I haven’t spent a part of these last two Sundays of the advent season within a church. Rather, I have begun them, as I begin most days, with a run with Buddy. The snows of December, however, have made me amend our routes, so on both Sundays, Buddy and I were jogging past snow-covered hills [...]
Category Archives: Holidays
Aaron Sinift + Holiday hours
November 19, 2009, 12:05 pm
With my own nose pressed firmly to the glass of a miniscule window on “the holiday retail season”, an old friend reminded me of a larger world spinning beyond the spheres of American consumerism.
At the turn of the millennium, Iowa City artist, Aaron Sinift, traveled to India. His work was forever changed by [...]
Bittersweet
November 10, 2009, 10:18 am
Aunt Iva
Craig’s Aunt Iva went to her grave without divulging where she found the bittersweet that she decorated her home with every fall. I love bittersweet as well. An invasive, parasitic, and noxious vine which is strangling trees in the Northeast, bittersweet is somewhat rare around here. And, in large measure, its odious qualities are [...]