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SolefulLife

Lessons fromMesses

Telling the Story of Life

The Color of Apples

Creating Spacefor Imagination

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Lessons from Messes..................................................................... 2Are you interested, or committed? ............................................... 4Joanne Kluba: Telling the Story of Life ......................................... 6The Color of Apples...................................................................10Soleful Life.................................................................................12Creating Space for Imagination ..................................................18The Intersection of Art & Nature ............................................. 20Goods & Services...................................................................... 22

Splendid Magazine Volume 1, Number 2 Fall 2012

Reader responses to the premiere issue of Splendid magazine have been incredible. Insome ways, our interactions with readers, whoemailed, called and chatted with us in unexpectedpublic encounters, have been positively overwhelm-ing. We’re humbled, and are encouraged all themore that there is a place for a compassionate,creative, inclusive, community-minded publication.Our dreams are big for Splendid, but only areachievable with passionate supporters who also believe in “Celebrating the Good in Life.” We welcome your participation: contribute ideas, share personal stories and artwork, and interact with fellow Splendid readers online. We are reading comments on our website,www.MakeLifeSplendid.com, where you also can connect with the Splendid communityvia Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

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Contributing Writers: Marie A. CaseyMary KonroyMeghan MuellerJohn O’LearyAmy George Rush

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On the cover: On September 11, 2001, Joanne Kluba was in Europe looking for her path in life. The events ofthat day shaped her future. Now her handmade books tell the story of life. Photo by Adam Williams

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WHILE MAKING TACOS one evening several yearsago, I heard the pitter-patter of my son’s toddler toesscampering toward me, paired with a hearty, mischievousgiggle. I remember thinking, “I wonder what’s so funny…He’s been so quiet, playing all by himself.” A quiet toddler?

Playing by himself? For 30 minutes? I should haveknown better: rookie mistake.

I turned to greet mythen-16-month-oldand was shocked tosee a sticky, drippyand bronzed versionof him stumbling

toward me—one chubby

hand reaching outfor me, the other

white-knuckling anempty 16-ounce jar of

molasses that he had five-fingered from the pantry

while I had been cooking.I briskly scooped him up and

our equally wide eyes met each other—his outlined in molasses. I exclaimed,

“What did you DO?” and then burst outlaughing; he belly laughed in response. I put

him down and covered the ground beef. Eventhis rookie knew it would be a while before we ate.Hand in sticky hand, we followed his footprints

into the living room. While I had been busy browningthe beef, he had been busy browning—in molasses—thesofa, the loveseat, the coffee table, the media stand, theremote control, my cell phone, the floor, and the walls.And he browned himself, of course—making the most ofhis golden opportunity. Have you worked with molasseslately? It resembles motor oil in its viscosity and color.Luckily, it smells better—pungent, but better. He hadcreated a thorough mess.I was prepared to break out into a cold sweat. After

all, before kids, I belonged to the “clean car club” at ourlocal car wash. I found grime disturbing, disrespectful anddownright yucky. But in the time it took for my toddlerto paint our living room—and himself—in molasses, I warmed up to mess. I thought I’d be mad. Instead, I was giddy at the sight

of his reckless abandon. I thought I’d resent the clean-up.

Instead, I was impressed with the far reach of his work.And molasses is, after all, water soluble; no big deal. Theonly thing I was angry about, in hindsight—I didn’t pauseto take a photo or two. Just a few months ago, I found a great book for my

boys: “The Beautiful Oops" by Barney Saltzberg. My now-5-year-old son and his 3-year-old brother delight in the book’s lessons: “A smudge and a smear can makemagic appear;” “A little drip of paint lets your imaginationrun wild.” The author reframes messes and “mistakes”not as bad accidents or unfortunate events but as stuffthat happens along the way, as moments essential to theevolution of our ideas and of ourselves. Messes are oppor-tunities for creative expression, for delight and discovery,and for pleasure and celebration. Messes are real. They arehow we live. And they can be beautiful.Molasses-gate cleaned up nicely (with the help of about

