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Mar 8

Mar 8 An Evolving Life. Red Sister.

An Evolving Life, Life Ramblings, Meryl Spiegel, Art Plus Conversation

Red Sister

Away on vacation this past week, I was determined to relax and block out the news that has been relentlessly disheartening this winter. I also tried to put aside my creative work—toting my camera just one day of the seven to the Mary Selby Botanical Gardens, a horticultural gem on Sarasota Bay.

Just before I hopped onto the shuttle that carried us to the garden, some spiky plants with flashes of hot pink lined up in front of the hotel caught my camera’s attention. I didn’t give the plants another thought until I arrived home to the news that Elizabeth Warren had dropped out of the presidential race.

After the others gave up the fight just before and after Super Tuesday leaving Warren as the only woman (of six) still standing, I expected her to follow suit. But when I saw those words crawl across the bottom of the TV screen Thursday morning, my heart sank.

It’s 2020 and still not the right time for a woman to lead us here in the United States despite the fact that women rule and have ruled in Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Mideast.

Then I recalled the one image I created with my SPLASH technique when I was trying not to work in Florida, and I was heartened. On our tour of the Selby garden back in Sarasota, I found out that the spiky pink plant is called Red Sister.

Someone somewhere is trying to tell me that our time will come, that we have to line up and wait yet again…

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An Evolving Life Series

2020 Posts

Tapper
Stripped Down
Solar Energy
Purple Soul
Red Sister (This one)

2019 Posts
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2018 Posts
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Meryl Spiegel

Meryl Spiegel is a photographic artist, whose work reflects her relentless curiosity whether she is on the street, in the fields or by the water. A former journalist for The New York Times with an MFA in Creative Writing, she now focuses primarily on her artwork, but is thrilled to share her thoughts here about how her creative life continues to evolve and expand.

“I picked up a camera years ago thinking it was the only way I could render humanity and its wonders,” she recalls. “Then three years ago, I began to draw and ultimately paint, not knowing I could.”

Also an educator, Meryl teaches photography as well as yoga, a passion that fuels her creativity off the mat. Regularly, she conducts photographic workshops at East End Arts. Last year the Center Moriches Library was awarded a grant from the NY State Council on the Arts to fund a Composition class conducted by Meryl and offered free to its patrons. This summer and fall, she will be conducting more classes at the library.

Meryl lives with her husband, Steven, and her hound dog, Copper, in East Quogue —where she raised her two daughters, Lauren, a Westhampton real estate agent, and Jaclyn, a financial analyst in Manhattan.

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