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Riehl Life Village Wisdom for the 21st CenturyRiehl Life Village Wisdom for the 21st CenturyCreating connections through the arts and across cultures. 
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John Rozelle?s Sanga Series represented at St. Louis Art Museum and Salon 5
2008-03-11 21:25:00 TWO ROZELLE WEBSITES View images of John Rozelle’s work at his website by the same name and also at Sanaa Productions where you’ll find marvelous collages for sale. _________________ QUOTES “Well, its like jazz: you do this and then you improvise.”—Romare Bearden Rozelle has long lived by the slogan “Every symbol tells a story,” and he’s become quite an accomplished ... More About: Series , Louis , Museum , Salon
John Rozelle?s Conjunction Project of Mixed Media on Paper Panels & Canvas
2008-03-11 20:42:00 Go to John Rozelle’s website to see images from the Conjunction Project . This exhibition is dedicated to my late friend and mentor, artist, Arthur Osver 1912 - 2006 Conjunction.1. a joining together. 2. a combination, such as events. 3. a word functioning as connector between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as, and, but, however. 4. ... More About: Media , Paper , Canvas
Curator Andrew Walker Re-tells the Story of African American Abstraction at
2008-03-11 20:28:00 “Art is about possibility…it is capacious; its history is ever-changing;and what is lost is only lost until you see it again,” says Holland Cotter in his NY Times essay (April 7, 2006) “Energy and Abstraction at the Studio Museum in Harlem.” St. Louis Art Museum’s “African American Abstraction: St. Louis Connections” brings that capacious, ever-changing, history ... More About: Story , African American , The Story , Andrew
Phillip Hampton?s experimentation with acrylic media demonstrates thin line
2008-03-11 20:17:00 (Phillip Hampton ’s work is honored at the St. Louis Art Museum’s African American Abstraction: St. Louis Connections.) David Bonnetti at St. Louis Today.com says: Philip Hampton, the fourth artist featured, is sort of odd-man out. Rather than developing here, he moved to the area an already established artist to teach at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. The most radical ... More About: Media , Line , Acrylic
John Rozelle featured in St. Louis Art Museum?s ?African American Abstracti
2008-03-11 19:20:00 The Saint Louis Art Museum African American Abstraction: St. Louis Connections, an installation of thought-provoking abstract works from both the Museum’s collection and local private collections features artists Oliver Jackson (born 1935), John Rozelle (born 1944), Phillip J. Hampton (born 1922) and Michael Marshall (born 1953). John Rozelle’s abstract mixed media works communicate profound emotional content ... More About: African American
African American Abstraction: St. Louis Connections at St. Louis Art Museum
2008-03-11 19:06:00 Click here to watch Naomi Silver’s three vivacious interviews with Curator Andrew Walker, Artist Phillip Hampton, and Artist John Rozelle—all discussing the current African America Abstraction: St. Louis Connections which runs through March 23rd at the St. Louis Art Museum . More About: American , African American , St Louis
Naomi Silver founder of Culture Surfer.com (Your Window on the World) honor
2008-03-11 18:58:00 I met Naomi Silver at the Friends of African American Art seminar on Black Artists and Abstraction at the St. Louis Art Museum this January. Here’s what Culture Surfer says about Naomi and her award: Naomi Silver, a native of St. Louis, is the creator of CultureSurfer.com. Her years of experience as a political consultant brought ... More About: World , General , Founder
Black Rep?s tour de force: August Wilson?s ?Radio Golf,? ends powerful cycl
2008-03-11 18:26:00 “The first time I hit a golf ball, I felt free!” “When your way get dark, turn your light up high.” The title comes from Roosevelt Hicks’ “Radio Golf ” radio program…and the theme of “Blue Skies”…”Stay out of sand traps” ripples throughout. On Aunt Esther’s porch at 1839 Wiley, “Everybody expresses themselves indifferent ways…different meanings…[even] scratching your head.” “You ... More About: Force , Black , Tour
St. Louis Black Rep Company brings Soyinka?s ?Death and the King?s Horseman
2008-03-11 18:09:00 Wole Soyinka, playwright, “Death and the King’s Horseman” I saw this play performed as part of the Wole Soyinka symposium in Carbondale, Illinois and I’m eager to see it performed again, right here in St. Louis . The St. Louis Black Rep Company describes Wole Soyinka’s play “Death and the King’s Horseman” in this way: Considered by many to ... More About: The King
Thich Nhat Hahn Room Featured Communion of Institute of Noetic Sciences? ?S
