Category: Arts
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In the News: Truckers on Quilting and Knitting
Here’s some inspiration for an artist date: try out some textile arts. A recent Wall Street Journal article, “Idle Pastime: In Off Hours, Truckers Pick Up Stitching: With Less to Haul, Drivers Try New Hobbies; Quilting in the Cab,” features truck drivers who spend their downtime quilting, sewing and knitting. The fact that you can take strands…
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Anne Lammot on finding time
The April 2010 issue of Sunset Magazine published Time Lost and Found, an article by the writer Anne Lammott, in which she talks about valuing finding time for creativity: I begin with my core belief—and the foundation of almost all wisdom traditions—that there is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill…
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In the News: Using theater to transform a nation: South Africa’s Athol Fugard
Excerpts from the New York Times article on , “His Next Stop: Driving Out Apartheid’s Ghost,” by Celia Duggard The Fugard [new theater named in honor of the esteemed, white, South African playwright, Athol Fugard] is among many privately organized efforts — in culture, education and social services — that aim to help South Africa overcome…
Simone Monique Barnes 