tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83857845151340627292024-03-21T23:02:41.218-07:00Spirit StitchHands on creative and spiritual work - even if it means ripping out several rows of stitches.Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-82255935541538061772022-09-30T09:35:00.003-07:002024-01-28T11:16:11.177-08:00Dessert Outdoors<p> </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx0RtvEFi4sET59kQ_3-YdDRaMZMTAaLfLnTbvJyLWXF7gOxtVAhpexitMM0c7frasYY8uGzwyHLVHq3LWh5LFD0vUEx3Uu6NaNLKyNQN2kmyXvaLHYBEgCxr8yVrXDwdgZ9r_yOgGSFQIyjXh6LBBX0MmrwwJZM8PuNMv2_BnTYr4ICYayv3lc-at/s4648/high-view-churros-cup-with-melted-chocolate.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3242" data-original-width="4648" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx0RtvEFi4sET59kQ_3-YdDRaMZMTAaLfLnTbvJyLWXF7gOxtVAhpexitMM0c7frasYY8uGzwyHLVHq3LWh5LFD0vUEx3Uu6NaNLKyNQN2kmyXvaLHYBEgCxr8yVrXDwdgZ9r_yOgGSFQIyjXh6LBBX0MmrwwJZM8PuNMv2_BnTYr4ICYayv3lc-at/w297-h207/high-view-churros-cup-with-melted-chocolate.jpg" width="297" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image by <a href="https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/high-<br />view-churros-cup-with-melted-chocolate_6274827.htm">Freepik</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>The people who give you their food give you <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>their heart. ~ <i>Cesar Chavez</i><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>Laughter is brightest in the place where food is <span> </span><span> </span>good ~ <i>Irish Proverb</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>infinitely better that the same meal indoors <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>~ <i>Unknown</i></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The e-mail to my Saturday hiking club announced that I was a trail taste tester for <a href="https://www.instagram.com/outdooreats365/" target="_blank">Outdoor Eats</a>. I invited them to join me in tasting my first taste test. My e-mail included "post hiking treat - think churro" and "a possible dessert for my long walk next year." </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>My best friend, M asks, "Will it be like the churros we had in Madrid? Crunchy, cinnamon warm dough, and dipped in thick chocolate?" </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>"No," I typed back adding, "Who carries a deep fryer on a thru hike or eggs and heavy cream to make a mousse?"</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>"Then I don't think it is a good name," she wrote.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>"Think churro inspired. The recipe is called a churro pie."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> "Hmmm....</span>đ„đ„đ„â"</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>~~~</b></span></p><p><span> </span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmHuRsykRIu1wYZEdUu9-IU2p-lOQcjqVbdmCIU2mYYMHRBzlMA_XEWXWnbZAGmV1KmzyT0yFH9rXxzCzX4InjJVPoiVGvUtIQh2L0cR0KQh1ncG2JvNDv9sh50UfEmnmS10YtwDuCW5bH_W5BHYdyBtr4CW8SiBaeKngoS2bzhd82092X4V1PcGuO/s2048/three%20creeks%201.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmHuRsykRIu1wYZEdUu9-IU2p-lOQcjqVbdmCIU2mYYMHRBzlMA_XEWXWnbZAGmV1KmzyT0yFH9rXxzCzX4InjJVPoiVGvUtIQh2L0cR0KQh1ncG2JvNDv9sh50UfEmnmS10YtwDuCW5bH_W5BHYdyBtr4CW8SiBaeKngoS2bzhd82092X4V1PcGuO/w290-h218/three%20creeks%201.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Three Creek Metro Park, <br />Columbus, Ohio by BEMS</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span><span style="font-size: medium;">I've been trekking with my hiking club almost every Saturday. Club membership is relatively simple: 1) you like hiking and; 2) you are friends or have a connection to M (my best friend). At the beginning of COVID, we wore masks and socially distanced by walking single file, an arm length away. We still tried to maintain our connection. Conversations consisted of yelling to the head of the line: "my son hates classes on-line" or "my daughters are teleworking at my home until COVID is over." When M's mother died we could only hold her hand wearing our knitted gloves. C</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">OVID made us do friendship and hiking differently. I think we became better people on these hikes together. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> COVID made us change our three trail hiking routine. We became explorers of </span>all 23 trailed Metro Parks. Since then we've continued to </span>traverse clockwise around Columbus several times. We learned that our city's park system is home to over 230 miles of trails showcasing central Ohio wet lands, prairies, streams and woodlands. