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Clarence Jones Reflects On Martin Luther King Jr. : NPR. I heard this author interviewed on NPR in the car today.   I want to read his book.

Why Nests? « Art of the Natural World. Liza Myers is a painter of unusual gifts.  I admire her work because she connects many of my loves; nature, history/human culture, and connection itself.  This is a wonderful blog entry about what she does.  Enjoy!

Tex-Mex mosaic by Lynn Bridge I grew up eating Tex-Mex cuisine.  At the time, ‘cuisine’ was considered too fancy a word for what was served up in Texas restaurants with woven sarapes and over-sized sombreros hanging on the plaster walls, but now scholars of cooking

The Boy in the Manger a photo by Lynn Bridge Someone asked me how I made this photo, so here’s the story. There is nothing glamorous about it! I started doing ‘movement’ photos last spring when I would walk through Zilker Park and see beautiful nature that was interrupted

Now here’s a Christmas message for you, straight from the mouth of the prophet Isaiah, who lived… oh… say, 2800 years ago.  Isaiah said, Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth

Last night, my husband and I heard a performance of our favorite professional choir, Conspirare, in Austin, Texas. The director, Craig Hella Johnson, about whom I’ve written previously, imaginatively combines songs of the Christmas season with folk songs, rock songs, and

Castle Moon by Lynn Bridge Last night, at the beginning fusing and slumping class taught by Jim Berry of Blue Moon Glassworks, we saw our projects that had been in the kiln from the week before.  Altogether, the 7″ dishes had a great variety of textures, colors, and themes.

I got a ‘wild hair’ today and decided that, instead of hanging this piece, World-wide,  INSIDE while it is waiting to go out to a show , I would display it OUTSIDE.  That is the beauty of mosaic- it is fairly easy to make a mosaic that is both light-weight and

Grinning Dog by Lynn Bridge I hope that today’s post amuses you AND encourages you to stretch out and try something new. In anticipation of taking a class from the British mosaic artist Martin Cheek (in Austin in February), I needed to learn how to make my own fused glass