(She was the founder of the weaving department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.) The warm, contemporary guest rooms ... would write down ideas on the back of napkins. Blankets from Sackcloth + Ashes, ...

In the Old Testament, ashes were often paired with the wearing of sackcloth — an uncomfortable, scratchy fabric. Together, “sackcloth and ashes” represented several human conditions ...

During that time they did acts of penance, like extra praying and fasting, and lying “in sackcloth and ashes,” as an outward action expressing interior sorrow and repentance. The customary ...

They abstain from food and wear sackcloth and ashes as a sign of mourning and penance. They are liturgically literate and ritually right. They want to draw closer to God, and this is the way they ...

The emerald ash borer has nearly wiped out the black ash trees in Wisconsin. However, the Ho-Chunk Nation is preserving black ash tree seeds.

Sometimes the Lenten season comes knocking while we are still whirling in the revelry of Mardi Gras, before we see the need for sackcloth and ashes. Here, our Lenten observances are intended not ...

As part of this ritual, they were sprinkled with ashes, clothed in sackcloth, and required to stay apart from the community until their reconciliation on Maundy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter.

Artist/musician Juan Cisneros presents his own “Tethered Ashes” in Co-Lab’s outdoor space, a mystical concrete culvert among grassy patches and hanging lights. His art delves into the ...

The purpose of ashes dates back to early Roman practices, according to britannica.com. Serious sinners and penitents began a public penance on the first day of Lent. These people wore sackcloth ...

Abstract artist Amy Rottmann makes unique works of art for people to remember loved ones who have died. Mapped: The 42-Mile-Long 'Dune Express' Texas Conveyor Belt Winter Storm Hauls Snow ...

When pronouncing these judgments, Jesus makes reference to sackcloth and ashes as a form of penitence. As early as the ninth century the church started to use ashes as a public demonstration of ...