Imagining the future
What if the $4 billion FoxConn tax break had instead gone towards small business grants?
Photo from community paint day at Trinity Lutheran Church. Photo credit Daniel Stout.
A Letter to My Creative Community
To my fellow creators: In 2016, we experienced one of the most critical elections of our time, an election that regardless of your politics, regardless of whether you woke up the…
Two worlds in tandem: moving from the past to the present
February 8, 2017, would have been my dad's 66th birthday. He has been gone for nearly 8 years. I have been thinking a lot lately about things that come in…
The Gettysburg Address. Still relevant today.
What does it mean to be In Unison?
It is two days after Martin Luther King Day and two days before the 45th Presidential Inauguration. We began the week by honoring the memory of a man who emerged…
The benefits of keeping a journal: paper time machines and thoughts from the soul
I keep a hand-written journal, to log the often boring, redundant, silly, serious, terrible, hopeful, vulnerable thoughts that I have. My current journal is handmade and has a sister that…
What God Looks Like
My mother once told me the story of a cartoon she saw in a newspaper some years ago, which explained God. In the cartoon, God is a faceless, featureless oval on a table. People come…
The love affair of art & politics-and the culture they create
The chase. The game. Love it or hate it, love it and hate it. Choose to play, choose not to play. There's no getting away from it. Our existence depends on…
"The Light Within Us We Do Not Use," 20 x 30 in drawing, by Jenie Gao
The myth of the starving artist–and what it can teach us about job security
"What do you do?" This is the number one small talk question we ask people, on par with discussing the weather. It's a question we either don't care about at…