Category Archives: Refounding Golgonooza

I will be teaching a class at the Stone Church Arts Center in Bellows Falls, VT on Sunday March 25 9:30 a.m.-12:30 in Currier Hall Journaling through the Seasons Mar 11, 2018 – Mar 25, 2018 INFOTICKETS This class will explore journaling using nature and weather to prompt us into writing and image making. The [...]

REFLECTION This week I had a dream in which I encountered several mirrors. This led me to contemplate the meaning of Reflection…and what that word may encompass? When we reflect, we pause to understand the reasons, cause, effect or results of something…we examine or “turn things over” in our mind at length, until we understand [...]

OUR EXPECTATIONS   The towers of San Gimignano, visible across a half dozen miles of Tuscan landscape were an intriguing sight. We were in Certaldo for an unhurried daytrip from Florence. I remember experiencing a moment when a voice in my head said “why can’t we go there and have that experience,” and I had [...]

The film “A Quiet Passion” directed by Terence Davies and starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson, showed in Amherst, MA and since we were going, I thought why not go see the homestead too, since it was just down the road. The movie was full of her poetry, her struggles, and showed so accurately the [...]

Photographic collage by intern, Meghan Graham, of interior or Golgonooza.    

FEAR                                       (*Article previously published in Vermont Views) Recently I’ve been reminded of the power of fear—our collective and our individual fears: of moving forward, of the unknown, of change. Trauma in life hits us with such unexpected force, catching us unaware or unprepared and sometimes leaving us seemingly incapable of dealing with the after effects: [...]