Carol Wiebe

Dance, sing, pray, make art . . . . to heal yourself and our Mother Earth. #YouTube #prayer #education #MotherEarth #InternationalCouncilof13IndigenousGrandmothers #healing

This is so lovely. I found it on Jude Hill’s Spirit Cloth. She called it amazing, and I absolutely agree. This little stop animation speaks so gently, yet powerfully, of sacrifice, of being willing to “let go” of someone you love because you realize that they must have the freedom they need to pursue their own dreams. I have written about Rima before, and am delighted that she has added another video to her repertoire. Rima’s Etsy Store Rima’s YouTube Channel P.S. Rima, if I

Enjoy this poem by teacher/poet Taylor Mali, which photographer Ronnie Bruce has “animated” typographically. #CarolWiebe #YouTube #TaylorMali #RonnieBruce #poetry #typography

My post about printmaker Karen Kunc prompted a comment from artist Deb Sims: Am I the only one who has both a sense of “Wow, how fabulous” and “Geez, I can never hope to experience/create/attain this level with my art” when I see someone like this? My reply? I think there is a great chain of art making and, like the great chain of being, it has its levels. While you are busy looking “up” the chain and wondering if you could ever achieve that level, someone else is gazing up a

I am a librarian and teacher at a special needs school for 3 days of the week.  I have the wonderful job of sharing stories, songs, rhymes and puppetry with kindergarten students. I already knew that the combination of puppets and children is magic, so you can imagine my delighted response to this video from Coldplay. (Of course, there is puppetry in Viva La Vida as well.) #VivalaVIda #YouTube #Coldplay #LifeinTechnicolorII #puppetry #kindergarten #magic

I admit I have never been concerned with being “current.” It’s not important to me to be the first to buy something or see something. I find things in my own time, on my own terms. Sometimes, they happen to be current. Lately, I’ve been reading Seth Godin. I had heard about Tribes here and there, and vaguely connected  it with the reality show Survivor.  There is also a Tribes program that various school boards have adopted “to transform young lives.” I was actually looking f

Margaret Wertheim and her twin sister Christine Wertheim created a coral reef: an invocation, in crochet, to the beauty that is coral. That’s correct, they crocheted it. PHE-NO-ME-NAL. This is so spacious in its conception, so widespread in its manifestation, so inspiring in its combination of the fields of mathematics, marine biology, feminine handicraft and environmental activism, that I am left breathless. This is crochet that made a difference. If I had used the following

Leah Piken Kolidas really flipped a switch in my psyche. When I responded to her Robert Moss interview in March, it reawakened an interest in the power of dreams. I immediately pulled old dream books off my shelf, and put a few new ones on hold at my public library. Soon, I had The Three ‘Only’ Things in my hands, and was avidly devouring it. The subtitle identifies what those three things are:  Tapping the power of Dreams, Coincidence & Imagination. Amazon offers a summary,

Once upon a time, a young woman named Rima Nomadic embarked on a journey with her  princely troubador Tui. They constructed a home on wheels, which a few may have been fortunate enough to spy, wending its way through a mystic wood. But for the rest of us, she has created another home, a digital abode christened The Hermitage. The Hermitage is “a phantasmagoria of fancy, a museum of myth, a realm of the ridiculous.” We are all invited to behold the treasures she has to offer,

Some time ago (2007) I watched Sir Ken Robinson on YouTube, talking about creativity, and was blown away by his presentation (it was taped at  TED). This man offers serious ideas, but with a charm and humor that makes them entertaining.  One of the stories he shared was that of a little girl drawing during an art exercise. When asked by the teacher to describe what it was, she replied “I am drawing a picture of  God.” “But no-one knows what God looks like,”  the teacher insis

I received an update to Jessica Wesolek’s Cre8it Art Blog today. Jessica is the very talented inventor of Sheer Heaven, to name but one product in her line. Her November 26, 2008 blog post features a wonderful Youtube presentation called, “Art, Art, I want you!” I have to pass it on as well. The artist on this video is Andrea Dorfman, and the poem is by Tanya Davis. Both these highly creative women are Canadians. We Canadians really know how to express our desires, eh? And yo