Okay, this is not going to be articulate and well organized, but, just so you know, I didn't flunk Freshman Composition ( Read more... )

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In the interests of promoting my spiritual/UU art works I have create this page:
My UU Art pageLet me know what you think ( Read more... )

#682
Beauty is before me, and
Beauty is behind me,
above me and below me
hovers the beautiful.
I am surrounded by it,
I am immersed in it.
In my youth I am aware of it
and, in old age,
I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail.
In beauty it is begun.
In beauty, it is ended
-- From the Navajo Indians of North America

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness, a sign that God is implicit in all creation. Or maybe you are not predisposed to see the world sacramentally, to see everything as an outward and visible sign of inward, invisible grace. This ( Read more... )

When you have a sense of art -- which means a sense of aesthetics -- it means a sense of the sacred, from an Indian point of view, because aesthetics and the sacred are two sides of the same coin with us, or even are interchangeable. When you say the earth is sacred, that is an imaginative, creative, artistic point of view. Because when you set out ( Read more... )

A great UU sermon on creativity.

The more I attend my UU congregation, the more the values we share pervade all that I do and think. I'm glad, too ( Read more... )

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