tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post1738146362462294716..comments2024-03-22T10:51:23.567-05:00Comments on Faith, Fiction, Friends: Do You Surround Your Writing? And with What?Glynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802111972232088511noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-86104757883399529742014-12-23T06:35:12.083-06:002014-12-23T06:35:12.083-06:00Glynn - You are singing my heart's song here, ...Glynn - You are singing my heart's song here, too. Of course I wrote about our museum membership in the book, but just this week I was thinking anew how to bring more of me to art and more of art to my writing. I love the way you value and prioritize the viewing and experiencing of art. I love the way it feeds your soul and informs your writing. Keep at it, friend. It's revealing all kinds of beautiful in what you are creating.Planes, Trains, Roads | Charity Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834561736691965109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-89524684662974547712014-12-22T16:17:01.224-06:002014-12-22T16:17:01.224-06:00This is a lovely post, Glynn, and I appreciate tha...This is a lovely post, Glynn, and I appreciate that you have illustrated it with the beauty of the masters. I recognized the Monet painting, which was at our museum in St. Louis recently. My husband, Michael, daughter, Sheridan, and I have had the privilege of visiting some of the museums that you and your wife did, abroad. There is simply not enough time to linger over paintings on a trip as long as I would like to study and absorb them, but it is an unimaginable thrill to view the work of the masters and see personally the paintings you've only admired one-dimentionally in books. I especially loved the Tate Museum, Monet museum, the Louvre, and the Rijksmseum. If you are ever in England again, I'd also highly recommend the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. I also surround myself with the art works of our daughter, at art major, who will graduate this coming May! :-) I tell her she will beome a favorite painter someday and support her aging parents in style! And quite literally, I surround myself when music when I write, particularly the Baroque masters. My favorite is Bach. I write better with music lilting in the background! And now, the carols of Christ inform my writing and my life. We must graviate to the beauty of all arts in this lost and broken world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-66583302579190665332014-12-22T11:29:18.234-06:002014-12-22T11:29:18.234-06:00YES. This. "She reads at least one poem eve...YES. This. "She reads at least one poem every day. Music is what feelings sound like in her heart and home. Observing and making art is as essential as food and water to keeping her alive. Light is her muse and darkness is her hell." (This is taken from my bio.) I have a friend who has invested in amazing art, and she loans pieces to me. The first was a stunning Mouly that hung by my bed and gave me hope during a dark period. After that was a Dali from his Biblia Sacra watercolors, and I currently have a Chagall of the prophetess Deborah. (Do you know about Dali's Biblia Sacra paintings? They were watercolors produced as illustrations for a new edition of the Bible. Dr. Giuseppe Albaretto, a devout man and Dali’s friend and patron, had great faith and dedication to the Catholic Church. It was this faith and dedication that lead him, in 1963, to commission Salvador Dali to create the illustrations. Dr. Albaretto knew that the project would require Dali to study the Bible, and he hoped this would bring his artist friend back to God. From this commission came the Biblia Sacra, as series of surreal depictions of key themes from the Bible. The Biblia Sacra suite consists of 105 color mixed-technique lithographs after 105 watercolor paintings created by Dali between 1963 and 1964.) This made me think of the St. Johns Bible. It was at our local art museum this year and inspired me for months after pouring over it. If you haven't seen it, you must. http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/ Thank you for sharing this part of your life. Monica Kayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10475401115435967852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5791261486111154318.post-10111129552815419462014-12-22T09:40:36.917-06:002014-12-22T09:40:36.917-06:00Art surrounds your writing and enters it, too, of ...Art surrounds your writing and enters it, too, of course. You have chosen well not only to give depth to your characters and interest to your blog posts, but also to fill the library of your mind with rich images from some of the world's most celebrated creatives. So much inspiration! Thanks for sharing what you surround yourself with--it allows us a glimpse into your writing life we might not otherwise see.Ann Kroekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09031147191936773330noreply@blogger.com