“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?” —Annie Dillard, The Writer’s Life Writing as Spiritual PracticeThe journey to Truth has many paths. Certainly yoga is one of them. Ancient texts like the Yoga Vasistha, which has been dated from as [...]
Cape Cod is a mecca for artists and crafters, who are drawn to the peninsula’s vibrant landscape, its ever-changing moods, the luminescent quality of air and water, and the community of fellow artists and art lovers. Despite the challenge of making a living through art, many local artists give generously of themselves and their talents [...]
One of the wonderful things about women is their ability to bond and share with each other. We do it in all sorts of ways book clubs, parent groups, walking, and as Gail Tilton of Chatham has seen, through creating crafts together. Gail is the force behind the Crafty Chics, a group of Cape Cod [...]
The arts build the community as the community builds the art.” The Living Arts Institute’s mission is to strengthen community, health and wellbeing through social/civic and creative engagement. It fosters active involvement of people of all ages and backgrounds in creative formats to increase connectivity and fan the creative flame inherent in all of us. [...]
Healing through Art Amy Kinney’s Story & Art My name is Amy Kinney and I am an artist, teacher and advocate. When first hospitalized for treatment of depression, anxiety and an eating disorder, I began drawing pictures to express my unspoken feelings. The meaning of these drawings changed on the day I was asked to [...]
Close Encounters with the Nature of Music “This is my church, and I am here to pray.” The words bloom from my lips as I survey the assembled crowd seated on hard benches beneath a vaulted roof. I’d been waiting my turn to share who I am and why I’ve come to this gathering. One [...]
BREAKING THROUGH THE LAYERS Art cloth made during a class with Jane Dunnewold, a well-known and highly revered fiber artist. “The experience of the class and what resulted was cathartic and life-changing for me. I had been considering giving up being an artist altogether, and this experience gave me new direction and a renewed resolve [...]
Touch Drawing is a profound yet wonderfully playful and spontaneous process through which our hands are “no longer instruments of the mind, but organic extensions of the soul,” to quote Debra Koff-Chapin the originator of the process and founder of The Center for Touch Drawing. Listening within ourselves we connect with our intuition, our deepest [...]
Artist Peter Stone captures our essential connection to place in his powerful landscapes and words. The following images and words are excerpted from his book, Sanctuaries, where over twenty-five of his paintings are reproduced along with his poetic text. Peter Stone on Sanctuaries: “One of the themes of the book is that awareness of our [...]
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