The Art of Soil

You're receiving this email because you are a DailyGood subscriber. Trouble Viewing? On a mobile? Just click here. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe. June 19, 2022 a project of ServiceSpace The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. - Wendell Berry - The Art of Soil "Karen Vaughan is a scientist, paint maker, educator, mom, and artist. The soils she studies and learns from and with during her day job as an associate professor of pedology (the study of soil formation) have woven their way into her journey as an artist. Vaughan creates nature-inspired, soil-based watercolor paints that she uses to create art that communicates environmental challenges, conditions, and hopes of today. Using pigments gathered from nature and the laboratory, she creates work that interprets geologic time as expressed in the soil, sediment, coral, ice and other stratigraphic records." { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration, check out this piece, "The Soil's Story is the Story of Us." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Keys to Aging Well Two Words That Can Change a Life The Gentle Art of Blessing Thich Nhat Hanh: Ten Love Letters to the Earth On the Road with Thomas Merton 2021: Resources for the Journey 9 Rules for the Woke Birdwatcher Mary Oliver: I Happened to Be Standing DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 164,416 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More