bizarre." They belong to "a sort of nameless, indistinguishable, dreamscape America." A recipient of numerous painting awards, Bo has had many solo shows and has shown in group exhibitions across the United States.

For today's Artist Watch column, Bo has provided images of eight paintings recently on view at Miles McEnery Gallery in New York City; an Artist Statement and biography; and social media links.

 

 

Thought for the Day

Someday we will learn how to live.

~ Naomi Shihab Nye

 

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Quoted from Naomi Shihab Nye, "What Changes"

Naomi Shihab Nye, Award-Winning Palestinian-American Poet, Author, and Editor; Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry), Texas State University

 

Naomi Shihab Nye at OnBeing

Thought for the Day

When two loving individuals, two bearers of God's image,

are unified in an erotic embrace, there is space for something

holy. What was separate has come together. Two spirits, two

bodies, two stories are drawn so close that they are

something together that they cannot be alone. There is unity.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

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Quoted from Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation (Convergent, 2019), page 20, in Fr. Richard Rohr, "The Holiness of Human Sexuality," Center for Action and Contemplation, June 6, 2021

Nadia Bolz-Weber, Lutheran Pastor and Writer

Fr. Richard Rohr, Franciscan Priest; Spiritual Leader; Founder and Academic Dean, Center for Action and Contemplation; Author