Category: Arts

• Making Space for Conversation: A Project

  

  A lovely late winter morning, the light clear and vibrant on the snow and trees. The day is warm for late February; this entire week will likely be far above normal in temperature, a condition that increasingly seems normative in itself. Early Saturday morning a crew arrived to install solar panels on our roof. In…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 20, 2017

  Arts, Healing

  Arts, healing, letters, Social Change

• The Danger of Sport As Metaphor

  The dawn revealed a world held in deep fog, the snow cover having melted away in this week’s warmth. Bare ground and limbs remain. I’ve succumbed to the mid-January doldrums, and have taken to sitting before the fire with a good book. Occasionally I journey up to the studio and muck about. I’m not much…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 22, 2017

  Arts, Social issues, spirituality

  healing, metaphors, Narrative Therapy, rural communities, sport

• Cycles of Change

  The year has turned. We spent New Years with family near the ocean, accompanied by warmth, both emotional and physical, and much good cheer. Yesterday was New Years Day, and we celebrated by following our Sunday routine when with family: breakfast, conversation, and newspapers. We then drove the five hours home. 

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 2, 2017

  Arts, Social issues

  Arts, In Montmartre, Social Change

• Sunday Morning

  After months of unseasonably warm temperatures and drought, Thursday the chill and rain came, causing one local meteorologist to write, “Finally, Fall!”. Yesterday we drove down to Dartmouth College for a conference. Although the drive was wet, and took longer than we had planned, we enjoyed the foliage, which at the lower elevations was brilliant,…

  Michael Watson PhD

  October 23, 2016

  Arts, Climate Change, performance, spirituality, Stories

  Arts, autumn, nature, puppetry, stories