France
“Shoot First” Laws and Self-Mastery as a Way to Peaceful Interactions
Hello readers, I received the following e-mail message today from ColorOfChange.org, a non-profit organization that works to promote equal rights for minorities in this country. ” Jordan Russell Davis didn’t have to die. Last Friday, the 17 year-old Black teenager was shot in a Jacksonville convenience store parking lot after a dispute over loud music.1 He […]
Healing Through Social Media
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/25/opinion/iaconesi-cure-open-source/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 Dear readers, Please read the article (see above link) on CNN.com, if you have not already. Salvatore Iaconesi, pictured above, was recently diagnosed with brain cancer. As an artist, computer geek, and creative individual with a strong sense of personal and communal responsibility, he decided to open up his personal life and medical files […]
Laughter: Path to Living the Mystery
Dear readers, Thinking about life, love, creativity, and art are some of the things that make me feel very happy. This morning, as I was shelving holds at my library job, I was thinking about laughter and humor. I love to laugh, and I think we can all agree that laughter makes us feel as […]
The Lost Symbol
In art school, more specifically at the French national art school, I learned that using symbols and visual symbolic language was not a good thing if I wanted to be a good contemporary artist. Good art at the time was cool, made with expensive and impressive materials, such as extremely large full color photographs, preferably […]
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