Prince Charming and I recently attended the Restoration Arts Conference - "Beauty's Role in a Broken World".
It was so meaningful to me, on such a deep level, that I am finding it impossible to write about it.
You can watch a trailer of the documentary on the (beautiful) life and work of keynote speaker, artist Mako Fujimura, here.
You can read some of the essays written by break-out session speakers Margaret Manning and Jill Carattini here, including the one that prompted our trip to the conference.
I keep trying to form words to tell what being part of this deep conversation meant to me, but I can't do it; suffice to say it was a tremendous privilege and is still impacting my everyday life.
Of course, because I never want to miss capturing any visual images which might aid my memory, or your understanding, I took my camera with me.
During one break-out session, when the speaker asked how many people in the room were artists, there was almost a 100% show of hands; yet this was a conference about ideas and, in the end, I took exactly one photograph.
In the ladies bathroom.
I was so tickled and pleased that someone, whose work is the rather mundane business of manufacturing and selling public bathroom stall doors, had enough fun in their heart to put this kind of stamp their product:
Ain't it great?