I have long held a view of life as art. In everything we do we can communicate beauty and grace, or ugliness and coarseness. Every word, thought and action we give birth to leaves an impression, not only on us, but on everyone within our circle of influence.
Esthetics are part and parcel of everyday life. [...]
In the spirit of promoting religious and cultural traditions from around the world, I have finally completed two website projects which took up the bulk of my time over the last two weeks. And though it took me away from my writing projects and my book proposal (a proposal encouraged by best-selling poet, author, and [...]
Over the last 11 days I had priorities that took me away from getting blog entries uploaded. We hired a friend of ours, a professional contractor, to come in from out of town to remodel our kitchen. And because it turned into a bigger project than expected (we discovered an old water leak from the [...]
“If you accept your thoughts as inspirations from the Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties, because they come only so long as they are used; or if your skepticism reaches to the last verge, and you have no confidence in any foreign mind, then be brave, because there is one good opinion [...]
No matter what creative work I’m engaged in, I have found this advice from Leonardo da Vinci to be imperative:
“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of [...]