Tag: stories

• Paris In Winter

  

  Yesterday, while at the university library, I chanced upon a lovely book of prose and watercolors with the beguiling title, Paris In Winter. In its pages, the author, David Coggins, takes the reader through several winter vacations in the great city. Along the way we discover that David and his wife, Wendy, have been traveling…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 25, 2016

  Arts, Stories, Travel

  Arts, David Coggins, Paris in Winter, stories, Winter Solstice

• Dancing Between Cultures: The Art of George Morrison

  

  Last night we watched a profound video about the Native American (Chippewa) artist, George Morrison. Jennie had given me the most recent book about his work at Christmas. We had also seen some of his work at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. Morrison’s art is thoroughly modernist, his paintings weaving together color-field, Surrealism, and, at…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 20, 2016

  Arts, Disability, native american, Shamanism, Stories

  Arts, George Morrison, Native American, Shamanism, stories

• Remembering the Healing Stories

  Lauret Savoy ends Traces with this: “Remembering is an alternative to extinction.” Remembering is a well-formed story. One of my early clinical teachers used to insist that neurosis was that which prevented the development of healing story, and that psychotherapy was the search for stories that worked. I’ve come to the conclusion that this is…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 17, 2016

  Healing, native american, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Stories

  healing, Jr., Martin Luther kIng, Native American, psychotherapy, Shamanism, stories

• Waiting

  

  ‘Tis the holidays, and the end of the academic term. One must get past the end of the semester before settling into, abet briefly, the season of darkness and lights. This afternoon darkness fell by 4:30.

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 7, 2015

  Other Subjects, Sacred Lands

  Advent, Native American, stories