Mentors Make Us

My college education began at a conservative Lutheran pre-seminary program at Concordia College in River Forest, Illinois.  After a disappointing experience in high school geometry, I abandoned my dream to be an architect, and my singular focus became what we called “the ministry.”  From 2nd to 8th grade, I attended a day school of the […]

Gifting Smokehaus Rose

After returning from my exhibit in France, I decided it was time to retire a few quilts out of my collection and from public exhibition.  It is such a thrill to be able to gift these quilts to people who’ve played a formative role in my life, creatively or otherwise.  One of these people is […]

Poor Man’s Damask: A Hymn in Four Part Harmony

Re-imagined weaving patterns provide endless inspiration.   Can hardly wait to start this series! Soprano Bass Tenor Alto

Water and Trees

  North Star or satelite? The earth roars as it moves. Screens scream out their monetized mythologies, Everywhere.   Water and trees Sing nature’s fecund harmonies. I dive in deep And swim in the dew of my lover’s eyes.

Poppy Field (aka Cross-Quarter Embrace)

March 2014 I was recently thumbing through a book about weaving when I came across a design that really excited me as a potential quilt idea.  I wouldn’t make the quilt in black and red, but this is just a simple way of remembering that basic concept so that I can later have the fun […]

Black Hills, South Dakota – October 2014

 Lakota prayer flags at the top of Bear Butte  Sunset at the base of Bear Butte  Looking south from halfway up Bear Butte  Sawmill, Hill City  Child’s profile, Bear Butte  Roughlock Falls, Spearfish Canyon  Hike to Roughlock Falls, Spearfish Canyon Stroppel Inn, Midland, South Dakota 

Abiquiu, New Mexico (December 29, 2013-January 4, 2014)

 On-board the Southwest Chief (Amtrak)  El Santuario de Chimayo, Chimayo, New Mexico  Chimayo with faralitos  Hwy 84 north of Abiquiu, New Mexico  13-mile Forest Service road to monastery  Rio Chama  Christ in the Desert monastery  bush at monastery  stations of the cross at monastery  Los Ojos, New Mexico  Hwy 84 north of Abiquiu, New Mexico […]

A beautiful collection cabin photos from around the world.

My brother Scott (CA) sent me this video.  He and I discovered we both have had a lifelong fascination with Rio de Janeiro.  I love how the way it’s filmed makes everything appear to be in miniature.

Antony and the Johnsons “Swanlights” at Radio City Music Hall

“Why, how did we become so hypnotized by structures that we put in place, that they seem more permanent than nature itself…?”