Posts Tagged ‘Care of Soul’
George Washington Carver: The Patron Saint of Painting
On a recent journey to the southern United States with my grandchildren, I rediscovered a great American, George Washington Carver. He is best known as the scientist-botanist who discovered many practical uses for the peanut crop. George Washington Carver invented over three hundred uses for the peanut including flour, paste, paper, wood stains and antiseptics.…
Read MoreGetting to Woke
Dear friends, I have been reflecting on “care of soul” for a number of years now. I have come to the conclusion that I cannot keep talking about this topic without talking directly about the soul of our country. We are not just individuals, but part of a larger fabric we call the United States…
Read MoreQuantum Entanglement of Soul
In quantum physics there is a theory known as quantum entanglement. Mel Schwartz writes in Psychology Today: “In the microscopic realm once two particles experience a shared state they are no longer separate entities but exist as one. This remains true even when they are separated by a great distance.” This means that the state…
Read MoreGiving Up Hope for a Deeper Hope
One of the joys of my profession is the opportunity to meet and connect authentically with amazing people. Our Larkin Painting team is composed of incredible individuals. Every day I get to work and create with clients and all sorts of people who have their own unique stories and perspectives. My life is richer and…
Read MoreBreaking Through the Noise
I talk a lot about how silence and stillness nourish me. Every year, I retreat with my wife to Maine to breathe in silence and stillness. As I sit on my favorite coast listening to the choppy waves signal a coming storm, I become more deeply aware of the music of silence and stillness in my…
Read MoreReclaiming Our “We”
“We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union . . . .” – we are all familiar with the words in the first line of the Preamble to the Constitution. Have you ever wondered how our nation might be different if we took these words to heart? What…
Read MoreProclaiming the Legacy of Hope
I was 16 years old when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968. Fifty years later, my soul still weeps. What today would be a four-letter word in politics, marks his legacy and meaning for me: HOPE. He did not live a sainted life. He was an aide to the red-baiting Sen. Joseph…
Read MoreA Bad Decision
“That was a bad decision,” I pronounced to my wife. I was telling her that a finch that had built a nest on an artificial wreath. This wreath, this questionable location for a home, decorates the door of my storage shed. We open that door at least once a day, usually several times a day,…
Read MoreDo Painters Pray?
I remember being at a church service some time ago when a member of the community asked me what I did for a living. I replied I was a house painter. He chuckled and said sarcastically: “Do painters pray?” Ha, ha – I was appropriately insulted. I knew there were stereotypes about painters—the guy that…
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