10 wet dishrags), as did my son after a long bath. Nowadays,my boys deconstruct those same sofas to create forts,playgrounds, and caves. They help me bake, and we getflour everywhere. Atop the bed I used to make daily (withhospital corners!), I plop into a downy glob of wrinkled,rumpled bedding for naptime with my youngest son. While he snoozed last week, I studied his feet, which

are still so little. I wondered where those feet will go,what they will do. I hope they hike to the top of Mayanruins, kick a winning goal or two, and feel the warmth ofan aluminum canoe while floating down a pristine ruralstream. I imagine that they will sweat while he waits atthe front door of his first date’s parents’ house. I even hopethat one of them gets a splinter from a sea urchin off thecoast of a tiny town in northern Italy, and I hope an elderlylocal man advises, in broken English and pantomime,that he pee on his wound—inciting laughter, a very realanalgesic. Yes, I’d rather spend my time messing withthese beautiful ideas than cleaning up so-called messes. Admittedly, I still visit the “clean car club”—but only

about once a year. The employees cringe as they forcefullypeel away my boys’ car seats from the leather upholstery,forever sticky from the countless dripping juice boxes myboys inhale on the way home from our countless adventuresaround town. Over the crackling, they exclaim, “Haven’tbeen in for a while, huh?” Nope, sure haven’t. We’ve beenbusy. Making beautiful messes.

Amy George Rush is a freelance writer from St. Louis, Mo. She lives and works to tell stories, which she believes are thequintessential human experience, with great care and feeling.E-mail her at [email protected].

Heidi Drexler is a lifestyle photographer specializing in on-location, natural light portraits. www.heididrexlerphotography.com

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?Are you interested,

or committedBY J O H N O’LE A RY


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Commitment frees us to hurdle over momentary struggles, endure unbearablechallenges, celebrate unexpected joys, and remain focused on the possibility of tomorrow.

Real commitment is seen in great teachers, athletes, and leaders. I’ve seen no finer example in all my travels and meetings, though, than the one set at home by my Momand Dad. They recently celebrated their 45th year together.

Four and a half decades ago they imagined what their life might look like together.Their marriage has gone exactly like they planned. They enjoy a strong relationship, six

healthy kids, 14 grandbabies, loving friends, a robust faith,early retirement—basically, the good life!

Well, with a few deviations from the plan. Forty-five years have brought not only the joys mentioned

above, but incredible struggles to Mom and Dad. In additionto the many challenges that all families deal with (disappoint-ments in relationships, frustrations professionally, challengeswith children, station wagons that break down on vacations,etc), they also have survived significant adversity.

They’ve had two house fires (yes, two fires!); one oftheir children severely burned, and hospitalized in criticalcondition for months and physically scarred forever; and,actually, very real challenges with all their children; plus,Mom’s fibromyalgia and the pain it causes her joints andmuscles; and 20 years of Dad’s Parkinson’s disease, whichhas led to incredible stress financially, mentally and physically.And yet, through 45 years of ups and downs, they remain

committed to—and in love with—one another. The definition of commitment is the act of pledging and engaging oneself in a promise

or a pledge. There is a massive gulf between commitment and interest. When we are interestedwe act because the circumstances permit and we get something out of it. When we arecommitted we accept no excuses, point no fingers, and submit to no failure, because wechose to invest something in it.

When the tides of change and challenge come (and they WILL!), remember that life isnot what happens to you, but ultimately and always dependent upon how you respond tothose challenges.

Commit today! Your life, your relationships, your work and your legacy demand it!

“There’s a difference

between interest and

commitment. When you’re

interested in doing something,

you do it only when

circumstances permit.

When you’re committed to

something, you accept

no excuses, only results.”

John O’Leary is a speaker, writer, father and husband. He inspires individuals and organiza-tions to take back their lives, ignite their possibilities and change their worlds. Learn more atwww.RisingAbove.com

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On September 11, 2001, Joanne Kluba was visiting friendsin a small town in France. That day, they drove to the GuggenheimMuseum in Bilbao, Spain, passing through Guernica, the townimmortalized by Picasso for suffering a brutal air attack during

the Spanish Civil War. As they drove home, they became aware thatsomething really big had happened in the United States. They soon

learned how big. Kluba returned to St. Louis as soon as she could get a flight. A series of events had led

her to France, and in the aftermath of 9/11, she did some soul searching and decided tostart a business: Paper Birds. “It’s a poetic notion,” she says. “Because I like to write, I’dwrite something down on a scrap of paper. I called those scraps my paper birds.” At best,it was a challenging time to start a business.

