Brushstrokes
Last night I attended the Huntington's Member's Premier Spring event, Brushstrokes: Beyond the Gallery and featured lectures on the...
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Marta Wiggins
Jun 18, 20192 min read
Gossiping Crows--an Homage
On Sunday, as I walked through the Japanese Garden at Descanso, I heard several crows calling back and forth, what a racket. I looked up...
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Marta Wiggins
Jun 16, 20193 min read
My Father's Daughter
On Father's Day we honor fathers and the role they play in our lives. I was fortunate to have had a loving and kind father. That isn't...
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Marta Wiggins
Jun 12, 20192 min read
Aging with Grace
A rose is still a rose and still as fragrant and beautiful as it fades. There are people who panic at each milestone age, hate birthday...
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Marta Wiggins
Jun 11, 20191 min read
Fairies Among Us
This is a Wild Fairy Iris. The very title evokes a mischievous pixie dancing in the forest. I can almost see her, can you? As you...
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Marta Wiggins
Jun 10, 20191 min read
Finding Paradise
Birds of Paradise always evoke Hawaii in my mind. Of course they do, they are by their very name a symbol of a tropical paradise. I...
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Marta Wiggins
Jun 3, 20193 min read
On Love & Compassion
This weekend, my first friend from kindergarten posted something I thought was incredibly intolerant about not making Muslims in American...
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Marta Wiggins
May 31, 20191 min read
On Being Authentic
This photo is a combination of silk flowers and an authentic black Calla Lilly. The arrangement is pleasing, but at least for me, when I...
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Marta Wiggins
May 30, 20193 min read
A Vegas Tradition
I go to Vegas once or twice a year with a dear friend. We see a show, eat too much, shop and contribute to the continued health of the...
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Marta Wiggins
May 13, 20194 min read
Photos of home
Last month, I returned to Idabel for about 10 days to spend time with my mother. Our recent conversations left me feeling concerned...
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Marta Wiggins
Apr 5, 20192 min read
Unexpected Beauty
One of the reasons I love photography is that it sharpens awareness of my surroundings. I see rather than just observe. Here is an...
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Marta Wiggins
Apr 4, 20193 min read
A Dose of Patience
We have had an unusually wet and cold-ish winter in LA this year. A Saturday off last month, as I had my coffee deciding what to so, the...
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Marta Wiggins
Mar 26, 20195 min read
An Abundance of Fortunes
The years I spent in Japan walk along side me every day at the ready to prompt memories. I spent 7 years spanning a decade with about a...
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Marta Wiggins
Nov 16, 20181 min read
A Thanksgiving Feast
The 3rd Thursday of each month sees me starting the day with a Library Managers meeting and end it 13 hours later stacking chairs after...
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Marta Wiggins
May 6, 20183 min read
Profile: Anka Zhuravleva: Artist
When I lived in Hiroshima, I wrote both a day trip column Tripping Out as well as an interview style column called On the Couch with......
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Marta Wiggins
Jan 23, 20182 min read
Petals for Humanity
On a hot summer day in July, I decided to get out and embrace the weather by taking my camera for a walk at the Huntington. On this day,...
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Marta Wiggins
Jan 4, 20182 min read
Just Add Text...
This is a Huntington rose taken about a year and a half ago. My photo stream is filled with a multitude of roses and other flowers. I...
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Marta Wiggins
Dec 27, 20172 min read
Ideas that Changed the World
Words have a magical power that we rarely realize. They can heal, tear apart, bring together, build up or destroy. It is easy to forget...
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Marta Wiggins
Dec 26, 20174 min read
Literature as a Moral Compass
Books and the ideas within can transform a person and shape thoughts as well as transform others through the way a life is lived. What...
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Marta Wiggins
Dec 25, 20171 min read
Asanas in the Morning
Some photos just make me smile whenever I see them. A seal getting an early morning stretch in as fellow seals loll about. In the midst...
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