A new twist in our Gallery of Seeing… The Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922) devised the infamous “ink-blot tests.” Using a standard set of inkblots, they were used as a test to reveal one’s personality depending upon what one saw in each blot. Well, I think it’s more fun to look at the … Read More
Flashback – Artist vs. Businesswoman
I came across the following essay I wrote many many years ago, prior to selling my business. Now that I am a practicing artist again, come full circle, I thought I’d share it here. From a journal entry, 1990: An old class mate I haven’t seen in about 13 years called me the … Read More
Self Compassion
Is it possible to have compassion for oneself? If we understand compassion as the ability to experience another’s pain, how would it be possible to have compassion for oneself? Don’t we just, well, have our own pain and suffering? How is the notion of compassion for ourselves relevant? Somehow it is. Somehow it must be … Read More
The Metaphorical Road Trip*
You are heading towards California. You decide you want to go with someone else — company on the trip, share costs, more fun you think, ’cause you’ve gotten this far on your own and find yourself a bit lonely, a bit tired of doing everything yourself. You find someone compatible. The other person is on … Read More
A Gallery of Seeing, Musing…
It’s camellia time in the Low country! Even the cat enjoys the camellias… I still bring other flowers into the house. A habitual indulgence: Hmm…Fire and Air…any wonder they imitate one another? And now my other … Read More
The Question of Taste …
To walk the Way of Beauty and practice True Beauty aspires to transcend our culture’s ingrained notions of “taste.” Taste, as used here is defined in the dictionary as: the sense of what is fitting, harmonious or beautiful; the perception and enjoyment of what constitutes excellence in the fine arts, literature, fashion, etc.; the sense … Read More