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> Last week the club chose </span>Three Creeks Park to hike. The park is named for the three way confluence of the Big Walnut, Alum and Blacklick Creeks. These waters then flow into the Scioto River, then the Ohio and will eventually end up in the Gulf of Mexico. Three Creeks is one of several parks located in the southwestern corner of Franklin county. Most of the trails here are paved for multi-use, dog friendly, and ADA accessible allowing everyone to enjoy the outdoors.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Saturday morning, the trail was moderately crowded. The Army Reservist group just finished up their run as I got out of my car. The men, drenched in sweat, were dressed in full camos. Looking at them made me hot and I hadn't even started my hike yet. Club members joined me and there were other hiking groups starting like us. We were getting our miles in before the Buckeyes played later that afternoon. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKTN6JODfelGVCyEu3BcglDsT4VLCOVbLTzqe3e55MvNWfMpjr47cPaLIPtwW2RzGaETVJ1tPT0goxX5oe88UMTmI6B3g3gJSFSgdzkzFdOhSEEwm166JZoQwl_lEbVq895t-i-HEQLNvPhPQvWtgIyagLid-ftCnWCuQuxUl5gdNd1mzWXzDk7fRV/s2048/three%20creeks%202.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKTN6JODfelGVCyEu3BcglDsT4VLCOVbLTzqe3e55MvNWfMpjr47cPaLIPtwW2RzGaETVJ1tPT0goxX5oe88UMTmI6B3g3gJSFSgdzkzFdOhSEEwm166JZoQwl_lEbVq895t-i-HEQLNvPhPQvWtgIyagLid-ftCnWCuQuxUl5gdNd1mzWXzDk7fRV/s320/three%20creeks%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Three Creeks Metro Park<br />Columbus, Ohio by BEM</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /> </span>We chose the trail loop that led along one of the creeks and circled around two fishing ponds home to Canadian geese. The loop is forested with giant sycamores, maples and oaks and a meadow filled with yellow plumes of goldenrod, purple asters, and exploding white puffs from the milkweed. We gave a wide berth to all flowers, because the honeybees and yellow jackets were out in force, loading up on nectar for the long winter months. I remember the crows who followed us along the path. They squawked at us as we passed perched high up in the trees. They never let us get too far ahead of them before taking flight. I watch them hold out their wings and gliding on a jet stream before landing ghostly sycamore trees several yards ahead of us. </span> </span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>~~~</b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>MARKET BREAKFAST </b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">OAXACA, MEXICO</span></b></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;">by Julie Lariso</span></i></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Steaming cup of champurrado,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">panecitos, cinnamon churros---</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>mmm, mmm!</i> Delicioso!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Lovebirds chirp: <i>Pio! Pio!</i></span></p><p>Larios, Julie. and Julie Paschkis (Illustrations) "Market Breakfast." <i><a href="www.goodreads.com/book/show/54304190-delicious?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=vO0HfbDibO&rank=3 " target="_blank">Delicious! Poems Celebrating Street Food Around the World</a></i>, Beach Lane Books. 2021. www.goodreads.com/book/show/54304190-delicious?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=vO0HfbDibO&rank=3 </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>~~~</b></p><p><span><span><b> <span style="font-size: medium;">Churro Pie Recipe Taste Test</span></b></span></span></p><p><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Dear Chef: </i></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I can dive into the science of eating outdoors: vitamin D, increases endorphins, reduces stress... (you probably already know this). Somehow eating outside things just taste better. My hiking club was excited for the opportunity to be part of a taste test. This was the first time we had an after hike treat. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> Oh! I need to mention my h</span></span><span style="font-size: large;">iking friends are foodies. Their palettes have been shaped by the Columbus' food scene. I'm not sorry for busting the fallacies out there claiming that most of our restaurants serve-up Midwestern meatloaf, mash potatoes and gravy or there is a Wendy's hamburger shop at every corner. It is the opposite; Columbus has a diverse selection of foods. My city is blessed with international transplants who are sharing their recipes. Plus there is an assortment of chefs that are experimenting by blending their traditions...Mexican with Chinese. My hiking friends love a wide assortment of foods, spice blends. I wasn't surprised to their reaction to the taste test by identifying ways to improve it.