Opening Our Moral Eye

M. C. Richards's extraordinary career, spanning half a century, stretching from Black Mountain to Creation Theology, and passing through lifetimes of pottery, painting, poetry, and teaching, is an occasion for the celebration of life and of the particular life of Mary Caroline Richards, exemplary twentieth-century Renaissance woman, passionate thinker, and philosophical artist.This new collection of essays, conversations, and talks from the author of the timeless classic Centering demonstrates how, to the moral eye, everything -- art, education, community, the natural world -- opens up with feeling and, above all, with love. Reading these pages, we become aware of how awake M. C. Richards has been to the most important issues of our time: the need for true community, continuous learning, and the truth of seeing spirit in all realms. We see how great influences -- oriental aesthetics, anthroposophy and Waldorf education, Jungian psychology, the craft of pottery, the practice of imagination -- become unique and personal in the crucible of creativity.Accompanying the essays and talks are four color plates showing new paintings and a substantial collection of new poems.