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What is Art? Everything.

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Loving the Children

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Two Blue Houses, a painting

May your path be joyous on this Thanksgiving 2021.

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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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Cold Poem. By Mary Oliver

Cold now. Close to the edge. Almost unbearable. Clouds bunch up and boil down from the north of the white bear. This tree-splitting morning I dream of his fat tracks, the lifesaving suet. I think of summer with its luminous

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The Hero’s Path. Life lived as a Poem.

Originally posted on Charleston Through an Artist's eye:
We have not even to risk the adventure alone/ for the heroes of all time have gone before us /The labyrinth is thoroughly known/ We have only to follow the thread…

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The Kiss, a painting. For you, Valentine.

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Logos. A poem by Mary Oliver.

Why worry about the loaves and fishes? If you say the right words, the wine expands. If you say them with love and the felt ferocity of that love and the felt necessity of that love, the fish explode into

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Everything. A Painting

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Helen’s legacy, The Power of Love

“Real power is usually unspectacular, a simple setting aside of fear that allows the free flow of love. But it changes everything.”  As a child growing up in the fifties and sixties in segregated North Carolina, I saw my own

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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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