Segullah's Blog, page 35

Talking “Why” & Sitting in Paradoxes: An Interview with Speaker & Author, Ganel-Lyn Condie

At Segullah, we pride ourselves on highlighting women relevant to Mormon letters. This quarter’s featured woman, Ganel-Lyn Condie, writes in a genre rarely featured in literary magazines, and yet, her work adds to the discourse in the Church today. As a best-selling, self-help writer and public speaker of “real” topics, Ganel-Lyn impacts discussion surrounding contemporary...

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A Visitation with Crystal Despain

Segullah’s journal has the pleasure to highlight the works of one of our 2019 Visual Art Contest winners, Crystal Despain. Crystal’s vibrant and shimmering painting “Visitation” stunned us with its luminosity, implied action and technical skill. Here’s our conversation with Crystal about being an artist and a Segullah sister. Segullah: Welcome, Crystal! It’s an honor...

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Crystal Despain – Artist’s Statement

Crystal Despain reaches into a canvas with the intention of drawing out life. Her painting process is all about “feeling around the edges of her subjects” until what she is searching for reveals itself. She works to capture a “life spark” through a painting mindset that on the one hand holds firmly to technical performance,...

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Three Poems

“Mary and Martha Comment in Sunday School” by Marianne Hales Harding “When I Begin to Bend” by Jacquelyn Healy “Sunday School” by Hanna Thayer Brown   Mary and Martha Comment in Sunday School   Women of a certain age know which one they are from countless Relief Society class discussion misinterpretations of four verses known...

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Best

I quit ballet when I was thirteen after ten years of trying to be the best dancer my teachers had ever seen. When I was three my parents signed me up for dance classes in Miss Jodi’s basement studio. There, I wiggled my tiny rear end to Disney songs. When I was seven I was...

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Building My Empty Nest Support Team

  At the start of the summer, I knew that all of my children would launch eight days apart. True, I only have two children, but when they both leave home just days apart, that made for a busy summer. What I didn’t realize was that the emotional side of their launch would pack a...

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Book Review: Bridges: Ministering to Those Who Question

I grew up in a little Italian neighbourhood in New York. When I was in primary school, every Friday was “pizza day” at school. In addition to standard cafeteria fare and milk for purchase, there was pizza. Italian neighbourhood pizza. Square slices of thick bread slathered with the most decadent tomato-based sauce, and topped with...

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Drenched…with Joy?

Yesterday it snowed for the first time this winter season. Yep. We go from summer to winter without a whole lot in between. Thankfully, the snow melted when it was 6 or so inches from the ground so nothing stuck. It’s just a matter of time. We live at 8300 ft. adjacent to the Uintah...

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Rising and Falling

You shouldn’t have to be dating when you’re 39. I know this because when I was 13 I wrote myself a letter that I recently unearthed: it mapped out, with some detail, how I would be married at 22 and have three children and a dog. I kind of wanted to write back to myself,...

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On the Corner of Busy and City

I’ve read a few mini-memoirs lately and I think they’re charming. I’ve felt underwhelmed and over-pressured to write unifying pieces (how long is a piece?) that threads a nice theme together (not too on the nose, mind you) with some pithy events that are both unassuming and profound. Suffice it to say, nothing has been...

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