What, besides projecting the ownership of a domain name, might the function of a personal web page be? Because search engines have introduced me to you, I can use this page to tell you, dear reader and probably total stranger, why I write the way I do and why I live my life the way I do, and to convey my hope you will find something useful here.
I believe in using art to speak for nature. As the child of biologists and spouse of an ecologist, all my life I have appreciated the natural world. I also know that lovely world is under threat from human activities. I feel obliged to do my part to spread words on behalf of the survival of the natural world—and not incidentally our own human survival.
Nature is healing. I know that more personally than many other people might because I had the experience of a near-fatal Traumatic Brain Injury in 1999. As I asked my brain to take on more and more challenges, I eventually healed enough to make nature-based poems and digital paintings. This enabled me to make what I call Fusion Surimono, after the 19th century Japanese printed poems. When a reader in the wide web world found me via this personal web page and requested a copy of something I had written forty years ago, I understood more than ever the value of sharing healing experiences. That is the story of A Gift.
I invite you to explore my readings, to get out and enjoy the natural world, to use nature to heal yourself, and in return for that healing, to share in the satisfaction that comes from doing what you can on behalf of mankind and all of life that shares this planet.
Marnie Reed Crowell
I believe in using art to speak for nature. As the child of biologists and spouse of an ecologist, all my life I have appreciated the natural world. I also know that lovely world is under threat from human activities. I feel obliged to do my part to spread words on behalf of the survival of the natural world—and not incidentally our own human survival.
Nature is healing. I know that more personally than many other people might because I had the experience of a near-fatal Traumatic Brain Injury in 1999. As I asked my brain to take on more and more challenges, I eventually healed enough to make nature-based poems and digital paintings. This enabled me to make what I call Fusion Surimono, after the 19th century Japanese printed poems. When a reader in the wide web world found me via this personal web page and requested a copy of something I had written forty years ago, I understood more than ever the value of sharing healing experiences. That is the story of A Gift.
I invite you to explore my readings, to get out and enjoy the natural world, to use nature to heal yourself, and in return for that healing, to share in the satisfaction that comes from doing what you can on behalf of mankind and all of life that shares this planet.
Marnie Reed Crowell
