Daily news and imagined solutions regarding Russia’s devasting attacks on Ukraine can be heard and read via every news source out there. It is indeed horrific—Putin setting out to annihilate a country and its people in order to control pipelines and resources while expanding Russia’s land mass—not to mention putting the world on the precipice…
This past year of dealing with the viral pandemic has been a challenge for us all. I’m sure we all discovered just how much the e-charged world means to us. It has been our thread to every kind of connection–human, business, entertainment, and news. The lack of face-to-face contact with family and friends, the restrictions…
My website has just been beautifully re-vamped and I feel the urge to get back to blogging. Our chaotic and troubled times are influencing my thoughts and my work more and more, specifically environmental concerns. To me these concerns have become increasingly and clearly political—influenced by greed and ignorance. America has always been the promise…
Not just a metaphor—it’s an absolute fact that in and around Jacksonville, Florida there are many bridges to cross—east to west, north to south—all spanning the incredible St Johns River. The St. Johns River is the longest river in the United States—310 miles long, winding through or bordering twelve Florida counties. It is one of the few…
“The only way to examine a departed culture is through its legacy of artifacts. Like the Egyptian pyramids and the Pantheon of Rome we shall be known as The Great Road Builders. Marsha Glazière reworks these monumental formations into intimate landscapes. Coaxing the essence of sun-dappled glen from visually neglected industrial spaces. The resulting mosaic of…
One of the most special Christmas gifts I received on Christmas Day—was the NPR /CBC broadcast I heard on my drive to a family feast in Seattle. The speech was Martin Luther King’s Christmas Sermon given in Atlanta in 1967. It is the 5th of five MLK Massey lectures which were created in 1961, usually…