But Kluba has defied the odds for new businesses. Despite the rocky economy, PaperBirds is alive and well 11 years later.

A visit to her studio tells the story. It’s a large open space with lots of flat surfaces.Bookbinding tools are everywhere: a giant paper cutter; a paper press; a wall of tools.Shelves are filled with rolls of paper and book cloth. And everywhere are Joanne’s books.

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Paper Birds is about creating books by hand: small-run editions, biographies, art books for a wide variety of clients. Recently Kluba created a book for a woman to send to her husband, who is currentlyserving in Afghanistan. The subject: their five-year-old son’s paintings.She is helping another client recreate a scrapbook her mother-in-lawkept of their long-ago years in Europe. Each project is unique. Kluba alsodoes preservation work for libraries and builds clamshell boxes to houseand protect books. She teaches a variety of book arts classes, as well.

In between commissions, she creates the art books that enrich hersoul. Her inspiration comes from nature, travel—even fortunes fromfortune cookies. Recently she made a book using found images of twosisters who taught dance in St. Louis in the past century. She writes poetry, as well, with haiku being her favorite form.

One current project is her indigo book. While many people use theJapanese shibori process to tie-dye fabric with indigo, Kluba used paper.She was inspired by a show at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (sheis a docent there), where she saw a 15th century book with gold writingon indigo-dyed paper. She tried gold lettering on her book, but preferredwhite ink. She searched for a poem to scribe onto the pages, and in theend decided to write her own. It begins with a string of pearls breakingand continues on a celestial journey, so “it all ties in to the stars,” says

Kluba. The deep, dark-blue pages dance with the white resist marks, evoking the heavens,as the white letters draw the reader into Joanne’s world.


Another book was inspired by a science text she found from the ’50s. Kluba scribedher book with the words that had been underlined in the old book and added images toillustrate the words. True to her poetic nature, she created the book while listening to Science Friday on National Public Radio.

Kluba’s work is internationally known. She has had numerous gallery shows, her workappears in a variety of books, and she has been recognized many times over the years. Yetshe brushes off words of praise. For her, it is about bringing what’s inside—the poetry, thebeauty, the sadness, the memory—to life in the form of a book. “I am motivated,” she says,“to tell the story of life.”

Suzy Farren is vice president of Corporate Communications at SSM Health Care. She is theauthor of several books, including A Call to Care, The Women Who Built Catholic HealthCare in America, and she co-produced the accompanying Emmy Award-winning documentary.

See more of Adam Williams’photos of Joanne and her

work at www.makelifesplendid.com


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WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, each year my grandparents took us on an autumnfamily outing to pick apples at a local orchard. We would pile on top of a wagon that wouldtake us into the orchard. After gathering baskets full of apples—those that we didn’t eat—we would return to the general store, where we would purchase our apples and load upthe car with our harvest.

Apple picking is a way for families to spend time together when temperatures drop andleaves begin to turn brilliant shades of red and orange. People who love picking apples cantell you their favorite part of the experience, whether it’s riding the wagon or envisioning thepies and crisps that will emerge from the oven in due time, after the apples are brought home.

There are so many reasons to love apple picking, but for me, it’s the experience itself.In our hectic, overscheduled world, picking apples allows us to step back for a short timeand really see the world around us. Biting into an apple we have picked with our own handscelebrates our connection to one another and to the earth.

In our fast-paced world, we often miss the beauty that surrounds us, focusing on howto get from point A to point B instead of enjoying the process of getting there. My dad recently told me a story about a little boy and an apple. This little boy’s teacher asked her

students what colors apples were, and the little boy raised his hand and said, “They’rewhite.” The teacher explained that apples were many colors, green and red and yellow,

but she had not seen a white one before. The little boy replied, “Look inside.” Looking inside—and appreciating the moment—can be very difficult

when we’re trying to accomplish a million tasks in a day. Out of necessity,we take shortcuts. Family time is often reduced to a quick meal before soccer

practice, and being connected can consist of social media updates. It is certainlydifficult to pay attention to the beauty that surrounds us when we can barely

catch our breath.But what if we followed the little boy’s advice? What if instead of checking an

email or running an errand, we paused and noticed that the trees really are a glorious site to behold and the wind is just a bit chillier than normal?

