Speed of Life

Kent Chadwick in a Saffron Hug Bob Chadwick in Uniform Ralph Heilemann in DC9 Hat The Furrow -WS Merwin Did I think it would abide as it was forever all that time ago the turned earth in the old garden where I stood in spring remembering spring in another place that had ceased to exist and the dug roots kept giving up their black tokens their coins and bone buttons and shoe nails made by hands and bits of plates as the thin clouds of that season slipped past gray branches on which the early white petals were catching their light and I thought I knew something of age then my own age which had conveyed me to there and the ages of the trees and the walls and houses from before my coming and the age of the new seeds as I set each one in the ground to begin to remember what to become and the order in which to return and even the other age into which I was passing all the time while I was thinking...

Remarks by the President to the Nation on the BP Oil Spill Full Transcript of Speech from the Oval Office June 15, 2010 8:01 P.M. EDT Good evening. As we speak, our nation faces a multitude of challenges. At home, our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American. Abroad, our brave men and women in uniform are taking the fight to al Qaeda wherever it exists. And tonight, I’ve returned from a trip to the Gulf Coast to speak with you about the battle we’re waging against an oil spill that is assaulting our shores and our citizens. On April 20th, an explosion ripped through BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, about 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Eleven workers lost their lives. Seventeen others were injured. And soon, nearly a mile beneath the surface of the ocean, oil began spewing into the water. Because there has never been a leak this size at this depth, stopping it has tested the limits of human technology. ...

"June 09, 2010 — What if we could make a difference by doing something simple? A bunch of us walked into a bookstore in downtown Washington, DC, sat down and started chanting OM. Here's what happened." BuddhaFest "Om" Flashmob in a Washington DC Bookstore Produced by Cory Wilson DC's First Buddhist Film Festival runs from June 17th until June 20th. SCHEDULE All events at the Katzen Arts Center at American University unless otherwise noted on the schedule. A few events will be held across the street at the Kay Spiritual Life Center. Location 4400 Massachusetts Ave, Washington, DC, 20016 THURSDAY - JUNE 17 6:30 PM | Opening Reception: Featuring contemporary Asian refreshments from Mie N Yu of Georgetown and an opening ceremony led by Tibetan Drupon Tinley Ningpo. 8:00 PM | Opening Film: Cherry Blossoms FRIDAY - JUNE 18 4:30 PM | FREE SCREENING: Fire Under the Snow 7:00 PM | Program: Tara Brach and Lama Surya Das Living Buddha - Awakening in...

From the curator: Murmurs New Paintings By Gregg Chadwick Artwalk Culver City 2010 “In Gregg Chadwick’s paintings there is an elegiac tone, a kind of nostalgia for a manifestation of the purely spiritual that most of us can never hope to attain. The paintings are truly captivating in that they invite us irresistibly into their spaces and hold the attention there in their swirl of light and color, suggesting inexhaustible depths of experience for the eye to explore.” -Peter Clothier It is my pleasure to feature Gregg Chadwick’s artwork to a growing audience at the Artwalk Culver City 2010. Chadwick’s vision is global and inclusive. The paintings in Murmurs encourage viewers to travel into their haunting beauty. Fittingly, within the past year Chadwick’s paintings have entered collections in Tokyo, Rio, Paris, and Amsterdam as well as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston. Chadwick is currently at work on paintings for a major exhibition slated to open in October 2010 at the Manifesta M...

The Call - ندا -Neda , originally uploaded by greggchadwick . Gregg Chadwick The Call - ندا -Neda 36"x48" oil on linen 2009

The Call - ندا -Neda , originally uploaded by greggchadwick . Gregg Chadwick The Call - ندا -Neda 36"x48" oil on linen 2009

Louise Bourgeois photographed in 1990 behind her marble sculpture Eye to Eye (1970) Photo Raimon Ramis © Adagp, Paris 2008 "I have been to Hell and back and let me tell you it was wonderful." - Louise Bourgeois The artist Louise Bourgeois has died at 98 on Monday at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. It seemed that she would live forever. Her career has been historic. Holland Cotter has just written in the New York Times that "her psychologically charged abstract sculptures, drawings and prints had a galvanizing effect on younger artists, particularly women." I have been inspired by Louise Bourgeois' work for quite some time, having encountered her sculptures for the first time when I was a High School student taking classes at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC. Her life ends but the mystery embodied in her artwork lives on. A recent bio provides the details: "Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 to a family of tapestry restorers...