Did you ever sit down in the quiet solitude of your most private room and write a letter to Santa, pouring out your heart, and telling him that, if you could only have one gift for Christmas, it wouldn’t be a pony or winning the lottery or even world peace, but it would be to […]
Just what you always wanted Read More »
Sometimes when I read beautiful writing, or see a fabulous photograph, or find myself face to face with exquisite artwork of any type, instead of receiving with gratitude the gift God through the artist would give me, I envy. Or I despair. On one extreme I think, “I could have done that,” and on the
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I wrote about my love for Flash Mobs recently in a post about Community Art on The Master’s Artist. For one thing, I love the way they seem to erupt out of nothing. The more complicated the production, the more impressed I am when the participants pull it off. At least, that’s been my experience until now.
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I posted today on The Master’s Artist about Community Art, a topic that was largely inspired by the past two months I spent choreographing Bye Bye Birdie for Marshall High School. What a delightful privilege to work with such a talented and awesome bunch of kids! And guess what? You’re invited to join the fun! Performances
How does this happen? I turn my back on this blog for a few minutes, and next thing I know, two weeks have passed. There’s only one logical explanation. When I think of it, I’ll let you know. Oh, well. As I was saying, our last day in Seattle was more about stories than photos,
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Here are a few photos from our adventure last night: The sign outside Molly Moon’s Ice Cream in Wallingford. Molly Moon’s introduced a new flavor, Bumberberry, in honor of the Bumbershoot Festival which will take place Labor Day weekend. (Bob Dylan is headlining this year!) Fremont Abbey Arts Center asked Curtis and Grace to busk in front of the shop last
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I love to sing, but I don’t consider myself a soloist. At least not in any big, bombastic sense. I’m more of a blendy, BGV type of girl, happy to disappear behind a piano, layering mellow harmonies while someone else occupies the spotlight. I say all that by way of disclaimer, because I’m about to
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Confession: I know stealing is one of the big ten, but I couldn’t help myself. I stole this picture from Jubilee’s website. Everything about it makes love darts explode out of my heart like fireworks on the Fourth of July. (And not those wimpy back yard snap-crackle-poppers, either. I mean the really, really, ridiculously good
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When my daughter Grace was a junior in high school, she and her friend Mary Caton asked me to teach them how to play guitar. After they’d mastered the basic chords, we started working on various picking patterns. Then I taught them some songs that required more fingering agility. While I was demonstrating one of
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If you read the title of this post and thought, “Well, that’s Greek to me,” guess what? You were right! It is Greek. Literally it means “at the wedding chamber.” It’s also the title of the song Luke wrote and sang as Sarah processed down the aisle to become his bride last Friday evening. I