Category: Arts

• Join the Conversation

  

  Have letters, brief videos, or artwork to share in these troubled times? Join the conversation at Journeys! We’ve fallen on hard times and people in the U.S., and the world, are deeply divided from one another. This blog is a place for conversation between artists, persons with disability, and others who want to further dialog…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 24, 2017

  Arts, Disability, First Nations, Healing, Social issues, spirituality, Stories, Teaching

  Arts, conversation, Hard Times, healing, Social Change, stories

• 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