BEING COMPASSIONATE AND UNDERSTANDINGThis is from a newsletter that hits my inbox from time to time. Don’t give up. Over the past 18 months, humanity has been worn down by the pandemic. Life has not been easy and there may be additional challenges ahead. But as Winston Churchill once said, […]

We should have a class! Bex, get on it. (Please.) (Yes, I know that it is not your role. Umm, Emily?) Check out the Vancouver Film School YouTube channel .

FROM THE WASHINGTON POST “Ongoing research suggests that creativity may be key to healthy aging. Studies show that participating in activities such as singing, theater performance and visual artistry could support the well-being of older adults, and that creativity, which is related to the personality trait of openness, can lead […]

FROM CLAUDE MONET TO BRIDGET RILEY A writer with The Spokesman-Review in Spokane has written about five artists and particular works of theirs about summer. I always love learning about artists and their work. Take a look. Explore.

AND, FOR A TIME, ROOMMATES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8rTfLkS2l8

Sisters Joyce Wallace Scott and Judith Scott Learning of Judith Scott by Tim “Birch” Schooler Judith Scott, deceased, endured tragedy in her life, and her works of texture, color, and form attest to perception and intuition of her vision. They are multicolored treasures. Since the time when she was born […]

“My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.” — Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and writer

He Read My Lips Through My Eyesby Tyler Marcil Summer heat in Denver, Coloradosometimes unbearable.Instead of cooking one eveningmy sister, her son, his father, my sister’s friend and myselfdecided to have dinner at a restaurant downtown. My two year old nephew sat next to his dad, but across fromme, his […]

A GREAT SUGGESTION FROM A SINGER-SONGWRITER “One piece of advice I would give to anybody: get a bad guitar. It’s almost like a blank slate and creates a sense of freedom.”