What if we bit into an apple and really tasted its sweetness—or tartness?What if we experienced life in all its deliciousness? As autumn enfoldsus in its constantly changing beauty, it offers an invitation. We can pause,and breathe and look around. We can take small steps to enjoy the journey

instead of constantly seeking the destination. And we can start by headingout to the orchard to pick some apples.

ofBy Meghan Mueller

Meghan Mueller is ProgramManager-Revenue Cycle atBJC Healthcare’s Center forLifelong Learning. She is anavid runner, reader, andwriter who is constantlystriving to be her most authentic self, and throughher writing help others dothe same. Her other musingscan be found on her blog:dwellinthis.blogspot.com.

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GUISEPPE (JOE) CAMPIERI’S SHOE REPAIR SHOP is locked in a timewarp. It looks exactly the same as when he opened it 30 years ago inthe city’s Italian neighborhood known as The Hill.

Fluorescent lamps still hang from the ceiling illuminating his narrowwork area. Paneling on the walls is missing in spaces. The floor isscuffed. And the machinery is ancient. “Over 100 years old,”Campieri observes. And everywhere, there are shoes.

They are crammed on shelves, wedged on windows, and stuffed inplastic bags that hang on wooden pegs. They line the floors. A visit to this shop is a trip to another era.

But for Campieri, the time spent in his small, one-room shop “is the best part of the day.” And the 80-year-old spends a lot of timethere. He works there seven days a week after he delivers bread for a local bakery. “It passesthe time,” Campieri explains.

Shoemaking is a craft he began learning when he was 9 years old in Ailia on the island ofSicily. It is a skill he perfected over decades.

“Nobody better,” Campieri smiles broadly. Although he has lived in St. Louis for 46 yearsand raised a family with his wife, Tina, Campieri has never mastered the language.

He mixes English with Italian. When Campieri doesn’t understand a question, he headsnext door to Ralph’s Continental Hair Salon, where neighbor and fellow Sicilian, Ralph

Guiseppe (Joe) Campieri, 80,works seven days a week inhis shoe repair shop on TheHill in St. Louis.

Mondello, helps with translation. There’s also room to sit in the barbershop,and that’s where Campieri speaks about his life, his trade and his business.

Their shoulders touching, the two gray-haired men lean forward in theirchairs, one limited in his English, both hard of hearing.

Learning a trade was his father’s suggestion—it would allow Campieri tohave more control over his future—but the decision was his own, he explains.

“I would come home from school, change out my uniform and go to theshop,” Campieri remembers of his apprenticeship, which began when he wasin grade school during World War II.

“I would do whatever the boss told me to do.” Initially he polished shoes ordelivered them. Sometimes he would just watch the old cobbler and learn.Thirteen children worked at the shop and Campieri was “the littlest.”

During the Christmas break of his first year as an apprentice, he quit school. “I said forgetabout that,” he laughs, tossing his hands in the air.

Talking with Campieri is not only listening to his words, it’s watching his expressionsand gestures. He shrugs his shoulders a lot and waves his hand if something is just OK.Occasionally, he brings his forefinger and thumb together to his mouth, and makes asmacking sound of approval.

It is obvious that cobbling shoes gives him pleasure.By the time he was 17, he knew how to make leather shoes by hand and repair them

using a variety of tools. With his apprenticeship over, he took over the business for hisaging boss. At the age of 34, married with two children, he headed to the United States tojoin his in-laws who already lived in St. Louis.

“Better opportunity,” he said.Campieri worked at a local shoe manufacturing plant and an air-conditioning company

before he opened his first shoe repair business in the U.S.

Campieri and his barber shopneighbor, Ralph Mondello,have been friends for decades.

Tools and materials, such asCampieri’s well-glazed, metalglue container and sandingmachine, show the wear of work.


“Back then everything over there (in Italy) was hand made. Here, everything is repair.” As a shoemaker in Italy, young Campieri would work sitting at a table. Today, the

octogenarian stands all day, grinding or sanding down shoes on old machines, and thenpolishing them to perfection.

