Catherine Duncan

Aug 22, 2024 | source.ie | Catherine Duncan

Issue 8 Summer 1996View Contents ▸When is wearing high heels and your best frock an act of defiance? Well, one occasion is a war zone in Bosnia. It is this sort of detail that inspires Tom Stoddart to take the pictures he does, whether the subject be Bosnia, Beirut or Romania. Detail encourages a more intimate connection with images, with their subjects, touches us where long shots of massed hardware and troops cannot. Detail etches a truth that cannot be denied by any future revisionist histories.

Aug 22, 2024 | source.ie | Catherine Duncan

Issue 5 Summer 1995View Contents ▸Published by: The Photographers' Gallery, LondonISBN: 0907879462Price: £40.00Paul Seawright takes photographs of Northern Ireland. He says "It is only my interpretation" It is the "only" that gives it away. Here is an accomplished artist, from Belfast, taking photographs of his own country.

May 30, 2024 | uthscsa.edu | Ashley Byrd |Catherine Duncan

Growing up in the small East Texas town of Jasper, Ashley Byrd was taught the value of education by her parents. Her maternal grandmother was illiterate and had to end her formal education in eighth grade. “My mom wanted much more for me. She knew how tough it had been for her mother,” Byrd said. This same beloved grandmother also would unintentionally play a role in the career path her granddaughter would choose. “As a child, I saw my grandmother dying of cancer.

Sep 8, 2023 | mindbodygreen.com | Catherine Duncan

You don't have to call it GodI see my soul, my essence, as grounded in oneness with something larger than myself. I most often call that "something greater" God or the Divine. Yet there's a whole range of other words that fit too—like Source, Oneness, God, Allah, Great Spirit, the Infinite Field, love or Love, universal energy, a higher power, the quantum field.

Sep 4, 2023 | mindful.org | Catherine Duncan

When we live in the present moment rather than on autopilot, caught up in our thoughts, we increase our capacity for a feeling of vibrant aliveness, a sharp sense of presence in daily life. I feel this as a vibration that courses through my body in moments of awe. It happens when I hear the enchanting calls of a flock of geese. I feel it when I see the full moon light up the sky, illuminating the lake near my house, or when a friend or stranger greets me with a warm hello.