reading, books, knowledge – Holly B.F. Warren Atelierista Artist Mind Wanderer Writer Optimist

The Spindle and the Thistle: Why We Must Educate the Adult Imagination

After 35 years in the atelier, I am haunted by a recurring image: the bush of thistles. I see it in the eyes of seasoned educators and weary adults—a dense, prickly thicket of no, should, and impossible. We speak of educare, of drawing out the light, yet we have become master architects of our own…
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Why Are We Starving the Visionaries of Tomorrow?

There is a window at the start of a child’s life that looks out onto a world of infinite color and truth. In those early years, we hand them brushes not to “paint pictures” but to give them a language for the soul. But then, something clinical happens. As the years progress, we stop opening…
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Words, shape, design, and influence

Influences in life shape what we let in. The Architecture of InflowWe often think of design as something we. But the most profound design project is the one we inhabit: the internal landscape shaped by the words we let in.Words as BlueprintsWords are more than communication; they are the geometry of our perspective. When we…
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Destined to choose and decide

Do you believe in fate/destiny? We are active participants in the choices we make, we take responsibility and acknowledge success and failures…or not? Wexare the artisans of our life and work collaboratively. Fate is pre-designed. Should we accept it? At what cost? Maybe but just Maybe wexwrite our own contribution to our flow/stall in life.
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Category: reading, books, knowledge

The Spindle and the Thistle: Why We Must Educate the Adult Imagination

Why Are We Starving the Visionaries of Tomorrow?

Words, shape, design, and influence

Destined to choose and decide