Why doodle?

When my son was in second grade, his teachers had him keep a doodle notebook. The kids were allowed/encouraged to use their doodle notebooks whenever the teachers were reading aloud. My son’s doodle notebook is exquisite and one of my favorite possessions, but more than that it helped him focus on [...]

Healing Our Grief

Grief is a mysterious and complicated emotion with a mind of its own. Just when we think that we’ve got it licked, something happens to remind us of our loss. As Elisabeth Kubler-Ross said in her book, On Grief and Grieving, “You will heal, and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you [...]

Labyrinths

Recently a friend and I attended a weekend conference on labyrinths in Denver. When we arrived at the Arvada Center for the Arts, we were completely shocked to find that we were going to be joining over 200 other participants.; we had both imagined that the topic would attract a much smaller crowd [...]

Healing Landscapes

Here’s a good resource for anyone interested in healthcare garden design: Healing Landscapes.org.

The website is setup as a database to provide information on landscapes that promote health and well-being. Naomi Sachs, a landscape architect with an MLA from the University of California, Berkeley, is the Founder and Director of the Therapeutic [...]

Sand Art

Another real-time animation technique:  Watch sand artist  Ilana Yahav create beautiful animations as her fingers draw with sand on a glass table. She takes finger painting to a whole new level.

 
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