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Beauty and Wonder

Elegy for A. and M.

August 31, 2020 By Susannah Fox 16 Comments

Elegy for unaccompanied viola, by Benjamin Britten

I grew up rich in cousins. I spent holidays with my first cousins and lived, starting at age 11, in the same town with second cousins (the children of my mother’s first cousin) AND a first cousin twice removed (my grandmother’s first cousin – each generation that separates us is the “removed” part). Don’t worry, […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, end of life Tagged With: caregivers, end of life, family

Surviving a pandemic like an artist

April 14, 2020 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Snow covered mountains with text reading: Life is so bizarre it must be a bad dream

Through her work as a film-maker, Maggie Whittum helps the rest of us make sense of this upside-down world we find ourselves in. And she reminds us that, unfortunately, this disorientation is familiar to people who survive stroke. Andrew Simonet, founder and director of Artists U, recently wrote an essay entitled, “This is What We […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Andrew Simonet, art, COVID19, Maggie Whittum, stroke

Bits of beauty

March 24, 2020 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Flowers beautifully arranged in a bowl

“Find a bit of beauty in the world today. Share it. If you can’t find it, create it. Some days this may be hard to do. Persevere.” – Lisa Bonchek Adams (1969-2015) This is a hard time. There’s no getting around it. But I keep finding glimmers of light and bits of beauty, online and […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder Tagged With: Lisa Bonchek Adams, Wakelet

Sunflowers turn to each other for help

October 8, 2019 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

Sunflowers with a bee

Sunflowers have always been my favorite flower and now I know why: They turn to each other for help. Image: My backyard sunflower patch at its midsummer height (I gave up on growing vegetables this year and reaped a crop of beauty instead).

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: sunflowers

Art and data

April 1, 2019 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Jacqueline von Edelberg created a striking installation on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, March 25. Each strip of cloth represents one child killed by a gun in the U.S. since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, 13,000 in all. The installation served as a backdrop for a rally commemorating the one year […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, health data Tagged With: art, gun violence, Health Data, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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