LETTERS invites you to share a personal difficulty with a kind and wise someone who listens as if standing in your shoes. Then that someone writes back anonymously. Yep, that's right. Want a letter back? Project Letters is inspired by students who after anonymously admitting and wrestling with their difficulty on paper often add a postscript that says, "If you can, will you write back?" This project is a yes to that question. ABOUT... READ THE LETTERS...WHERE TO SEND YOUR WRITING
ANGELS IN CORTONA was a project created by Terry and Susan Barrett and University of Georgia students Jessi, Sienna, Holly, and Mary. The project was for children at an elementary school in Cortona using Fra Angelico’s L’ Annunciazione, a famous painting in The Diocesan Museum in Cortona, Italy. The children, their parents, and others responded to this question, “Imagine that you are Angel Gabriel telling something for today. What is the message?” Their work was exhibited in the City of Cortona. SELECTION OF DRAWINGS
LISTENING TO STUDENTS is a collection of 30 anonymous writings by mostly teenagers who use meditation and the Wonder Anew questions to face and explore a personal difficulty. It is also a collection of 30 feeling portraits. ABOUT... WRITINGS... GALLERY... THE LESSON...
WE LOVE MARA is a website and fundraiser for Miss Mara Fulk, a beloved teacher at Center Montessori School. Mara was hospitalized a week after school began with severe stomach pains and diagnosed on September 11, 2018, with a large Leiomyosarcoma tumor. We raised $150,555 to support her treatment and travel expenses. Mara passed away 10/31/23. ABOUT... MARA'S STORY... GO FUND ME.
MEDITATING TOGETHER In 2018, I asked @30 friends from 7 states, "Would you like to wake early and meditate together in real-time?" Meditation Mondays continued for 5 years. This is what we did.
CARING FOR CREATURES Responses to Joel Sartore's photograph, An Endangered Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas) at the Dallas World Aquarium, 2021, and this prompt - Imagine you speak the Tamarin's language. What might it say to you? What might you say to it? In @ 100 words or less. Here are some selected responses. MORE...
TALK + LISTEN is an ongoing personal practice to work with two experiences: talking with transparency and listening from the teller's point of view. Sound easy? It's not. It's very hard to do—and I've played classical piano, tatted, woven on large floor looms, and twirled baton! So I'm practicing. MORE...
SMILE was inspired by Michelle B. who used the Wonder Anew questions when she felt like a monster with broken teeth. She chose to get her teeth fixed and in the process learned how hard it is for people living in poverty to get dental care. When she answered this question, "How might your difficulty help you or others in the future?" she hoped her story might help others. Project Smile, is Michelle's hope in action. A fundraiser to help Megan (pictured) and others get dental care, was born. MORE ...
WONDER WORDS honors and celebrates the people who unravel and explore their experiences. My beautiful friend, children's book author, and Magnet House Jewelry owner Marianne Richmond, took inspiring Wonder Anew words and created a beautiful interchangeable jewelry line where you can wear and share your heart. READ ABOUT THE PROJECT here... Though WONDER WORDS JEWELRY is no longer available, we can still carry these words in our hearts.
CRANES FOR CLARE was a personal response to despair when my sister-in love (law) was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. I worked with my feelings of sadness and loss by folding and giving away 1000 origami paper cranes to friends I knew and strangers I passed. As the story goes, after folding 1000 cranes, a wish is granted. MORE ...
