As 2025 closed out, I sorted through a few images from my retired blog. The handiwork of Darryl Moland, a revered art director at Southern Living, Cooking Light, and other publications popped up. He had the rare gift to create something lovely that reminded us to treasure the time we have.
Category: Art
Creative Flow Takes You off the Clock—into the Infinite
I wrote this letter to a colleague who dedicated years to writing a novel. It was not easy. When you chase something meaningful while navigating daily existence, you feel time’s tick. Yet there are moments when we slip wholly into creative flow that frees us to step out of time and connect with something greater.
Fortunate Fall: An Angel Plunges into Finitude Just for Love
In the film Wings of Desire, an angel perches on buildings that tower over Berlin. Seeing the world only in black and white, he listens to the stream of human thought driven by the spectrum of emotions. Without interfering, except for leaning in to express empathy, he documents earthly existence until taking the plunge to become human.
Looking back to move forward: how this artist’s life mattered every minute
Reading Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town in high school was a rite of passage: two families’ travels of a lifetime—the spectrum of human existence—in one day. It’s a rich read when I reflect on artist Edwina Goodman and this question posed by one of Wilder’s characters: “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?” Yes, some do, and we are better for it.