New arrival from Slant Books, Bret Lott, Gather the Olives: On Food & Hope in the Holy Land, a memoir of time spent over the years in a place where (at the moment) it's hard to muster hope.

Don from South Carolina: “I am an ex-Trump voter…I cannot stress enough that I’m scared to death about Donald Trump returning to the White House…We cannot let Donald Trump ever see the inside of the White House again.”

Truth.

My son mike adapted this Rilke poem into a short video.

#TGIF I have never known a small child to be afraid of a blank canvas. (They usually approach one with abandon.) Find your inner child.

Makoto Fujimura Philip Yancey What a joyous image of eternity Makoto Fujimura, this gave me a whole new perspective of what art can be. Thank you for sharing this wonderful piece ♥️

Thanks to ⁦Makoto Fujimura⁩ for the considerable inspiration he has sent my way in the last year. hughcards.net/2024/04/25/mag…

This on Philip Yancey blog. My “The Aroma of the New” philipyancey.com/the-aroma-of-t…

Born #OnThisDay in 1785, #JohnJamesAudubon traveled thousands of miles to watch, hunt and draw his birds.

In the 1830s, just like today, people marveled at his birds’ liveliness, as if they might fly off the page in a ruffle of feathers 🕊️

🐦'Plate 102, Blue Jay' (1824–38)

We are all artists…until the third grade. Someone then tells us that we are not, and have we come to believe the lie.

Makoto Fujimura

You wouldn’t believe how many lies I have to overcome whenever I post one of these. 🙏

This 19th century painting of Lyman and Maria Preston Day with their daughter, Cornelia, was made by artist Deborah Goldsmith when she was just fifteen years old. Goldsmith is one of few women known to have worked professionally as an itinerant artist during that time period.

Sen. Mitt Romney: “70% of Republicans still say that Donald Trump won...Are we going to abandon truth to that degree? It’s absolutely absurd...Most of the evidence I’ve seen so far has been Republicans trying to corrupt the election.” (Oct. 2023)

#TGIF This is one of the most encouraging statements:

Creative minds are rarely tidy.

Pooh took down a large jar of honey. It had HUNNY written on it, but, just to make sure, he took off the paper cover. “You never can tell,” said Pooh. “I remember my uncle saying once that he had seen cheese just this colour.” So he took a large lick. ~A.A.Milne #fridayfeeling

George Saunders on how to live an unregretting life themarginalian.org/2024/03/11/reg…

Camille Pissarro, the early 1870s

.Liz Cheney: 'Americans want to be reminded that not only are we a great country, but that we're a good country...and you want your president to be somebody that you're proud for your children to look up to.'

Check out this line up for Embers International Gala! Join us remotely! ⁦Embers International⁩ embersinternational.org/2024-gala

The Fibonacci sequence appears in nature more frequently than one might expect; the branching of trees, arrangement of leaves on a stem, the fruitlets of a pineapple, even the spiral galaxies all exhibit Fibonacci patterns.