The Fine Line Between Carpe Diem and Who Gives A $#*! — A re:create 2013 Recap

Inevitably each year at re:create, a beautiful painting emerges.

This phenomenon has recurred for the past thirteen years.

Refreshment, encouragement, and diffusion of ideas always stand out as the primary colors of our gathering, but it’s the pattern that emerges and surprises us, that ties the composition together and provides what Aquinas, and later Joyce, calls claritas.

To wax philosophical for a moment, claritas is the quidditas of re:create.

And I suppose that’s what this post is all abo...