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Ulster County Events in August 2013

Annandale-on-Hudson Exhibit: "No Borders in a Wok That Can't Be Crossed." Works by Helen Marten and "Once Again the World is Flat," b...

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Dutchess County Events in August 2013

Exhibit: "No Borders in a Wok That Can't Be Crossed." Works by Helen Marten and "Once Again the World is Flat," by Haim Steinbach. ...

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Feature Articles

Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville

Major facelift completed in time for new season of shows by Tod Westlake If you haven’t been to Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville for...

11 Jul 2013 | 0 comments| Read more

The Heritage Wheat Revival

Stone ground ancient grains are packed with nutrients by Anne Pyburn Craig Wheat has been grown and domesticated ever since our specie...

02 Jul 2013 | 0 comments| Read more

Walkway Over the Hudson

New records being broken as new developments arise.    When Camoin Associates studied the potential economic impact of the Walk...

02 Apr 2013 | 0 comments| Read more

Radio Uprising by CMP

Local radio continues to inspire and push new boundaries. by Anne Pyburn Craig Mia Chin was a student throughout the progra...

01 Mar 2013 | 0 comments| Read more

Publisher's Editorial

  • 02 Aug 2013 Three Year Anniversary
  • 02 Aug 2013 Red Baron of Rhinebeck
The Yardavore

In the Weeds

by Maria Reidelbach Maybe you've never thought about this, but what is the definition of a weed? A weed is, simply, any type of plan...

11 Jul 2013 | 0 comments| Read more

Trees for Bees

by Maria Reidelbach Last month in my column about bees, Chris Harp, local apiarist, explained that the blossoms of fruit Mulberries...

13 May 2013 | 1 comments| Read more

Deerly Departed

by Maria Reidelbach Last month we talked about the havoc that deer wreak in your garden. We covered how deer are gourmets and like ...

08 Mar 2013 | 0 comments| Read more

Skål!

by Maria Reidelbach If you think we upstaters have it rough in the winter, check out Sweden. It's got the same latitude as Nova Scotia,...

05 Dec 2012 | 0 comments| Read more
Transition Field Notes

Relating with Permaculture: Principle #11

Use Edges and Value the Marginal by Deena Wade Founder of the Transition movement, Rob Hopkins, taught permaculture—design principl...

02 Aug 2013 | 0 comments| Read more

People In Your Neighborhood

Food & Restaurant

Fruit of the valley provides essential goodness.

by Phoenix Trent The Hudson Valley is a bounty of fresh produce throughout the calendar year, but the diverse offerings that the summer...

30 Jul 2013 | Read more
Arts & Music

From the Fisher Center to Lincoln Center:

The Bard Conservatory Orchestra and its well-rounded education. by Philip Ehrensaft Of all the Bard College success stories,...

28 May 2013 | Read more
Horoscopes

Inner Space for August 2013

by Eric Francis The Leo New Moon is Tuesday, August 6 at 5:50pm. This event is synchronous with the midsummer festival Lunesa, also kn...

02 Aug 2013 | Read more
Local Economy

Farming Risks and Rewards

Increase in local farmers and markets a sign of the times.   by Anne Pyburn Craig Besides being backbreaking, farming is a ...

16 Oct 2012 | Read more
Bread & Roses

It’s All Here

by Sherill Hatch “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.” This century-old labor slogan bears repeating today. Beau...

02 Aug 2013 | Read more
New Economics

Buddhist Economics 2.0

By David McCarthy E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful, first published in 1973 and still in print, is arguably the cornerstone of w...

02 Aug 2013 | Read more
Re>think Local

TEDxLongDock:

This is What Community Looks Like by Scott Tillitt The Dalai Lama visited NYC in 2003 for a week of events culminating in a public t...

02 Aug 2013 | Read more
Culture Features

New York Theater's Industrial Incubator

Vassar's Powerhouse Festival kicks off its 29th edition by Philip Ehrensaft Chloe Sevigny in Abigail/1702. © Vassar & ...

10 Jun 2013 | Read more

Daily Video

It’s All Here

by Sherill Hatch

“The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.” This century-old labor slogan bears repeating today. Beauty, pleasure, celebration—the “roses” of life—are not extras; they’re just as essential as food and shelter to our well-being.

To start meeting everyone’s needs for both bread and roses, it’s important to insist that governments and businesses make the appropriate changes. But it’s also crucial to embrace, create and share the bread-and-roses paradigm in our individual lives, here and now. Even in a world in which resources can seem scarce, commitment, openness and ingenuity can reveal some amazing roses.

Local artist Andres San Millan is a great example. Awhile back he decided it was time to expand beyond his previous artistic parameters and do what he’d always wanted to do: create a really large sculpture. He knew that moving forward with his dream was a vital part of his life’s work—but he didn’t have the financial resources to purchase materials for such a large piece.

The way San Millan responded to that seeming obstacle can inspire all of us who seek more of the roses in life. He used Hudson River driftwood to create a work infused with such grace, meaning and power that it’s clear this artist and this medium were destined to work together.

The 13-foot sculpture, Man, on exhibit in front of Taste Budd’s Cafe in Red Hook, is a dynamic archetypal figure that carries the same energy as the driftwood of which it’s made. San Millan, who has a deep affinity for Native American culture, says, “I wanted Man to reflect those cultures, the way they flow without resisting the rhythms of nature. That’s the same reason the earth goes around the sun: nothing impedes it, so it just keeps going with the flow. Driftwood does that too.”

And that same energy powered San Millan’s creative process. Instead of resisting the circumstances with which we’re faced, he says, we can know that “we have everything we need. It’s all here.” When I stand looking at Man, I know in my bones that’s true.

My family and I attended the installation of Man, looking for something interesting to do on a frigid January day. What we experienced went way beyond interesting. The power and beauty of the piece fed our souls deeply, reminding us that art is as vital as bread.

Our culture tends to pressure us to starve the right sides of our brains. San Millan says, “The right side of the brain is spiritual, empathic, creative, wild, spontaneous. It’s alive and it has needs. We absolutely need to nourish it because it’s part of us.”

To spend time with Man, on exhibit through December, visit Taste Budd’s Cafe, 40 West Market Street, Red Hook. For more on Andres San Millan (who also cofounded the Cocoon Theatre in Rhinebeck with his wife, Marguerite), visit figureartscape.com or email andres@figureartscape.com.

Sherill Hatch blogs at fulljoy.us, offers life coaching, and facilitates the support group Stone Soup: Living Sustainably on a Shoestring.

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