I had the opportunity of going to MoMA yesterday evening. I was actually there for a lecture on economics! Hmmm… It was an opportunity to reflect upon “America and the New Global Economy” with the guest speaker Lawrence H. Summers. He navigated through the complex financial challenges we currently face. As former United States Secretary…
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Monthly Archives: April 2008Well it has been a day of playing with color, reading and making mini landscapes And it is all because my knee was in need of a rest. Sometimes when you slow down and focus on the now moment you can get more done and feel like you have all ofthe time in the world…. show 1 comment 
Your drawings and commentaries are so thoughtful and reveal the depth of your thinking.This has always been in you. Love, Mom  late afternoon company It is early on a beautiful rainy day, dark and enveloping, chilly , yet I am fortunate enough to be able to wrap myself in warmth! I face the blank paper and draw out from my mind a memory of yesterday, a reflection on one small moment in time. Its importance lies… show 1 comment 
reflection on a moment,  window shadows I have been painting … reading….meditating, and this is work in progress.Reading has included A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, an interesting summary of new age philosophy. Walking and yoga are helpful to center the mind and balance the body and spirit. I find it a good discipline to articulate in imagery and… show 1 comment 
Hello Beth! I too read A New Earth and found it to be very interesting, thought provoking reading. Reflections are so much clearer to me as just that ,as opposed to me ‘thinking’ …as always you inspire me to stretch beyond because you stretch beyond in art and in life. |
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nancy - YOU ARE AMAZING……..AND I JUST ADORE YOU.
Karen Renna - The final thought to this is that after giving of ourselves first to sustain and protect all of our rights to food shelter etc, then the need to make Art an economically based endeavor would shift to one of having the time and the room to celebrate each other and our love.
Karen Renna - Truly the only way to deal with economic solutions is to recognize that a global economy requires a spiritual view of the purpose for this physical earthly existence. In order to achieve any balance we must be cognizant of the need to eliminate extremes of wealth and poverty. If we accepted the notion that all the peoples of the earth were entitled to basic inalienable rights and that this is not merely an American Ideal, but a God given right to all, then we would never allow the changing tides of any economy to starve a people, leave children uneducated or deny women and children an equal right to live. We would rise together to resolve the impediments to anyone first.