Center for Creative Arts is a magnet school, one of five in Chattanooga in different disciplines. I became one of 50 arts faculty in a school with 500 arts students, grades 6-12. In the five years that I was adjunct faculty at CCA, my wife Katherine and I were tapped to create curriculum for the…
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Presence
I have spent most of my life contemplating the experience of reality. I have been confounded by the phenomenon of two people witnessing the same event simultaneously and having different experiences. How is it that we can be presented with the same information, and then translate it with such wide variance? I have had a…
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Awakening the Dragon
At dawn, on the edge of the lake, I am greeted by the eagle. He flies straight to me, and then banking a full turn, hails me with great wings and twisting tail. His presence is always a surprise, and a great blessing. Although very brief, it is deeply felt. Over the past six days, in sacred…
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Wonder Itself
On Mustang Island, the gulf sand is warm all night, teasing us away from sleep. It was the Fourth of July and a gentle rain was falling. The last bonfires dowsed, carfuls of revelers headed out and abandoned the strand, and at last I was alone. The waves were quiet now but for the rain’s gentle kiss. Even the shore birds, as white as…
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