by swilliamson | Aug 29, 2025 | Embodied Thoughts
There exists a general confusion among viewers of paintings. When a clear, objective ‘subject’ or recognizable object is not apparent, the term ‘abstract’ is liberally applied. In many of those cases, the ‘subject’ may be the form itself. Metaphorically, that form may...
by Gaylund Stone | Apr 30, 2025 | Embodied Thoughts
As, in Ruskin’s words, “I am, to my much sorrow, now an older person,” I’ve come to realize that the aches and pains of aging are not entirely physical. Perhaps they’re only a symptom of accumulated experience, knowledge, regret, and the sadness for our fallen state....
by Gaylund Stone | Apr 28, 2025 | Embodied Thoughts
Most of the time, the most important things can be found in the gaps, the empty spaces – synapses between nerve cells; the gap between thoughts and words (read between the lines); meditation in solitude. The best thing fishing taught me, I think, was how to be alone....
by Gaylund Stone | Apr 24, 2025 | Embodied Thoughts
Referring to the observation of nature, John Ruskin wrote in Modern Painters (Vol. 2, 3:3:20): “Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced.” We hurry through life as though our only goal is to arrive at its end. Hurrying through life...
by Gaylund Stone | Apr 22, 2025 | Embodied Thoughts
Of course, there is THE Incarnation, God becoming flesh and dwelling among us at a specific moment in history. That’s the necessity of our human condition – since we lack a faith sufficient to make evidence unnecessary. Everything that is intangible must become...
by Gaylund Stone | Apr 17, 2025 | Embodied Thoughts
With our limited capabilities we usually experience meaningfulness through comparison – seeing one thing, in some inexplicable way, as similar to another. To borrow a phrase from Walker Percy, the best we can hope to do is to somehow fix the evolving meanings in time...
