Karen Lindell

California

Staff Writer and Editor, Ranker.com and Freelance Writer at Freelance

Writer/Reporter/Editor; Winnie-the-Pooh purist (classic, not Disney); Columbia Journalism School M.A. student 2024-25; https://t.co/aJ4HSNEC8W

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Articles

Discovering an environmental imagination in unexpected places

2 months ago | ncronline.org | Jim McDermott |Karen Lindell

Amidst the constant cacophony of the news cycle and a thousand new crises erupting daily, how do you make a case for the environment? I’ve been pondering this since last fall when I saw the intriguing French documentary 7 Walks with Mark Brown at the New York Film Festival. Filmed by Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré, 7 Walks follows paleobotanist Mark Brown and a small film group undertaking seven hikes across different parts of Normandy, where Brown shows them astonishingly ancient plants.
At LA Congress, musician Meredith Augustin brings inclusive, contemplative ethos

2 months ago | ncronline.org | Karen Lindell |James Martin |Michael Sean Winters

Half a block from Penn Station in New York City, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is filled with people, but dark and silent. Until a woman's a cappella voice, warm and resonant, suddenly pierces the stillness, "Thula ... thula ... thula ..." "It's a Zulu word that means 'Be still,' 'Be quiet,' " explains Meredith Augustin, who led the cry of "thula" that evening at last year's Easter Vigil.
Showing Their Values

Dec 13, 2024 | news.callutheran.edu | Karen Lindell

The 17 strong needed to narrow 16 values down to a final four. Basketball isn’t the only college sport with a sweet-16 bracket. Before the NCAA Division III playoffs in April, the Cal Lutheran men’s volleyball team, whose 17 members called themselves the “17 strong” — because every single player is important — met in a Best Western Plus Hotel conference room in Iowa with their coaches at a whiteboard to narrow down their collective 16 core values.
Freedom from the Spaces, Places, and Plastics that Bind

Nov 14, 2024 | culturebot.org | Karen Lindell

Freedom from the Spaces, Places, and Plastics that Bind in Responses Breaking free — from a cord, a confined space, cultural norms — can be a lonely, painful endeavor. But it doesn’t have to be. In “Quartiers libres,” translated as “free rein,” choreographer and artist Nadia Beugré of Ivory Coast brings the audience along with her on a trek to potential freedom that is by turns agonizing and joyful.
The little shop of wonders: Serendipity

Jun 19, 2024 | ojaivalleynews.com | Karen Lindell

The smudges on the glass windows were a sign — not of serendipity, but stability. When the pandemic hit, Serendipity Toys in Ojai, like other small retail businesses, initially had to close for several months. Lilly and Joe Barthelemy, who founded the small toy store in 1979 on Matilija Street behind the Arcade, didn’t want to go online and become e-tailers. “We just have to hunker down; people will come back,” Joe insisted. Periodically, he stopped by the shuttered store.
Liquid Sun

Jun 6, 2024 | ojaivalleynews.com | Karen Lindell

The ojai Valley can be an oasis for olive oil growersSunshine bouncing between the silvery leaves of an olive tree drove Pierre-Auguste Renoir bonkers. The impressionist painter, living out his final days in France while suffering from arthritis, wrote of the olive trees he saw at his villa on the French Riviera: "Look at the light on the olives. It sparkles like diamonds.
UnBroken

Jun 6, 2024 | ojaivalleynews.com | Karen Lindell

At Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland is a room with an exhibit of 2 tons of hair, shorn from the corpses of nearly 40,000 people murdered at the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp. During the Holocaust, the hair of many other murdered people was packed, dried, and sold as raw textile material. Hair is such an intimate, personal thing. Ojai documentarian Beth Lane knows that well. Lane’s Jewish grandmother, Lina Weber, once had long, dark hair.
14 Children's Poets Loved By Adults, Too

May 16, 2024 | ranker.com | Karen Lindell

If poetry was not your favorite subject in school because it was reduced to memorizing singsong rhymes or studying meter, metaphor, and metonymy, discard the alliterative tongs of banality and analysis, and immerse yourself in the best poetry for kids, which can be a delightful yet also deep experience. Like the authors of the greatest children's books, the top children's poets are writing for both kids and the adults who love and read to them, and want them to love reading.
Every Poet Laureate Of The United States

May 15, 2024 | ranker.com | Karen Lindell

In his poem “The Trouble with Poetry," former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins writes about ”the urge to write poetry / to sit in the dark and wait for a little flame / to appear at the tip of my pencil." Poets have been burning up our ears with verse long before pencils were invented, so it's a little surprising the US took so long to officially (via federal legislation) come up with the idea of a “Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress” in 1937, with the first honoree being Joseph...
Julie Gerard plants seeds of community support at farmers’ market

May 9, 2024 | ojaivalleynews.com | Karen Lindell

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