by Danny | Jul 22, 2008 | Inspiration, Mapping the Body, quotes
Poet and painter Kirsten Rian has a wonderful practice of emailing a poem to her friends every Monday. This is one she recently sent me – it took my breath away. Blink by Morton Marcus You’ve got to love life so much that you don’t want tomiss a moment of it,...
by Danny | Jul 2, 2008 | Charles Hobson, history of photography, Inspiration, Mapping the Body, Surrealism
I took a family excursion to SFMOMA on Friday evening with my father, daughter, and husband to attend a Foto Forum walk-through of the new Lee Miller show. It was such a treat to see so many vintage prints by her. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Lee Miller and...
by Danny | Feb 21, 2008 | business of art, Inspiration
I almost missed this. Fortunately my mom mentioned it to me, and how it had inspired her and my father. And so I rifled through the large stack of last Sunday’s NY Times to find an article on Sandra Boynton called “The Power of Whimsy” gracing the...
by Danny | Jan 13, 2008 | Charles Hobson, Inspiration, quotes
“The notion of a curious, wistful man walking the city and turning up treasure in debris, seeing the transcendent in the forgotten, the discarded, the mundane – such a notion is intrinsically hopeful.” – Leah Hager Cohen This morning while flipping throught the Sunday...
by Danny | Dec 24, 2007 | Inspiration, quote
Every Christmas eve, after dinner, my family gathers around the fire and each person reads aloud something that has inspired them this year. I share here one of my candidates for tonight’s reading – a poem by Mary Oliver from one of my favorite volumes – a 2007...
by Danny | Dec 13, 2007 | art and healing, books, Creative Process, Inspiration, quotes
One of my favorite parts of the holidays is gift giving – thinking about each person, brainstorming gift ideas for them, making or acquiring the gift, and then wrapping it in colorful paper and ribbons. There is creative thinking and some handiwork involved that is...
