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Transcending Cultures through the Arts, Part One
Creative Commons Licensed Image via much ado about nothing on Fotopedia Why is art a great way to break down barriers? It engages our humanity and reveals common ground between cultures. The didjeridoo...
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Dreaming to Be Clean: Aterciopelados Prayer for the River
AterciopeladosCCLI by Joe Mabel on wikimedia commons Aterciopelados is a Colombian rock band founded and led by Andrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago. They are famous for their musical style, a fusion...
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Reverent Strength: The Soulful Mbira of Hope Masike
Competition is distilled from survival instincts. Ironically, it may destroy our chance for survival. Can the arts help change this? The mbira, or thumb piano is a traditional musical instrument found...
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Quote for Today: Ansul Noor
Zonnestralen© Onderwijsgek with CCLicense By some tear in the wish fabric, or the casting of a prayer, or the falling of some lonely star, the enchanted garden was not lost to me, but lost in me....
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Quote for Today: Zeena Schreck
© Аркадий Зарубин with CCLicense Many secular observers and spiritual practitioners alike mistake mystical chanting as a kind of anthropological curiosity or interesting musical diversion from secular...
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Quote for Today: Abraham Joshua Heschel
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. ―Abraham Joshua...
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Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
“This here ol’ man jus’ lived a life an’ just died out of it. I don’ know whether he was good or bad, but that don’t matter much. He was alive, an’ that’s what matters. An’ now he’s dead, an’ that...
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Quote for Today: Margaret Atwood
There were places you didn’t want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. These things you did were like prayers; you did...
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Quote for Today: Elie Wiesel
Why do you pray?” he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? “I don’t know why,” I said, even more disturbed and ill at ease. “I don’t know...
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Quote for Today: Bella Vespira
What is it about the Heavens that draws us to look up? For generations, centuries, (millennia?) it seems we are drawn to look up for answers, comfort in times of despair, with pleas for help, when we...
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Quote for Today: Frank Bidart
The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt to make someone or something live again. Both poet and...
View ArticleGlobe-trotting Travel Series #12: Hoop Dance Ceremony across the US and Canada
Today’s Globe-trotting Travel Series (Day 12) is a thrilling digital collaboration and conglomeration of Native American hoop dancers from across the US and Canada. They dance against the virus, they...
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Quote for Today: Rosalind Fordham
Some tribal cultures believe that the act of creation takes place through music. They literally sing their homes, their villages and their valleys into existence. They keep them strong and real...
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Quote for Today: Richard Adams
As Hazel still went up, the south wind began to blow and the June sunset reddened up the sky to the zenith. Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he...
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Quote for Today: Saul Bellow
I wonder whether there will ever be enough tranquility under modern circumstances to allow our contemporary Wordsworth to recollect anything. I feel that art has something to do with the achievement...
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