2008-03-11 17:24:00 Beautiful multi-media presentation fully worthy of the topic “The End of Suffering.” Brooks Cole who hosts the Thich Nhat Hahn Room introduces it in this way: Very seldom as a media artist do I have the opportunity to be so moved by the material that I am composing with that tears are streaming down my face. ... More About: Grace Notes , Sciences , Featured , Institute
Mortgage Lending: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth?Ful
2008-03-10 12:59:00 If you want in-depth information on one of the most important issues facing the American economy today, read this article on mortgage lending in the SSRN’s Working Paper Series, co-written by ELIZABETH RENUART and my niece DIANE E. THOMPSON. ORGANIZATION: Social Science Research Network: Tomorrow’s Research Today TITLE: “The Truth , the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth: Fulfilling ... More About: Credit , Mortgage , Lending , The Truth
Hardworking Roses: abundance and generosity multiply like rose petals
2008-03-10 12:31:00 Janet with a sampling of Daniel’s Hard-working Rose s You’ll recall I recieved two dozen roses this Valentine’s Day. As it turns out, both bouquets were from one man, my sweetheart of yore, my dear-hearted friend of now, Daniel Holland, of Lake County in Northern California. As it turns out, Daniel ordered one dozen roses and Fortune ... More About: Abundance , Generosity , Multiply
Love is a Place: Sister?s Ashes Find Natural Great Peace on Land She Roamed
2008-03-08 14:28:00 love is a place by e e cummings love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds Child and Hawk Dream by Judy Tart Please read my post on Love of Place: “Land Blesses and Embraces Sisters Ashes ” by clicking here. More About: Peace , Natural , Great
Snowbound: Filling the Feeder (a new poem by Janet Grace Riehl)
2008-03-07 20:05:00 A foot of snow atop our bluff: Evergreen Heights, Jersey Township, SW Illinois. Mother, that which you filled and then emptied, we fill again as best we can. Your chair hold us at the wheelhouse hub, yet a glance windowward unfolds and holds worlds beyond. This morning’s world insulated in a snowy rug. Cardinal families flit-flash at the new-fangled feeders Daddy fills ... More About: Write , Grace , Poem , Janet , Feeder
Blogging Basics 101: Getting Started and Keeping Going
2008-03-07 19:41:00 Go to either the Women Writing the West blog or the Independent Authors Guild Blog to read my take on blogging basics. It’s easy to get started, but it takes passion to stay going. Mission drives your blog to stay the course. This post on these two blogs for two writing organizations I belong to are adapted ... More About: Blogging , Basics
Rubén Martínez ?Why We Fall For the Fakes? in L.A. Times illuminates curren
2008-03-07 16:18:00 “Ironically, our appetite for ‘reality’ fare has created an audience for the phony memoir,” says Rubén Martínez in today’s L.A. Times article “Why we fall for the fakes.” Click here to read the entire, excellent article. More About: Fakes , Fall
Amazon?s Democratic Jungle: Case study, Wole Soyinka?s new memoir ?You Must
2008-03-06 20:30:00 First off, let me say I consider that the reader section on the Amazon book product pages are, for the most part, best termed as “comments” rather than “reviews”—which usually would be rather over-stating the case. Secondly, I am frequently appalled by the casual way in which readers in these comment sections reveal their ignorance, not ... More About: Africa , Study , Democratic , Jungle
Medicine for Memoir Scandals: Truth or Consequences for Margaret Seltzer, a
2008-03-06 19:37:00 Tracking the Fallout of (Another) Literary Fraud By MOTOKO RICH Click here to read about the author of ?Love and Consequences? who confessed she “made up the memoir about her supposed life as a foster child in gang-infested South-Central Los Angeles, the focus turned to her publisher and the news organizations that helped publicize what ... More About: Truth , Medicine , Scandals , Slate , Memoir
Chocolate of the Day: Dagoba Eclipse
2008-03-06 19:06:00 Dagoba organic chocolate, eclipse 87 percent cacao content, extra dark chocolate That’s what I’m imbibing (yes, imbibing) this morning with my tea…looseleaf black tea with condensed milk whisked in. The thing about these super-rich extra darks is that they go best with a beverage so they melt in your mouth. As the saying is in Ghana, “No ... More About: Chocolate , Eclipse
Constance Terrell?s ?Textiles At Its Finest? show at Portfolio Gallery thro
2008-03-05 01:27:00 “ALL TIED UP (100% COTTON/ACRYLIC) is how I felt, when I was creating a new face for textile art, coming from the fashion world,” says Constance. “ALL TIED UP keeps me connected to where I have or have not been. It’s currently exhibited at LAMATH BUILDING, OAKLAND, CA. Portfolio Gallery would like to see ... More About: Textiles , Show , Finest
