Of Things to Come de Myrtle Stedman

Of Things to Come: An Exploration of the Creative Mind

Myrtle Stedman

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2001

Readers are given vivid examples of how the Universal Mind turns imagery into reality, invited to ponder and explore this mechanism in their current lives, and to examine the potential for humanity's future evolution. The other two books in the Universal Mind Trilogy, all written in non-classical poetic verse, are "Of One Mind" and "The Way Things Are or Could Be." * * * * * Myrtle Stedman has been described as "both innocence and heirloom." Designated in 1985 as a "Living Treasure" in northern New Mexico, this award-winning artist, architect, and writer is the author of ten books, including "Artists in Adobe," "Adobe Architecture," "Adobe Remodeling and Fireplaces," "A House Not Made with Hands," "Of One Mind," "Ongoing Life," "Rural Architecture," "The Ups and Downs of Living Alone in Later Life," and "The Way Things Are or Could Be," all from Sunstone Press. Myrtle Stedman was a member of PEN New Mexico, a branch of PEN Center USA West of International PEN and believed that there is no end to what the mind can do with the eye and hand, in time and in spirit.

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Myrtle Stedman was known as an "Artist in Adobe," designing, building, and remodeling adobe homes under a contractor's license. She was also a well-known artist whose academic training started in 1927 when she was a student in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts school. Her English born husband, Wilfred Stedman, whose background was in architecture as well as in painting and illustrating was recognized as one of the most outstanding artists of the American Southwest. Adobe architecture in New Mexico was one of Wilfred's favorite topics of conversation and Myrtle was instilled with the love of adobes from the moment they were married. After his death in 1950, Myrtle went on to become one of the foremost authorities on adobe construction. Myrtle Stedman was a member of PEN New Mexico, a branch of PEN Center USA West of International PEN and believed that there is no end to what the mind can do with the eye and hand, in time and in spirit. She is also the author of Artists in Adobe, A House Not Made With Hands, Adobe Remodeling and Fireplaces, Of One Mind, Of Things to Come, Ongoing Life, Rural Architecture, The Ups and Downs of Living Alone in Later Life, and The Way Things Are or Could Be, all from Sunstone Press.