By Henry J. Pratt    Decades ago from a fountain of black ink, famed British author Rudyard Kipling penned his popular Barrack Room Ballads and The Jungle Book. When he was a newspaper reporter, Kipling took notes in pencil, but later he wrote his exciting fiction with nothing but an old ink pen.    Today, both old and new quality quills are […]

By Peggy DeStefano    Western painting is treasured for the scenes of early cowboys and Indians and of the ranges, mountains and prairies where they roamed. The excitement and unsettledness of the old West has been captured on canvas.     But most Western painting has been depicted through the eyes of the newcomer not the native. Noah Adams’ work is […]

  History repeats itself. This poem, written in 1869, was reprinted during the 1919 Pandemic. This is Timeless… And people stayed at home And read books And listened And they rested And did exercises And made art and played And learned new ways of being And stopped and listened More deeply Someone meditated, someone prayed Someone met their shadow And […]

   No surprise that we are returning to a more gentle way to occupy ourselves during the pandemic. Sewing, playing board games, working on puzzles, going through photos—all help us pass the time. Getting to know our spouses and children in a new way with time to talk and memories to recall make the time spent in our homes an almost […]