by Rich Brimer | Jul 19, 2008 | memior, Painting |
So, as I have been reading listening and talking to others about the state of the Church and Christianity, I am beginning to understand what “deconstructionism†can mean for it. Pete Rollins (author of “How (Not) to Speak of God“) was at a talk that I attended...
by Rich Brimer | Jun 19, 2008 | beauty, memior, Painting, quotes |
John O’donohue tells us about “thresholds”… “thresholds which comes from “thrashing” – which is to separate the grain from the husk. So, the threshold is a place – you move into a more critical, challenging...
by Rich Brimer | Apr 23, 2008 | beauty, General, memior |
In some ways, my recent trip to Assisi was a passage into a new realm… a new reality for me. A realm that allowed me to be far away from all of the things that collect my attention. Passages are like thresholds in that it is what you pass over or go through to...
by Rich Brimer | Mar 22, 2008 | General, memior |
From the time she was born — and throughout her century long life — Lucy Brimer knew quite a bit about planting seeds. Her parents immigrated from Germany at the very end of the 1800’s to Chicago where their first two children were born. From there they moved to...
by Rich Brimer | May 24, 2007 | General, memior |
When we got our lab-mix Bailey nearly 11 years ago, we were living near the Snohomish river in Monroe Washington. Being that she was part Labrador Retriever, I was looking forward to taking her to the river on occasion to run along the shore splashing like dogs do....
by Rich Brimer | Aug 18, 2006 | General, memior, Painting |
Creativity. I have spent some time teaching small children. It seems to me that the younger someone may be, the more likely one is to raise their hand to the question, Who in this room is an artist? As a child, there is little to lose in being creative. As we...
