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”
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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: 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”
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