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FRIDAY ARTS PROJECTis on PAUSE in JULYA TIME TO PAUSE, A TIME TO REST We want to cultivate a community sensitive to the minds and needs of its volunteers. We can know in moments what is happening on the other side of the world—not just one thing, but dozens even...
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...
