Noelie's Wedding & Colleen Kelley’s painting at Memorial
Dear Friends,
The 60s feminist expression, “The Personal Is Political,” can be described as underscoring “the connections between personal experience and larger social and political structures,” to which I’d add "between personal experience and larger spiritual structures." (Among all the waves of feminism, it was Helen LaKelly Hunt of the Sister Fund who used to write about a Fifth Feminism of a spiritual kind!)
This comes to mind, since this July musing is deeply personal. This month I attended both the wedding of my great-niece Noelie Demaegdt in Aix-en-Provence, and in Santa Fe the memorial celebration of my friend Colleen Kelley, who passed on a year ago. Why mention such events in a column about art? Well, that is a column meaning to address the spiritual in art. As I have tried to express through my book: Art can be Life. But Life also is Art. And these two happenings mean not only the love demonstrated, but even more, the love of family, the love of community, including the love of creativity. Both events were extraordinary pieces of theater filled with the love beyond the one kind of love we know as love, including the love of creativity, of beauty.
Another piece of news: I will especially live “The Personal Is Political” on July 28th, 10:30 a.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation service where I will speak of renewal, a topic that will allow me to share a bit about my quest for What is the Spiritual in Art in our Time. Come if you live in Santa Fe (107 W. Barcelona Road). For streaming, go to http://uusantafe.org.
With the Earth in my heart,
dominique
P.S. My book, The heartist's Secret/A Memoir, is still available through my website, www.earthheartist.net.
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