Category Archives: Art-Music-Lit

PPP: Painters, Prophets, Poets

Posted on August 28, 2024 by admin

This October 4-6, Oklahoma City will welcome a firmament of stellar speakers and a Milky Way of radiant participants to the Painters, Prophets, Poets conference, subtitled “Imagining New Creation Together.” Hosted by Travis Lowe and Hannah Anderson, speakers are Malcolm … Continue reading →

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George MacDonald Bicentenary Conference

Posted on May 20, 2024 by admin

2024 is the 200th anniversary of George MacDonald’s birth (1824-1905). The George MacDonald Society and the Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College sponsored a conference, “George MacDonald and the Prophetic Imagination,” May 29-31, 2024. Conference page, GMD Society Joining … Continue reading →

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Elaine Hagenberg’s choral anthems

Posted on March 17, 2024 by admin

Elaine Hagenberg Candace and I listened with rapt attention to “You Do Not Walk Alone,” a moving choral piece by Elaine Hagenberg, at the OKC Civic Center “For All the Saints” Irish concert last week. It prompted us to browse … Continue reading →

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Alan Gogoll

Posted on August 29, 2023 by admin

This is not. humanly. possible. Alan Gogoli (website) “is an Australian acoustic guitarist and composer most known for the invention of his two-handed simultaneous artificial harmonics technique he has called ‘Bell Harmonics’, which is featured in many of his original … Continue reading →

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New beginning

Posted on August 20, 2023 by admin

“New Beginning” Mark & Steffimarkwhitelive.com The Chapman stick So beautiful

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Deep peace of the shining stars

Posted on March 2, 2023 by admin

On a wall of 20 Hills Cottage, that most hospitable of places, Hannah displays a prayer from Iona: The deep peace of the water, air, earth, and heavens are gathered up in the Son of Peace, the source from whom … Continue reading →

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Ring out, wild bells

Posted on January 1, 2023 by admin

For Advent and Christmas this year, Candace and I again are reading aloud together through Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word, a collection of poems and essay reflections. On New Years Day, Malcolm Guite calls our attention to the “ring … Continue reading →

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Kindness and Hope

Posted on December 9, 2022 by admin

One of the pleasant surprises and joyous discoveries last month for us was the discovery, in a used-bookstore in Scotland, of the kind and hopeful book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy (Amazon). We … Continue reading →

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IEEE VIS 2022

Posted on October 15, 2022 by admin

Thinking Visually IEEE VIS, the premier international conference on visualization and visual analytics, is bringing 1100 people to Oklahoma City this week either in-person or virtually. OU Professor David Ebert is one of the organizers of the conference. David is … Continue reading →

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Information vs. wonder

Posted on July 9, 2022 by admin

“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.” (video) — MisterRogersQuotes (@MisterRogersSay) July 8, 2022 “I’m … Continue reading →

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