</span></p><p><span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaZbQrybNJ-VqXV0ynR77K9Uwv921GXYdyMNDO8bZKhpQAH_Liy72eeLTqYZRuEYPeSShXWzS20t3DT06G_qI5hinI65eBDcXla1bHryfWfHazZMm1Tw1ywt96Ocm9KGDx1xBCLZVVUXheqjQ76z46xyQymLWn3KOIA0rqbnANL_qMzcTlnB5QXnTq/s2048/churro%20pie%20pre%20trail.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1955" data-original-width="2048" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaZbQrybNJ-VqXV0ynR77K9Uwv921GXYdyMNDO8bZKhpQAH_Liy72eeLTqYZRuEYPeSShXWzS20t3DT06G_qI5hinI65eBDcXla1bHryfWfHazZMm1Tw1ywt96Ocm9KGDx1xBCLZVVUXheqjQ76z46xyQymLWn3KOIA0rqbnANL_qMzcTlnB5QXnTq/w161-h153/churro%20pie%20pre%20trail.jpg" width="161" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Pre-trail pack-up by BEMS</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span><br /> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> Your recipe for Churro Pie took only three minutes to prepare: dump pudding spice mix into bowl, stir in the water, crunch the cereal and graham crackers (note: carrying these items in my backpack helped start the crunching process), and serve it up. I want to stress the process was sped up by having the ingrediencies prepared before the hike. All you had to do was dump, add water and stir. This pre-hike prep also cut down on carrying extra weight in my backpack (weight coming from all the food packaging). When I weighed </span><span style="font-size: large;">the ingredients before packing it up, it came in at 5.8 oz. It sounds like a lot, but keep in mind, the pudding package states it serves 4 people (1.45 oz/person). </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYSQyrQci1hXOtFuVc7PwuXJYrlRUIsDcs5ht3_vlQhfYOdbeqQc58x-ViNz-8tr1hiLQcl8W2OS0jOIivIeGFUGzlK43kCiZa2XKLCxp28r88EBmY8h30sbJUVFPXFA1uc9mc1u417ILLvjFAtbuAKvvErxoa9CEwDVJzTWxgS6abV1YRA_R6bPLn/s2048/churro%20pie.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1944" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYSQyrQci1hXOtFuVc7PwuXJYrlRUIsDcs5ht3_vlQhfYOdbeqQc58x-ViNz-8tr1hiLQcl8W2OS0jOIivIeGFUGzlK43kCiZa2XKLCxp28r88EBmY8h30sbJUVFPXFA1uc9mc1u417ILLvjFAtbuAKvvErxoa9CEwDVJzTWxgS6abV1YRA_R6bPLn/w163-h172/churro%20pie.jpg" width="163" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Churro Pie by BEMS</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Taste test 1 comments:</b> "Explosion of cinnamon." "It needs something to round out the cinnamon - chocolate?" "Maybe adding the milk will help." "It is too sweet for my taste." "A no-bake churro pie reimagined for the trail." "Cutting weight - maybe only use the cereal and don't break it up so much. I like the crunch."</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I have to agree. The cinnamon was overpowering. From a nutritional standpoint, I look for calcium food sources on the trail - it helps with my leg cramps. Adding the milk to the pudding would provide me with with an additional source calcium versus popping a supplemental pill. The milk can also add a fat source and protein too - needed in the winter months. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>I made the recipe again following the suggestions of m</span><span style="font-size: large;">y hiking friends. The second time, I added 1/4 cup of dried milk to the pudding mixture. I kept the water amount the same. I also only used the cereal. And for M, I had a small container to drizzle chocolate syrup on the mixture.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Taste test 2: comments:</b> "The milk tones down and rounds off the spices. It demonstrates what Samin Nosrat and Wendy MacNaughton said...fat enhances the flavors." "The drizzle of chocolate is a nice touch - gourmet on the trail." "I like this better, It isn't so sweet." "You have the crunch from the cereal and the smoothness from the pudding...really tastes good. I like it much better this way."</span></p><p><span><span style="font-size: medium;"> I intend on using my revisions to the recipe on backpacking hikes. I also plan on bringing the extra cereal as a "snack" to be paired with nuts and dried fruit and this dessert. </span><br /></span></p><p><span><span> </span><br /></span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span> </span><br /></p><p><br /></p>Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-78316373318909220962022-03-20T19:08:00.013-07:002022-03-21T04:38:29.185-07:00Practicing your way back into creativity<br /><br /><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.joslyn.org/post/sections/56/Files/cassatt_mary(2).jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="586" height="320" src="https://www.joslyn.org/post/sections/56/Files/cassatt_mary(2).jpg" width="234" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cassett, Mary (1878-79). <br /><a href="https://www.joslyn.org/collections-and-exhibitions/permanent-collections/american/mary-cassatt-woman-reading/">Woman Reading</a>. <br />Joslyn Art Museum. Omaha, Nebraska</span>.