Elegy for Nicholas Harper by Nicholas Wolfson

Elegy for Nicholas Harper by Nicholas Wolfson

THE LIBERATION OF THE EVERGLADES DRAGON (Ending Millions of Years of Stuck), by Nicholas Wolfson. Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30 inches, April 2021. In Memoriam NICHOLAS HARPER (a Subud brother who died peacefully this week in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 83). A week ago...
SICA-USA Awards Emmanuel Williams Grant for Crinolina

SICA-USA Awards Emmanuel Williams Grant for Crinolina

SICA-USA is proud to report that we have awarded Emmanuel Williams $300 for his young adult novel Crinolina. From the grant application: Synopsis: As a child Kati was sexually abused by her father. Now, at 16, she has a boyfriend, Timothy. They get on well, but when...
Connecting is the Thing (Lauren Woodward Stanley)

Connecting is the Thing (Lauren Woodward Stanley)

When we think of what makes life worth living, what makes life itself, we think of connection. We were all asked to suspend connection during our year (and counting) of pandemic, in the forms so familiar to us. Social gathering was replaced the world over by staying...
Patrick Morgan Memoir (River of Dreams)

Patrick Morgan Memoir (River of Dreams)

Last week we reported the news that Patrick Morgan had died. See: https://sica-usa.org/news/patrick-morgan-a-remembrance/ At the February 26, 2021 SICA-USA board meeting, we unanimously approved a motion to award Patrick $500 to help offset costs for his memoir, River...
Seven Artists, Seven Paths

Seven Artists, Seven Paths

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gallery Exhibition: Seven Artists, Seven Paths An interview with Sanderson Morgan (The image above is Sanderson Morgan’s photograph “Boiler Study No. 2,” 2019 from the exhibit) This article was published in the...
Patrick Morgan (A Remembrance)

Patrick Morgan (A Remembrance)

I became acquainted with Patrick Morgan when he made an application to SICA-USA for a grant for his memoir, written under a pen name and titled: River of Dreams: A Spiritual Memoir. He struggled with the grant application, but finished it and it was presented to the...
Subud Archives Update

Subud Archives Update

The Subud Archives Team, above: Howard Moneta, Daniela Moneta, Julie Ann Morrill Subud Archives Update (#4 in a series) By Daniela Moneta, WSA Archivist, USA This article appeared in the April 2021 issue of Subud Voice.   Welcome to the fourth installment of Archives...
Uvavnuk’s Song (Reynold Weissinger)

Uvavnuk’s Song (Reynold Weissinger)

I’ve read every book on the Inuit I can find, and my favorite author is Knud Rasmussen. He was born in Greenland and spent his childhood with the Inuit inhabitants, learning to speak like a native and absorbing their culture. After the turn of the century he...
Susannah’s Fund Drive Pitch

Susannah’s Fund Drive Pitch

Dear SICA-USA Blog Reader! I am asking… Would you donate to our/the SICA-USA Annual fund drive?  :  ) Would you give $100 to SICA-USA so we can grow-support Subud’s community of “social artists” & their projects? What is a “social...
The Boulder Massacre

The Boulder Massacre

By Roland Evans Another slaughter of innocents—this time in a Boulder supermarket where we’ve shopped many times. During the following week, my clients express their confused disbelief veiling the anger and anguish beneath. We struggled with the questions: Why does...