A Wedding and an Anniversary
June brings weddings and their reverberations in anniversaries. This year I participated in helping to plan and lead a lovely wedding for Sarah Osmer and Gabriel Vinas. Sarah we have known over many years through her parents, Rick and Sally. Gabriel, who once studied in Cape Town, has been with Sarah for some years now. [...]
Raising the Quilt Square
Over the past few years, in nearby Yancey and Mitchell counties, the Toe River Arts Council has made and installed over two hundred painted quilt blocks on barns, stores, and public buildings, creating a “Quilt Trail.” Our own Haywood County Arts Council has also launched a quilt trail program. Last year Sylvia began working with [...]
SweetheARTS Exhibition
The Haywood County Arts Council is hosting a delightful exhibition this month of pieces created by couples who engage in artistic work. Each couple has also prepared a one-page story about how they met, fell in love, and, to date, lived happily and artistically ever after. Hence the clever title. We will launch the Exhibition [...]
Flared Cherry Bowl
I recently completed this cherry bowl from a tree on our property. I made it for a good friend of many years in Atlanta. I wanted it to represent an opening up to the world and to the wider realm beyond us. It’s about 8 inches across and 5 inches high. The wall is generally [...]
« go back — keep looking »William J. Everett
In my teaching career I authored eight books and numerous articles in social ethics and religion. After over thirty years of academic work — in Germany, India, and South Africa as well as in the United States — I wanted to turn my hand to a poetically written novel to probe the issues of ecological and human reconciliation.
When I am not writing, I create furniture for worship settings. For more about my work, go to www.WisdomsTable.net, where you will also find galleries of artwork by my wife Sylvia, whose ancestors were the original inspiration for Red Clay, Blood River. READ MORE...
Red Clay Blood River
Red Clay, Blood River is a story told by Earth about two brothers from Germany and an enslaved South African woman whose lives bind together America’s “Trail of Tears” and South Africa’s simultaneous “Great Trek” of 1838.