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03/15 art with a lower case “a”
Art is intimidating. Although children usually make art spontaneously, most of us stopped doing art in our early teens. Unless you identify with being an Artist with a capital “A,” art may be something that you relegate to your talented
02/15 Ubuntu–The Universal Bond that Connects Us All
I (Gioia) found a new word the other day: Ubuntu. Apparently Ubuntu is a Zulu term for compassion and humanity, or human kindness. It means, literally, “human-ness.” I had been looking for a way to describe what we witnessed recently
01/15 Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Rulin’s
This time of year always calls for lists, all kinds of lists—“Best of..”, “Worst of …”, “Things for which you’re grateful”, “What you accomplished in 2014”, “Resolutions for the upcoming year”, etc…. We’ve been thinking about lists here at CWW
12/14 Other People Matter
“I believe that unconditional love will have the final word ” Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s been a challenging year if you listen to the news recaps. Ebola. Gaza. Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines. ISIS. Robin Williams. Girls here and abroad abducted
11/14 The Magic In Small Things
Think about three things that have gone well thus far in your day. Find a piece of paper and write them down. If the list gets longer as you’re writing, go ahead and add more When we start our workshops
10/14 Self-Symbols: Butterfly or Dragonfly
A few years back, Gioia went on a butterfly binge. Butterflies showed up all the time in her artwork. It seemed to make sense that butterflies appeared—she was going through a lot of changes in her life, many of them