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">â</span>Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.â<br />~ Ashley Ormon<br /><br />âPractice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.â ~ Ann Voskamp, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/13462590">One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are</a><br /><br />âDo it again.<br />Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it again.<br />Because again is practice, and practice is improvement, and improvement only leads to perfection.â<br />~ Richelle E. Goodrich, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/27140487">Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year</a></span></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This last two years have been hard. Hard in a way, I have not been unable to write and paint in a way that my heart, soul and hand are in concert together. The world has made me exhausted: COVID, political unrest, public exposure of racism, isolation, and now another war. I am turning back to my blog hoping it has the electricity to to jump start my creativity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maybe it is spring and the time of awakening. Maybe it is the eve of Ares, the beginning of the zodiac. The time of not sitting back but getting off your bum. If this past blah I've been infected with were a shell, I want to break out of it. I want to sing along with the spring peepers and not let anyone slow me down. I want to touch the new buds on the American Beech trees that will shed off last year's leaves. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I want to take a step forward, fresh with new energy that is coming my heart. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">~~~</span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br />This Is Just To Say</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://poets.org/poet/william-carlos-williams">William Carlos Williams</a> - 1883-1963<br /><br />I have eaten<br />the plums<br />that were in<br />the icebox<br /><br />and which<br />you were probably<br />saving<br />for breakfast<br /><br />Forgive me<br />they were delicious<br />so sweet<br />and so cold</span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">~~~</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The big question is: what habits can I re-establish and put into place to light the spark? What can I do differently this coming year?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have been thinking a lot about these two questions. One idea is to have a sabbatical. I have been working in my field for over 30+ years. COVID has shown me that I need a beak. My work life has changed so dramatically and up to this point I keep telling myself go with the flow. But this idea is sucking my joy away. I have to ask myself why am I staying. I'm not ready to retire, yet I need time to think about what I want to do next. There are other opportunities out there for me. I need a break to discover these. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Julia Cameron writes in her creativity recovery manual, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615570.The_Artist_s_Way">The Artist Way</a> a recipe: 1) handwriting 3 journal pages, 2) walking and 3) artist visits. I envision my sabbatical to include these elements. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">More to come..... </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p></div>Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-26406148235527501412019-07-21T19:00:00.001-07:002019-07-21T19:00:55.454-07:00Woman with Flowers in Her Hair<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjnluZl9p3_iycCzKoXHWkgtmZHsQpDHI-lJ-Zon8RsqZeqhe6xLMv0Suf1rwMvP4W2aai2WoCC22G1x1VilUXyj8u8K1niR81ZydNt2bZpfNxLmw7XDFEaLdn5IKe9ZVw9N2zIjDOzDQ/s1600/Woman+with+Flowers+in+her+Hair+Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="714" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjnluZl9p3_iycCzKoXHWkgtmZHsQpDHI-lJ-Zon8RsqZeqhe6xLMv0Suf1rwMvP4W2aai2WoCC22G1x1VilUXyj8u8K1niR81ZydNt2bZpfNxLmw7XDFEaLdn5IKe9ZVw9N2zIjDOzDQ/s320/Woman+with+Flowers+in+her+Hair+Final.jpg" width="238" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Woman with the Flowers in Her Hair by<br />Homelight 2019</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Symbolism</b><br /><br />The unconscious mind works in symbols, whereas the conscious mind doesnât need to code things into symbols. Our conscious minds communicate through concertizing abstract ideas into words. Our words, at best, serve as a crude estimation of the abstract ideas we wish to convey.