oil, collaged text on wood panel 10 x 10"

awakening in Arbuda 14 x 14" oil

flower study 14 x 14” oil

"Kind Bunny Hurls Carrots" oil 16 x 20" and flower studies

altar flower studies 8 x 8" oil on wood panel

flower studies (of altar flowers at omzlouisville.com) oil on panel 8x8"

oil and collage on wood panel 8 x 8"

flowers - oil on 8 x 8" wood panel

reception today 3-5, talk at 4 eepurl.com/jojCp-/

"Recall: 2000-2024" show closing and talk this Sunday 3-5 (talk at 4 pm) at garnerlarge.com

"throwing carrots" oil on canvas 16 x 20"

"sit through it" oil on canvas 51 x 57"

Julie Nelson will speak in person and Zoom at omzlouisville.com Sat. June 7, 11 AM EST. Free. Register: forms.gle/1HzH5xExRKRx... "Hers is a Zen that has the potential to outlive—and outgrow—our fantasies of perfectly enlightened, Yoda-like Masters". —Barry Magid #zen #zenbuddhism

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

"black swan event #2 (mu)" showing now at garnerlarge.com in "recall: 2000-2024" #louisville #louisvilleart #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting

Happy Buddha's birthday! Be invited to take or retake the Three Pure Precepts: May I cleanse evil thoughts. May I do good deeds. May I help save all living beings. 🙏🙏🙏 #buddhism #zenbuddhism #louisville #buddhasbirthday

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This week at Open Mind Zen Louisville: When human calculation is small, knowledge is small. When a life span is fleeting, thinking is fleeting. Then, how is it possible to make calculations about the awesome presence of active buddhas? mailchi.mp/828a0598db83... #zen #zenbuddhism #louisville

a morning cappuccino with Bob @ the whirling tiger

Installing "recall (2000-2024)" at garnerlarge.com #louisville #louisvilleart #painting

Catch the Louisville Improvisors, this Friday night! (And a soft show opening for me.) #louisville #improv #improvcomedy #contemporaryart #painting mailchi.mp/4114c38cf431...

This week at Open Mind Zen Louisville #zen #zenbuddhism #whiteplumasangha mailchi.mp/e50c0e6778c8...

development detail "sit through it" (working title)

You've probably all heard of "sane washing" by now. The practice of making Trump sound less goofy than he actually is. Nazi washing should be the new term of art for describing Musk's Hitler Salute as anything else. My latest is on Religion Dispatches. religiondispatches.org/while-global...

"inaugurate" @ garner narrative installed January 20, 2025 through Sunday Feb. 23 Angie Reed Garner Joyce Garner Will Garner Maureen Hagerman Shawn Marshall Aaron Raymer Mark Zanni reception Sunday Feb. 9, 2-4pm talk at 3pm graphic: Shawn Marshall, Mark Zanni, Joyce Garner

Done. “Rag Tree” 48 x 48” oil on canvas #art

indentured heroes in that firescape with handtools not hoses. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

You can listen to me talk about Strategies of Resistance on the Political Research Associates (PRA) Inform Your Resistance podcast here: politicalresearch.org/2024/12/19/s...

religiondispatches.org/idaho-legisl... My latest, with my colleague Annie Wilkenson, on the wrong-headed and bigoted from the Idaho Legislature.

blm 48 x 60” oil

This sounds familiar, here in Louisville.

There is a good bit of lib & left(ish) celebration happening related to the dust-up between Elon + tech bros and the hard ethnonationalist right of the MAGAverse. substack.com/home/post/p-1537…; substack.com/home/post/p-1537…. It's time to exploit but not to celebrate. (see thread)

She told a police officer she was in labor. The Louisville Metro Police Department lieutenant cited her for unlawful camping as the ambulance arrived. She had a baby later that day. www.lpm.org/news/2024-12...

Re-upping this as we draw closer to regime change, though the CR showdown is a preview. religiondispatches.org/author/s_gar...

If the most crucial goal of the Trump regime is to manufacture mass complicity, how should we react? Here are 10 practical suggestions for people looking to resist. From @vetanthropology.bsky.social: ow.ly/S4b150UmwSu

My new piece on resisting authoritarianism. religiondispatches.org/authoritaria...

I like repairing busted things.

🌱 theintercept.com/2024/11/12/a...

Followers of the way: On the day I first committed myself to a life of Zen practice. 'Zen Sickness', Zen Master Hakuin. buddhismnow.com/2015/09/12/z...

a detail from last night's painting, working title "rag tree"