A Peace of My Mind

As we move into the Memorial Day weekend, I am aware that I don’t personally know anyone who died in military service. Nobody. I certainly know women and men who have served, even though less than one percent of our population has done so. I know people who have been injured both physically and emotionally through the experience of combat, but I haven’t known anyone who has died in military service. Last week I was in Grand Lake, Colorado for […]

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Colorado is nice this time of year. Today, I visited Mesa Elementary School in Boulder and spoke at an assembly for a few hundred students. One first grade teacher returned to her classroom and asked her students to share what they had learned, and this is what they said. Sometimes we make life complicated. These young ones understand things we seem to forget. Maybe they will grow up and sort out some of the mess we big people have created. […]

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I often hear people express ideas in ways that resonate when we set up studios. Sometimes they are ideas I am familiar with, but they say them in new and articulate ways that make me see things with a new clarity. It is one of the things I love about this exercise of  our studio days. Last week at Pacific Lutheran University we asked people to answer this question: “How has your college experience allowed you to build bridges?” and […]

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I don’t tend to preach here, but I got a chance last week in chapel at Pacific Lutheran University. And I’d like to share it with you here.  I should tell you that I’m not a theologian, I am an artist. I can’t quote a lot of scripture. I’d be hard pressed to recite all ten commandments, although I think I get the general idea. But this project, in fact, is rooted in my faith, and I keep coming back […]

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