DrawBridge tells the story of my brother Steve (book’s illustrator), and how he communicated through artful elements. Today’s elements are Space and Shape. The book came out June 1st, 2019. These blogs are an introduction. Non-verbal moments and elements of daily life inspire me, and also inspired Steve. What inspires you? The seven Elements of […]
Leading up to the publication of DrawBridge: Drawing Alongside My Brother’s Schizophrenia in May of 2019, a braided poem lauds three of the seven Art elements: LINE in poetry and art, TEXTURE and FORM in an artful food-tasting. Stay tuned for more art elements braided into text over the next few months. Of ART’s seven […]
Writers’ 10th Annual Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival: Winds of Inspiration What was it about the wind at the Summer Dreams Festival at Trout Lake Park (aka John Hendry Park) on Saturday, August 24, 2013? Was it how it stretched the cirrus into alluring fingers, or how the lake rippled and late summer leaves rustled? […]
Hydraulic fracturing. Nursery rhyme? Or crime? Don Quixote, the first fictional character, was a dreamer. ‘Sand castles in the sky’ was just one of many. What are sand castles in the sky? Big plans, no substance. In gas and oil extraction, we humans march in with big plans like Jack and Jills, trudging uphill with […]
The Power of Poetry: A Review by Joan Boxall ‘The Power of Poetry’ by Geoff Olson, writer and political cartoonist, is the centerpiece article in March, 2012’s ‘Common Ground’ magazine. Looking at our politically and economically pressure-cooking world through history, Olson shows how poetry still matters in “its own fugitive…hard-to-quantify (and) subterranean way.” Whether “shoehorned […]
Vancouverite with Vagabond Tendencies segue to ‘Having Being’ Part I, II,III Read and Sung by Joan Boxall May 11, 2012 TWSRead @ Take 5 Café, Vancouver Growing up in a protective environment gives rise to rebellion. The secure home where I lived was a corner lot, fenced in, conifer-lined, and cast late-afternoon shadows. Other homes […]