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Beauty, Art & Ecology
Our Spring 2024 forum will explore the values of Generosity, Wonder, and Craft as they relate to a grateful engagement with nature and agriculture.…
Food & Art 2022
FOOD & ART From Our Table to Yours Friday Arts Project’s fundraiser.Saturday, May 21, 2022 @ 7—10PM at the Hickory Post! Pies have a reputation.And it’s immediate —no talk of potential Regarding a pie. It’s good Or it isn’t, but mostly it is—sweet, very...
May 14, 2021 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Button
Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES May 14, 2021 Review: Given the memorial capacities of architecture, it cannot be coincidental that in many of the world’s cultures, the earliest and most significant words have been...
May 7, 2021 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Button
Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES May 7, 2021 Review: The moral equation between beauty and goodness lent to all architecture a new seriousness and importance. In admiring the noble patina of a mature wooden floor, we would...
April 30, 2021 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Button
Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES April 30, 2021 Review: We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for avulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind,...
April 23, 2021 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Button
Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES April 23, 2021 Review: To call a work of architecture or design beautiful is to recognize it as a rendition of values critical to ourflourishing, a transubstantiation of our individual...