how to reassemble a broken heart
My heart has broken so often it is covered with tape and bits of glue, it’s misshapen, and at times it limps along behind me, barely keeping pace. After a break it never returns to the way it had been; after each fracture the pieces slowly find their way back to each...
where art and literacy meet
this coming august 25th I'll be the featured author at the Literacy Action Center's annual fundraiser hosted by local Utah artist Pilar Pobil. I visited her home and gardens last month to introduce myself and spend some time becoming familiar with the setting for the...
the paint
of all the horses, it is a paint that corrals my eye, my heart. he stands alone, on a patch of grass twenty yards from his nearest bandmate. his stance is perpendicular to the herd, the eye that faces the others wide and deeply aware. muscles bunch under smooth hide...
which you are we talking about
in conversation last week, a friend bemoaned the fact that he was recognized in the community as an exceptional physician and educator. he felt narrowed, constricted, by this validation from society. I, in turn, bemoaned the fact that I was likely seen as more...
a town isn’t a town without a bookstore
"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul." ~neil gaiman yesterday I spent a few hours in Dolly's Bookstore in park city, utah. Dolly's first opened in the...
a pen and a notebook
terry tempest williams wrote her book finding beauty in a broken world in an attempt to increase understanding of our world's staggering suffering. she writes of spending time in rwanda working with a small group of americans, known as barefoot artists, to create a...
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