by Ashley Larkin | Sep 9, 2016 | Faith, Risk-taking
If you missed part 1 of my interview with singer-songwriter Ginny Owens yesterday, you can catch that here. (Earlier today I posted this as an audio clip, but due to some issues with sound quality, I’ve posted it now in text form.) In this portion of the...
by Ashley Larkin | Jul 30, 2014 | Joy, Risk-taking, Surrender, Trust
I mix a splash of spruce green acrylic paint with the chartreuse, let my paintbrush pick up and lay down the two colors unevenly. I do not know what will appear before me when I do. I hold one of the raw wooden-handled brushes that sit in the jar on the shelf between...
by Ashley Larkin | Sep 9, 2013 | Childhood, Faith, Family, Favorite posts, Fear, Perspective, Surrender
My mother helped make me an artist because she taught me to see as one struck by wonder. Through her eyes, I first treasured thistle’s down and oak’s curved limb, leaf’s shadow and bird’s wing, the shapes of clouds and the kind of smiles made only with eyes. My mother...
by Ashley Larkin | May 13, 2013 | Concrete Words, Family, Just Write, Mothering, Perspective
We zoom in. We squint. We tilt heads and thrust necks forward. We walk to the next case, the next frame and hold hands behind our backs so as to notice without touching the strokes of oil, the blended hues creating glen and chin and river and belly. We look intent at...
by Ashley Larkin | Dec 14, 2012 | Celebration, Grace, Perspective, Poetry
Act I The snowflakes captivate with their grace, toes en pointe swirling through whirling, sparkling flurry. They do not slip, and I long to enter this world of freedom and time suspended, grace effortless. We are a line of Christmas clothes, three girls, Gaga and me...
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