Chalk Mandala – Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant

For The Daily Post's Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant, I chose this picture of the riotously colorful chalk mandala that the Temenos Center's Artist-in-Residence, Rich Francisco (See his other work on his facebook page or his website), drew for our Open House on Sunday, January 24th.  We requested that he model this work after a mandala …

The Beowulf Complex: A Frightening and Beautiful Story

Beowulf is a frightening and beautiful story. It is an Anglo-Saxon poem of heroic battles against monsters. The hero, Beowulf, goes to a kingdom that is being plagued by a monster named Grendel, who attacks the great hall only at night, killing and destroying. Beowulf, after a heroic struggle with sea monsters, arrives to bring …