<br /><br /></span><div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Meditation and contemplation were part of the painting process. Symbols and colors would appear. It is a thing or color representing something abstract. Personally, I see symbols as Motherfather Spirit telling me stop, be alert and take notice. Contemplating their appearance helps me be open to what is needed or eliminated in my life. <br /><br />The following symbols appeared in my meditations repeatedly and were included in my painting.<br /><br /><b>Bluebird: </b>Harbinger of Spring, renewal and transformation, growth. cheerfulness, happiness, prosperity, hearth and home, good health, new births, the renewal of springtime, etc. Virtually any positive sentiments may be attached to the bluebird. Messenger bird of Xi Wangmu.<br /><br />Navajo Song for waking up and greeting the morning sun.<br /><br /> Bluebird said to me,<br /><br />"Get up, my grandchild.<br /><br />It is dawn," it said to me<br /><br />When I put her in, my best friend said Zippideedodah. I remembered this being my favorite song as a child. The song put me in a different place. <br /><br /><b>Dogwood flower:</b> Symbol of rebirth and resurrection. Victorians saw the flower as a signal for love and strength. The Dogwood flower comes in many colors. <br /><br />The dogwood kept showing up. <br /><br />I also see the flower representing the four directions of a compass and the center being where two roads meet. A crossroad being a place in your journey when a decision needs to be made. It is a place where there is a balance of opposites. In many stories, it is a place to meet guardians to help you: Hecate, Vanth, Elgaba and Brighid. Wise women to assist you with your decision. All you need to do is ask. This is something hard for me. I have problems asking for help. I am first to help others, why not the reciprocal? <br /><br />I am nearing a crossroad. I am ending my present position and trying a new career. I want to use art in this new career. My wish when I come to the crossroad that I will meet interesting people to show me how.<br /> <br /><b>Colors</b> of the dawn based on western European traditions: <br /></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Reds: excitement, energy, passion, love, desire, strength, power, and passionate </span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Oranges: energy, balance, enthusiasm, warmth, vibrant, expansive, flamboyant, demanding of attention</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Yellows: signifies joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer, gold, philosophy, and friendship.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Purple: spirituality, ceremony, mysterious, transformation, wisdom, enlightenment, honor, mourning, and temperance.</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Turquoise: symbolizes calm. </span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Dawn for me is about new beginnings. A new day to shake off what isnât working and forgive. A new day for joy.<br /><b><br />Owl:</b> Knowledge and wisdom beyond intellect. Ability to see what isnât seen. The owl announces change and transition. Important changes are about to take place.<br /><br />I did not purposely paint the owl into my painting. The owl appeared after the last glaze. It appeared very ghostly, and I chose to maintain the owlâs presence by faintly painting it in. <br /><br /><b>The Celtic Triple Spiral or Triskele</b>: Is a female power sign and one of transition through growth. It also is said to mean one cannot be healthy without all three elements joined together: mind, body and spirit. <br /><b><br />The Three Rays of Awen:</b> The Celts used this symbol for transformation experienced through the power of fire. This symbol can be found in the Dogwood flowers. <br /><br /><b>Tuning Fork:</b> a two-pronged steel device used by musicians, which vibrates when struck to give a note of specific pitch. The bluebird stands on it. I keep returning to Jonathan Davisâ article on how to restore harmony within and with others (2015). Davis writes about the Hawaiian practise of Hoâoponopono (Iâm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you) helps retune one from discord to calm. Each day is an opportunity to reset and try again to be a better person. <br /><br /><b>Scars Symbols </b>were a leaf like symbol inspired by Henri Matisse. Each scar placed into the painting were ones