I came across this on Instagram (@hayfestival) a couple of weeks ago: These words were written by author Arundhati Roy.  They are the concl...

Inspiration for the New Year of living and creating: Martha Graham gave this advice to Agnes de Mille shortly after she choreographed Okla...

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar Degas I found this quote in just about the most difficult spo...

  "Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation...." I found thi...

Musings as we spin from the old year to the new one..... I've liked this quote for many, many years.  It is from Letters to a Young ...

"Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted." ...

Aren't these little crafty women just so sweet?  Heads bent over their needlework, a nice cuppa tea on the way. They are ...

My son and I, when he was around 10 or so, read through the whole series of Oz books by L. Frank Baum.  There is so much more to the wor...

A short while ago, I got a most wonderful email. A woman wrote that she had seen and enjoyed my quilts at an exhibit a couple of months ag...

I've spent some lovely hours on a sad and comforting task, helping a dear friend plan a memorial for her father by looking for good ...

I've been caught up in a book by Elizabeth Goudge called "The Bird in the Tree". It's a rather slow moving story - o...

After I graduated from college in 1977, I stayed on campus, working on the data base of one of the profs.  I spent most of my days on the c...

"It's no good getting old, if you don't get artful." I found this quote somewhere, so long ago that I don't ...

Two friends posted links today to really delightful art by and about women who sew.  I hope you visit, and find a happy interlude to you...

The poem " Invisible Work " by Alison Luterman has long been one of my favorites.  (Note: It is the second poem on the linked ...

"Oh, it's outrageous to consider creating art, isn't it? But life is short. And intense. And we need art to inspire and amus...

Years ago, at a show of Native American art, I fell in love with the sculptures of Nora Naranjo-Morse.  I also fell in love with this statem...