Art Spotlight: “A Study in Light” by Gracie Morris
Artist Description: Featuring the same fire hydrant outside of Braniff painted at two different times of day. One painted at 6 p.m. (left) and the other at 3 a.m. (right) captures how...
Family Traditions: literary liturgy
Last weekend while on a Zoom call with my family, who is scattered throughout the country, we referenced at least three children’s books we had enjoyed growing up. Reading picture books with...
Art Spotlight: “St. Peter” by Helen Maier
Artist Description: Shortly after my time in Rome, I was inspired to depict our first pope in this watercolor piece. Like us, Peter was called and chosen despite his weakness. He denied...
Charity Week traditions: the jail
You are walking down the mall late in the morning of a clear autumnal Friday. The leaves are beginning to turn colors while the tower bells announce the change of the hour,...
Art Spotlight: “Appetite” by Alisa Nascimento
Medium: Ink on Mulberry paper
Artist's description: Though disconnected through language, a young girl seeks to understand her cultural heritage through food as she gazes into the window of...
Family Traditions: Loving the simple things, together
My family has been fortunate enough to be able to visit my relatives in Mexico every year. When I am in Mexico, I am humbled by the simplicity of life that my...
Annual serenity: the new year celebration in Sri-Lanka
While the rest of the world welcomes a new year on Jan. 1, I celebrate the new year on April 13-14 in Sri-Lanka. The season of Aluth Avurudu is the most important...
An identity formed at the summit
My parents fell in love in the wild rains and green grassy plains of West Africa. As a result, my older sister and I were raised there. My childhood was full of...
The sweet and savory culture of Brasil
Before I was born, my parents made the life-changing decision to move to the United States. This journey wasn’t an easy one, my dad came over first to the US with only...
Family Traditions: Late nights at the Vietnamese flower market
As you grow older in an ethnic household, you unlock new things that you are allowed to do each year, like levels in a video game. For me and my family in...