by Heidi Webb | Oct 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
What we see and what we don’t see informs how we understand the world, and consequently how we act and don’t act in it. Recently I heard three artists talk about how they made visible the concerns they had that are typically hidden from view; Stephen Tourlentes, who...
by Heidi Webb | Sep 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
The older I get, the younger seventy-five years old seems. So it was sobering this past week to note the deaths of two seventy-five years olds, NPR commentator Cokie Roberts and The Cars lead singer, Ric Ocasek, both of whom I consider to be cultural icons, albeit in...
by Heidi Webb | Sep 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
I recently hiked through Iceland’s Þingvellir (Thingvellir) National Park where amidst the tectonic plates of the rift valley, the exquisite waterfalls and massive lava landscape rich in austerity, I discovered the site of the Icelandic people’s “law rock”, dating...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago my brother and I were having a conversation about the meaning of life when I recalled a book I’d read back in college, and recommended it to him. About a week later I asked him if he’d read it and he told me he’d read it the day after I told him...
by Heidi Webb | Jun 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
When our kids were small, we had a Friday night dinner ritual that included saying our weekly “thankfuls” (at about eight years old my son also began to include his “wishfuls”:-). In any event, my thinking was that by creating a habit of self-reflection our kids would...