He resoles shoes and replaces worn heels on men’s dress shoes, pumps, flats, cowboyand work boots. Some he has repaired eight to 10 times, extending their lives by years— a concept that is all but lost in today’s world. He also salvages and stitches purses, beltsand other leather goods.

Forget about claim tickets. Campieri doesn’t issue them unless asked, keeping that information in his head.

And what does he like doing most? “Everything.” What does he like doing least?“I’m a professional. It’s my trade.” He repairs what needs to be fixed and he won’t retire“until I close my eyes.” He tilts his head upward to the heavens, palms outreached.

Until then, the senior shoe repairman will happily return to his shop each day and gohome every night to his wife and 95-year-old mother-in-law who lives with them.

Mary Konroy is a St. Louis-based public relations professional and freelance writer who lovespeople and loves to write about them. She specializes in health care marketing communications.

Adam Williams is an editor and photographer for Splendid magazine. You can contact himat [email protected].

See more of Adam Williams’ “soleful” photos at www.makelifesplendid.com

EDITOR’S NOTE:As we prepared Splendid to goto press, we learned Joe Campierirecently suffered a heart attack.The Campieri family since hasreturned customers’ shoes andclosed the shop.

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FEEDING THE SPIRIT OF IMAGINATION comes easily for most children, unencum-bered by the hard boundaries of “reality.” Yet imagination grows roots in reality, fed by anexpanded vision of the possible.

When a young mother asked Albert Einstein what to read to her son so that he mightgrow into a brilliant thinker, he advised, “Fairy tales.” She asked him what to read to herson after the fairy tales, and Einstein replied, “More fairy tales.” An ability to transcend

what we believe we know to imagine beyond, whether abstract or concretein nature, can be nurtured by breaking free of limiting thoughts, exploringmysteries and playing with the possible.

If imagination is combined with “thinking of others,” it can inspire evengreater skills of perception. When Mary Amelia Ingalls was struck blind atage 14 by a stroke caused by scarlet fever or meningitis, her inseparable sister,Laura Ingalls Wilder, became her eyes to the world. Laura richly describedaloud what Mary was missing so that her sister could “see” through Laura’seyes. Those descriptions were later recounted in Laura’s Little House on thePrairie series of books.

Creating space for imagination today requires a bit of extra effort tocounter the overwhelming stimulation of a culture that offers instant answers via Google, features explicit movies with little subtlety for viewer

interpretation and makes available constant news feeds. Space to feed imagination can be created by sitting quietly and listening; playing or

making music (with voice or instruments); practicing illogic; enjoying the company ofchildren and following along, letting them lead; playing dress-up; drawing, painting, acting,and dancing (even if you believe you have no talent); preparing and eating new foodswith your hands; rearranging work and living space; learning a new language; practicingrituals with reverence or creating new everyday or periodic rituals; traveling; hiking; anddeliberately getting lost to find your way again.

Noticing the blooming of imagination in yourself and others holds its own delight, andcelebrating it encourages more adventures of perception. Creating space for imaginationhelps us taste life in new ways and create well-being for ourselves and others.

Marie A. Casey is president of Casey Communications, Inc., an integrated marketing commu-nications company in Clayton, Mo., intent on helping clients “discover and tell their storiesso strategically that their businesses grow, they attract great people and they enhance theirreputations.” www.caseycomm.com

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An expanded vision of possi-bilities was practiced early bythe author (seated, second fromleft) and several siblings throughplay that included backyardtheatrical productions wearingcostumes sewn by their mother.

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A walk through the wooded area, most of which was bequeathed in 1968 by Matilda Laumeier on behalf of herlate husband, Henry, inspires personal reflection with recurring pauses to consider the artists’ works, most ofwhich are created from metal, wood or stone.

Amid the woods and fields rest sculptures such as Donald Lipski’s “Ball? Ball! Wall? Wall!” (opposite page)and Benton Fletcher’s “Donut No. 3” (right), along withdozens more works of art by contemporary artists.

Entrance to Laumeier is free. For more information, visit www.laumeiersculpturepark.org.

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