Illumination Wellbeing Center

03/16/2026

03/16/2026

03/15/2026

A quiet day. [Mary Alice], [Martha] - & [Catherine] to Bartholomew’s to play music with others of his pupils.

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, March 9, 1941

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Old Houses in Winter, 1929-41; watercolor on joined paper, 27 3/4 x 43 inches; Collection of the Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN

03/15/2026

This morning I arose early and snatched a hasty breakfast, in anticipation of our trip to Tom Richard’s, where we were going to visit a sugar-camp. I had never been to a real live sugar­camp, so I was awaiting this visit with eagerness. We had Set the time at seven, but Bill was late...As we walked along the frozen country road, everything seemed so bright and cheerful; frost covered fields and meadows - broad expanses only broken by fences occasional farm-houses and dark grey woods that loomed on every side - stretched away on both sides of the yellow frozen road. Bluebirds, the gay songsters of early March, fluttered here from fences and bushes, beautiful bits of bright blue singing their delightful “Chor-chor-chory! Chor-chor-chory!” with full throats. A Peter-bird would call occasionally and song-sparrows kept up an incessant melody, while at times crows would fly overhead, uttering their hoarse cry. Over all the sun sent his warm rays on the melting earth from a blue sky.

Charles Burchfield, Journals, March 11, 1911

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Telegraph Music, 1949; watercolor and ink on paper, 11 5/8 x 17 5/8 inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Charles Rand Penney, 1994

03/15/2026

The Chipko movement ( meaning “to hug” in Hindi), a non-violent women-led forest conservation movement in the 1970s in India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation, and where the word “tree huggers’ originated from.

03/14/2026

☘️ The dear little, sweet little shamrock of Ireland.

For generations, the three-leafed shamrock has stood as one of the most recognisable symbols of Ireland. In tradition, it is often linked to the story of St. Patrick, who is said to have used the small plant to explain the idea of the Holy Trinity.

Simple, modest, and growing freely across the Irish countryside, the shamrock became a quiet emblem of Irish identity - carried in memory, worn on St. Patrick’s Day, and recognised around the world.

Sometimes the smallest things come to represent the largest stories.



📸 Irish Roots