Five years in business. Fifty years old. Ten years married. And suddenly, everything feels up for review. And so you begin to look back. In …
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What Remains When Everything Is Replaced
The Ship of Theseus puzzle gives this question form. A ship is repaired plank by plank until nothing original remains. Is it still the same …
Say It So I Can See You
Clarity, we tend to assume, is a technical virtue—something belonging to instruction manuals, contracts, or perhaps the more dutiful corners of communication. It does not, …
Shared Beauty: A Mother/Daughter Makeup Workshop
What happens when you stop doing your own makeup—and let someone who loves you take the lead? In this intimate Mother’s Day workshop at F.A.C.E. …
The Aesthetics of Asking
“Please” should be enough. It is structurally complete—polite, socially sanctioned, and a signal that we understand the boundaries between wanting and taking. And yet, for …
Intentionally Lose Yourself to Find Yourself
There is a version of you, one that has been shaped by repetition, refinement, and accumulation of decisions about what works and what does not, …
Poison Ivy, Reluctant Muse
I thought tending to my garden would bring clarity. Instead, I met you. Somewhere between pulling weeds and raking leaves, I must have brushed against …
BOOK CLUB: The Artist’s Way
NEXT MEETING: Week 6 Discussion | Sunday, April 26th from 4PM-5PM Many people subtly suspect they are more creative than their lives currently allow. The …
Cul-de-Sac
The Yeiser Art Center Members + Sponsors Exhibition has always felt to me like a room where private meditations are briefly made public. Objects that …
Beauty as Nervous System Regulation
Perhaps this is what beauty does when we carry it long enough. It moves inward and becomes reflex. Cosmetics always felt like this to me …