Hal Manogue?s designed to bloom in love?expanding the Regenerative Living D
2008-03-05 00:33:00 A.C.E. Hal Manogue’s TM (Aware Connected Energy) For those Riehlife and Community of the Land (Susan Tweit’s blog) readers who’ve been intrigued by our Blog Duet on the theme of Regenerative Design/Living , hop on over to Hal Manogue’s “Living a Non-Ordinary Life in a Non Ordinary Way” for a thoughtful essay that expands this dialogue. ... More About: Love , Bloom
Aaron Belz? Poetics of Distraction: A technologically hip way to publish ou
2008-03-04 21:28:00 Sketch of Aaron Aaron Belz –website & blog logo–copyrighted Riehlife readers last heard from Aaron on January 23rd of this year when we enjoyed his poem “Swan Song” written just for us! You can read it again under Write Pen! Aaron is a modern man of letters, a university teacher, poet,reviewer, essayist, and organizer of St. Louis’ ... More About: Distraction , Publish
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche on Mary Hynes ?Tapestry? program on CBC Radio tells
2008-03-03 17:39:00 The introduction to the interview reads, rather engagingly: If you were the reincarnation of a Tibetan warrior king, what would your life look like? Would you live alone, contemplating existence in a hidden monastery high on a mountain top? Would you be a figure like the Dalai Lama, with no family but for the millions who ... More About: Radio , Mary , Program , Tells , Tapestry
William Steig?s Question as conversation starter: What Would You Rather Be?
2008-03-03 14:35:00 In today’s New York Times Connections section, Edward Rothstein writes a marvelous article: “Worlds Outfoxed by a Wily Inner Child” about the current exhibiton at the Jewish Museum (later to appear in San Francisco) titled ?From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig.” The catalog tells the story of from the artist?s ... More About: Question , Starter , Conversation
Poets, Politics & Pakistan: ?Staying Safe: Signs of Attitude Change in My T
2008-03-02 20:23:00 I asked my friend Ernest Dempsey (pen name of Karim Khan) to write some personal notes about the recent Pakistan i elections. I was always so impressed that each time we corresponded, he was busily scribbling away on his poetry collection and other literary endeavors. His latest is inclusion in Howard Wu’s anthology “Random Thoughts,” one of ... More About: Politics , Change , Signs , Poets
Sorting upon the return home?Soyinka on my mind
2008-03-02 20:23:00 I have returned from a journey. This journey has moved me further along my journey. Winter Woods. Then creeks and ponds. Rolling Illinois borderlands. More winter wood flash past. Small Illinois towns where one could stop awhile and spend time in geneological research. I could say I got lost. I could say I missed the turn. ... More About: Africa , Home , Mind , Return , The Return
Wole Soyinka Symposia at SIU/Carbondale?Muse & Mimesis: Wole Soyinka, Afric
2008-02-28 20:35:00 Wole Soyinka So here I am at the Wole Soyinka Symposia at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, about as happy as a girl can be and still remain in her skin! The brainpower in this auditorium hooked up to electrical generators could solve the world energy ... More About: Muse
Regenerate! Tweit-Riehl Blog Duet Continues?exploring
2008-02-27 22:05:00 Two weeks ago Susan Tweit and I opened a format I’ve termed a “blog duet” (a coinage for our exchange between blogs and mind-hearts). Susan’s blog Community of the Land focuses on spirit-infused ecology. My blog Riehlife seeks to gather and amplify village wisdom we can apply to our everyday 21st century conundrums. “Off She Goes ... More About: Blog , Exploring
?Getting to Know You? blogging Meme?ta-da-ta-da??Getting to know what to sa
2008-02-27 21:19:00 Sing along, now, everybody, all together: “Getting to know you, Getting to feel free and easy When I am with you, Getting to know what to say” That’s the essence of the “Getting to Know You” blogging meme which Isabella Mori of Change Therapy has just tagged me to participate in. Poinsetta, December-child’s flower DECEMBER 12 characteristics…one for each month of the year. 1. ... More About: Meme , Blogging , Hungry , Yvonne Perry
?The Second Mile,? Erwin A. Thompson?s novel offers an intimate look at the
More articles from this author:2008-02-27 00:31:00 “Going the second mile” was a catch-phrase in our family, and comes from the Bible, Matthew 5:4 41 ?Whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two.” [A Roman official could require any subject of the Roman empire to bear a burden, or carry a load for one mile.] ?Going the second mile? ... More About: Offers , Thompson , Mile , Erwin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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