Emily Wurm
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Emily Wurm
Fernweh is a longing to be away from home, a desire to be in faraway places. Fernweh is similar to wanderlust but, like heimweh, has a sickish, melancholy tinge.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
Soil, Soul and Spirit – Inspired by Dennis Klocek: Reconnecting the arts + sciences with their spiritual roots.
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For the Benedictines, gardening was an equaliser and nobody within the monastery was too grand or too learned to work in the garden for part of the day. This was a culture of care and reverence in which the gardener’s tools were to be treated with the same level of respect as the vessels of the altar. It was a way of life in which the body, mind
... See moreSue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
The creative act is inherently an act of courage.
Erwin Raphael McManus • The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art
Artefacts – whether early coins featuring the image of Muhammad or golden and gemstone-encrusted statues of the Buddha – were inherently flawed for, as theologian John Calvin declared, “the finite cannot contain the infinite”.
Art is one of the highest callings you could ever receive from God. You need to embrace the gift of art and stop doubting what God has given you and called you to be.”
Karen Covell • Create: Transforming Stories of Art, Life & Faith: 21 Essays by Leading Artists
Play is the work of the child and it is also the work of the artist.