for families, musicians, lovers, and more • mostly on film • in Virginia and beyond
“absolutely unmixed attention is prayer”
- Simone Weil
“At the back of our brains, there is a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder.”
- G.K. Chesterton
“For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring