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What is Art? Everything.

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May the Blessings Find you.

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The Intriguing History of the Black Madonna

The following piece, published by BBC Culture, in 2018, feels beautifully relevant today in America, as we reel from the weight of a pandemic and of our history of racial injustice, now too public to ignore. Edisto Island, and the

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What if the Virus is the Medicine?

Jonathan Hadas Edwards & Julia Hartsell wrote the essay below: What if the Virus is the Medicine? The emerging pandemic is already a watershed of the early 21st century:things won’t ever be the same. Yet for all that the havoc

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Mary Jane Oliver, September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019

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It is the Light. Winter Solstice, 2018

Wishing Light and Love to you as we celebrate the last dark day of this year. Love, Charlotte

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What can we learn?

Travel makes you modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert Anthony Bourdain, food writer and cook, died this month. Here he speaks to Patrick Radden Keefe at the 2017 New Yorker Festival.

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Watch Night.

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Day 12. Ode to the Light. Winter Solstice, 2017, a painting.

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Day 7. Blue Allee, a painting

$99. free shipping no tax This is a theme that keeps speaking to me. It is about the history, the mystery and the stories that whisper from the wild woods and from the ancient tree allees of live oaks in

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What’s this?

Welcome to my blog about the Lowcountry of South Carolina, a place proud with beauty, history and art. Sometimes we feel a call, to be, to go, to do. I was called to be an artist, and as an old midwife from Alabama said, “If the good Lord wants you to do something, you won’t have no good luck until you do it.”

So here I am writing about what I know, about the 'under glimmer' as the poet Basho, says, the way I have learned to see, to notice. I am inspired by, and talking about the history and art and culture of this place that has called me to herself. By the ancestors.

My background includes a degree in fine arts from a small private college in Florida, and before that, four years of all girls' boarding school in Asheville. I worked as a professional photographer, helped my children grow up, and now and I love seasoned things, good food, better conversation, beauty, my beloved and beautiful Italian Greyhound, Beau. Moved by the sacred places and stories of this beautiful historic land called the Lowcountry, I am here in spirit and I hope to infect you with my love of this place.

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