July 1, 2025 In honor of Canada Day and in deep regard for our neighbors to the north of the USA, I am pleased to post a poem by Canadian poet and photographer Monique Heintzman. Today seems a particularly fitting day for this poem after our Senate has just approved (by one vote) a billContinueContinue reading “Resisting and Resilience: Rootedness”
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Resistance and Resilience: Dragon Princess
June 19, 2025 This current blog continues to explore the themes of resistance and resilience in the arts, especially in the context of the current upheavals across the globe and in the USA. Recent contributions may be found at https://spirit-reflections.org/blog/ under “Writings.” This poem is a response to E. Reid’s poem from May 27 whichContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Dragon Princess”
Resistance and Resilience: Plowshare Prayer
June 9, 2025 All art is a form of resistance. We are living in a multi-chaotic world where all sorts of actions call for resistance: abuse of power, authoritarianism, bigotry, fascism, poverty, racism, nationalism, sexism, etc. I would add that all art is also a form of resilience when we ground ourselves in creating, inContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Plowshare Prayer”
Resistance and Resilience: Love
June 2, 2025 Art in any form is resistance. This blog is an invitation to submit any works of art that speak to resistance against the injustices of these current times and to resilience that keeps us grounded in hope, truth, and love. Former submissions can be found here under “Writings” : https://spirit-reflections.org/. Today’s submissionContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Love”
Resistance and Resilience: Grow
(c) Photo by Teresa Culbert May 30, 2025 As a poet and novelist, I’m fortunate to meet regularly with a group of diverse creatives: a poet/photographer, a poet/photographer/musician, a prose writer/poet, a watercolor artist, and a quilter. Most of us have never met personally, our group a blessing that grew out of Covid 19 andContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Grow”
Response to “Liberty”
May 27, 2025 As those who follow this blog know, the theme has shifted to how the creative arts can guide and ground us during these turbulent times around the world, but especially in regard to the current administration in the United States. Resistance and Resilience are the key guidelines. Over the weekend, I postedContinueContinue reading “Response to “Liberty””
Resistance and Resilience: Liberty
May 24, 2025 On this Memorial Day Weekend in the United States, we remember and honor those countless men and women who gave their lives for our freedom and who fought to safeguard our democracy throughout our unfortunate history of war. With those freedoms and our democracy being threatened this very day, I am pleasedContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Liberty”
Resistance and Resilience: 1
Enos Mills, the “Father of the Rockies,” traveled throughout the Rocky Mountains for years, communing with animals rather than killing them for food or safety. May 20, 2025 A couple of days ago, I introduced a new theme for this blog: https://spiritreflectionsorg.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4817&action=edit. I extended an invitation to all artists to join this gathering place, envisioningContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: 1”
An Invitation to Resistance and Resilience
May 15, 2025 Over the next several months, or perhaps years, I’ll be concentrating on the themes of resistance as an act of courage and resilience as an act of resistance through the use of the arts. I recently hiked the Rocky Mountains and was captured by both actions expressed in nature all around me,ContinueContinue reading “An Invitation to Resistance and Resilience”
Easter ~ Rise Up
April 20, 2025 Rise Up Rise up, for the tomb is empty,our call clear.Rise up to shine the Light.Grind the dried palmsof betrayal under your feetand raise the lilies of peace.Piece together the torn tunicAnd make it a garment of unity.Drop the silver coinsinto the hands of the hungryand feed his sheep.Turn out the falseContinueContinue reading “Easter ~ Rise Up”
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