by Monica Emerich | Sep 19, 2017 | Craft, Culture, Scribal Affair, A Blog
Happy, intense absorption in any work, which is to be brought as near to perfection as possible, this is a state of being with God, and the men who have not known it have missed life itself.’ – D. H. Lawrence Oh, my. How has work become drudgery for so...
by Monica Emerich | Aug 23, 2017 | Culture
Washington, DC—April 1st, 2018 It’s been months since the solar eclipse shadowed corridors of the American landscape, welcomed by the cheers of millions of onlookers, but the effects are not yet over. While scientists warned Americans not to look directly at the sun,...
by Monica Emerich | Aug 28, 2014 | Culture, Scribal Affair, A Blog, Sustainability
Sustainability, as I tell students, is about the perseverance of hope through the manifestation of change. I recently returned from my first journey to the American South, to Mississippi, a place I’d regarded as one with as many tears in its cultural canvas as a...