Category: Arts

• All Things Arise and Fade Away

  

  We awoke to bright sun, instead of the forecast dense cloud. The birds have been oddly quiet after being rowdy yesterday. As we watched, a starling stuck its head into the sparrows’ bird house, perhaps after chicks or eggs, then flew away. Now the sparrows are chirping loudly. This morning I sat down in the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 28, 2025

  Arts, creativity, Cycles, denial, Landscape, Nature, Shamanism, Social issues, Sound Art, spirituality, spring, Stories

  chance, change, evolution, natural systems, nature, Sound Art, writing

• Deportation Echoes

  

  A soundscape in response to he Supreme Courts ruling on Deportations.

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 20, 2025

  Cycles, denial, First Nations, Grief and Fear, Healing, Racism, Terror, Social issues, Sound Art, spirituality, spring, Stories

  Deportations, healing, History, racism, stories, terror

• The Play of Late Spring Shadow and Light

  

  On the play of light in late May.

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 19, 2025

  Arts, creativity, Disability, Landscape, Nature, spring, Stories, Summer, Travel

  Cape Cod, disability, light, nature, photography, shadows, spring

• Finding the Right Words

  

  Today dawned clear and crisp. We’ve entered that part of spring when the sun seems to rise dramatically earlier each day and the pace of life is rapidly picking up. Yesterday I was down at the marsh and noted that over the past week the first osprey pair has returned and is already on the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  April 18, 2025

  Arts, creativity, denial, First Nations, Grief and Fear, Landscape, Nature, Shamanism, Social issues, spirituality, spring, Stories

  life, photography, politics, state violence, travel, writing