Peoria Methodist Church
Tree of Life Progress

Recent Journal Entries

Horvath Family


Here's a great family. Brian and Gigi and the whole bunch of em'. This is a painting I'm looking...

Art Appreciation Series

Art Appreciation


There are different approaches to art appreciation. There's the "who paid 12 million dollars for wh...

Art Appreciation Part II, The Economics of Art


When Damien Hirst's work, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" becom...

Art Appreciation Part IV The Intellectual


Technically all art is about ideas, even if the art is about emotion, even the technically excell...

Slater Summer Daze
Don and Joyce Thornwall

by S. Richard Shook

The Tree of Life
Part I

by S. Richard Shook

My Friend, Iraqi Artist Amer Saleh Alobaidi


One of the things that my wife and I enjoy very much are collecting books about the things that we e...