Burnside published my visual art take on the verse “a time to mourn.” You can see it here.
Tag Archives: time
Clip: A Time to Laugh
17 Apr
The post “A Time to Weep” seems more appropriate this week, after the Boston Marathon explosions, but yesterday my pre-scheduled post “A Time to Laugh” went up on Burnside. It’s just two works of art and a verse, like most of the blog posts in this “A Time to…” series. Sometimes, though, short is effective. If you need a little levity, silly renditions of the Mona Lisa might be just what you need.
Clip: A Time to Weep
3 Apr
My art post “A Time to Weep” went up on Burnside yesterday.
The photo above is of a statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Catholics refer to her as Our Lady of Lourdes because of the apparition Saint Bernadette had of her in Lourdes, France.
Jack Kerouac fans may be interested in my Church Hopping column on the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Clip: A Time to Build
28 MarIn case you missed it, the art I curated for Burnside’s latest “A Time to…” series posted last week. This one’s on “A Time to Build.”
It shows a photograph of the two beams of light that serve as a reminder of the Twin Towers. I began working in Manhattan a month after 9/11. I used to see these light sculptures all the time while walking in the Village. I don’t remember them being discontinued, but I do remember how they stopped me in my tracks when I saw them turned on again at the ten-year anniversary date of the attacks. The lights may represent the physical buildings that were lost and honor those who lost their lives, but for me they also are a symbol of hope and resilience. The light pierces the darkness, showing that sometimes the intangible is more powerful than the physical.
Clip: A Time to Tear Down
19 MarIn case you missed it, the art I curated for Burnside’s latest “A Time to…” series posted last week. This one’s on “A Time to Tear Down.”
It involves Legos.
Writing Wednesday: Today’s the Day
2 NovWhat are you doing today?
It’s so easy to have a mentality of just trying to get through the day. Or just trying to make it through the week to get to the weekend. Isn’t that part of why we celebrate “Hump Day”?
Writing Wednesday is fun alliteration, but having a post on writing mid-week is also motivational. It’s a reminder to get writing! We’re midweek, so don’t let the rest of the week go by without writing, if that’s your goal. Today’s as good a day as any to write.
Can you squeeze a few moments of writing into your Wednesday? It doesn’t have to be a lot of time. Maybe you can write on your lunch break. Maybe you can write on your commute, if you take the bus or the train. Maybe you can write while you’re waiting for the water to boil on the stove. You might not accomplish a ton of writing in that time, but it may spark something in you that makes you more adamant about carving out more time soon to finish what you started writing.
And for those of you who aren’t writers, you can also use that same amount of time to sketch something you want to later paint, look at a map to determine where you want to next travel, make a phone call to make plans with that new friend you’ve been meaning to get to know, or send out that application.
Today could be the day that brings you a little closer to achieving your dreams. Or, it could be just another ordinary day.
Yiasou!
Stephanie Nikolopoulos is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and speaker based in New York City.
She is the coauthor, with Paul Maher Jr., of "Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.'"
You can email her at stephanie_701 {@} yahoo.com
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