Day: February 15, 2016

“Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it “the first law of personal growth.”

Peter McWilliams (1949 -2000)

He went on to say: “Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can’t change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don’t fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don’t fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.”

Williams was a native of Detroit who attended Eastern Michigan University and Maharishi International University. His 1975 book on transcendental meditation, The TM Book, was a best seller. He went on to write nearly 40 more books in the self-help genre and worked extensively with Werner Erhard in the awareness training movement. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996 and was a proponent of the legalization of marijuana. His last books on the “absurdity of consensual crimes” became popular with the Libertarian community.

Greg Bover

Photos by Deborah Schradieck 

Photos by Sid Falthzik

Submitted by Dave Moore, from Buddhist calendar

Photos by Nicole Lariviere

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Thanks to everyone who submitted photos . Keep on shootin’.

Marty

Through the ice crystals on my window this morning.  Unfortunately, the camera just couldn’t capture the brilliant beauty of it, but it gives an idea.

E.J. Lefavour

www.hobbithousestudio.com

Folly Cove Designers and Feminist Social Change
An illustrated lecture by Jennifer Scanlon

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities in Gender and Women’s Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty at Bowdoin College, Jennifer Scanlon to give an illustrated lecture on Saturday, March 12 at 2:00 p.m. on everyone’s favorite topic: the Folly Cove Designers. However, Scanlon will be looking at this group of artists from a different angle. Scanlon’s article, “’The Space Between,’: Rediscovering the Folly Cove Designers,” published in the Massachusetts Review in June of 2015 will be the catalyst for this lecture on the role of the Folly Cove Designers (active 1938-1969) as a forerunner of the women’s groups and professional organizations that fueled feminist social change in the following decades.

Led and trained by illustrator Virginia Lee Burton, the Folly Cove Designers were a group of Massachusetts designer-craftsmen whose shared interests in craftsmanship, pattern, and New England material culture united them across class and ethnic backgrounds. Their artistic and commercial success printing their designs onto textiles energized and legitimized the group, both as a collective of primarily women and as an artist’s cooperative.

Christine Lundberg, producer of the award-winning film Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place, will introduce Scanlon.

This program is $10 for CAM members / $15 for non-members (includes admission). Space is limited; reservations are required. For additional information/tickets, please call: (978) 283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org. Tickets can also be purchased online at Eventbrite.

Holy Mackerel

Megan Merlin submitted

Google took a bunch of random photos from my cell phone camera roll on our trip to Playa and made this stylized video on its own.