AprilApr 9 Wednesday 08
Clean Green Studios is a Virb
How to fit these puzzle pieces together: home design, mission trips, creativity, collaboration. I was cogitating on this puzzle back in August, as you can see by my first blog.
Well, now it's April, and Clean Green Studios is not only now a real company but actually …
DecemberDec 9 Sunday 07
Simple.
Was reading C.S. Lewis' book of collected letters the other night. In the 1950s he was asked by a young aspiring writer, a little girl, how to write. He responded with six or seven wise suggestions, one being, "Turn off the radio."
In 1994 I had the rare, …
OctoberOct 27 Saturday 07
How did the poetry reading go?
Since so many friends want to know (I'm including my imaginary friends here), I'll report on the Portland poetry reading of Wednesday night.
Elizabeth Archers and I were asked to read at Northwest Library. I was expecting a steel building 5 or 6 stories high, but it …
AugustAug 26 Sunday 07
Jeffrey Overstreet interviews me on art
Art critic (or should I say art healer) Jeffrey Overstreet, author of Through a Screen Darkly and Auralia's Colors, asked to interview me for his brand new site. The site is called The Eagle and Child, or as C.S. Lewis and friends called the Oxford pub where they'd talk …
AugustAug 24 Friday 07
Fireflies are small things
Small things don't get enough credit, though they help hold up the heavy world. Atoms, carbon molecules, weeds, sparrows and fireflies are small things. One little word in season, a piece of art in a window display or a scrap of music in the car driving by--these can …
AugustAug 18 Saturday 07