I self-identified through an exercise shared by Louis Reed, Energy Medicine Institute. Louis Reed was a guest lecturer at Amber Kuileimailani Bonnici Women Unleashed Winter 2018. These were painted over during a glazing process. One of the scars turned into the owl. <img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/2eM5b0QbSCcK8K3f39iR2apbVTUdhd9aqjKd0mRBKrUFxoJuMrBdoVZuxeA4rLVKEKoyM068Cnk2lfyjhHubsrVN2rVSvyXM9nF3_ddRLD7y7UGj9yW533KI6gSJd_0Pqi9zb9hL" /><br /><br /><br /><b>Aqua Aura Quartz: </b>The properties of the stone are said to help one to realize self truth, even the truths you refuse to know or believe. It is a crystal to give you mental clarity and help develop your spirit. The crystal is also said to help you balance your masculine and feminine energy and release feelings of anger. <br /><br />I have Aqua Aura Quartz on my desk at work. A small crystal fell off while I was dusting. The tiny quarts was painted into the heart area of the women with flowers in her hair. </span></div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-16606296207450091942019-06-30T15:30:00.002-07:002019-06-30T15:30:58.794-07:00Woman with the Flowers in Her Hair: Part 2<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjso-U6tXC0V-df_B2ekWEMFjyaeo8fsBbhD6HZ-nrR3JT4mQkTbJPnihL_VJFH3ejGdCjHweZkvr18xnRKTK1XN_rLuyOzEQv8ZoYZKLLWe7FbrCkjD3Nh7L8NyY72f-Byovk3HVnHZ9s/s1600/Woman+with+Flowers+in+her+Hair+Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="714" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjso-U6tXC0V-df_B2ekWEMFjyaeo8fsBbhD6HZ-nrR3JT4mQkTbJPnihL_VJFH3ejGdCjHweZkvr18xnRKTK1XN_rLuyOzEQv8ZoYZKLLWe7FbrCkjD3Nh7L8NyY72f-Byovk3HVnHZ9s/s320/Woman+with+Flowers+in+her+Hair+Final.jpg" width="238" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homelight. Woman with the Flowers <br />in Her Hair, 2019</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
âShe wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...â ~~â Arundhati Roy, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/810135">The God of Small Things</a><br />
<br />
âPeople from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.â ~~Iris Murdoch<br />
<br />
âWe need to spread more seeds and fill this Planet with love to be surrounded by flowers just everywhere! It starts by simply opening up our hearts and hands to one another. It's in simple things where true Happiness may flourish.â ~~ Ana Claudia Antunes, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/47517700">A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job</a><br />
<br />
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<b><br /></b>
<b>Steps in Completion:</b><br />
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyrPKqJx2mZtRVWoYp4aSZX7kTMU-qzg8gLNB0Mr0vAFQZEv3ZC-hirL9sMkZ8q5YfiGiAb5EfSeIopc27OZYOIEP1kdJ7fY5MvhjoFGn3a-Sa_-5iLyeNmxi1zmw2w8zPX21ROGBhSM/s1600/Woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyrPKqJx2mZtRVWoYp4aSZX7kTMU-qzg8gLNB0Mr0vAFQZEv3ZC-hirL9sMkZ8q5YfiGiAb5EfSeIopc27OZYOIEP1kdJ7fY5MvhjoFGn3a-Sa_-5iLyeNmxi1zmw2w8zPX21ROGBhSM/s200/Woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+1.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJA4YY9Ua2p9KJG1h2aoamY5dvKHqohjDutCXgS_xJ7BxiYUQ-x1vdXGZba4kevKtcSxEK4wf1QrNEW8iwlCls-itDmltzGz_C14Ikdl_CL-vgESAgfU6cJtx3rOzt6-dZZqOrhKK-G4/s1600/Woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJA4YY9Ua2p9KJG1h2aoamY5dvKHqohjDutCXgS_xJ7BxiYUQ-x1vdXGZba4kevKtcSxEK4wf1QrNEW8iwlCls-itDmltzGz_C14Ikdl_CL-vgESAgfU6cJtx3rOzt6-dZZqOrhKK-G4/s200/Woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_A00ZZvNl_EQhZqHJbQn5Uj6cJKlZWIreiFp3qvV-Ft1V7Q6nZSZ9iVWRUKiKGLOzN5K4bbYuNiFQdH93aj9sniP4bb4Z2_0aiM36AlMvE464ej8otGdnOa6rJGLDSfaC4cOwFdenHc/s1600/Woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_A00ZZvNl_EQhZqHJbQn5Uj6cJKlZWIreiFp3qvV-Ft1V7Q6nZSZ9iVWRUKiKGLOzN5K4bbYuNiFQdH93aj9sniP4bb4Z2_0aiM36AlMvE464ej8otGdnOa6rJGLDSfaC4cOwFdenHc/s200/Woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+3.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX7n63yYhebnWebXw9VTz-ZLPomanKHsYi8AZLdGl4h127kWWRj52GKxrALqkldfmCbKGgqp-D_l7Ha_ZgI1GsEl2pc0ZgvtdtgFT3xd-un1NZpn_dS-ic7bKl8s4AEQPqKKcH7z2QGk0/s1600/Woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX7n63yYhebnWebXw9VTz-ZLPomanKHsYi8AZLdGl4h127kWWRj52GKxrALqkldfmCbKGgqp-D_l7Ha_ZgI1GsEl2pc0ZgvtdtgFT3xd-un1NZpn_dS-ic7bKl8s4AEQPqKKcH7z2QGk0/s200/Woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+4.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigzpVOFz6hyphenhyphenZXwQo8vYlVgTE6C76ado4l-GXzP0rFW5vIEL_wi5QQMk0Ktn27EJALZXejmo9w6ZRbgNGfwNJu1Wj_FiW_KVofWtA2_IouGlY9Y5y-2Jjm_CHevxAUwiOh03AWP1PPWvUQ/s1600/woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigzpVOFz6hyphenhyphenZXwQo8vYlVgTE6C76ado4l-GXzP0rFW5vIEL_wi5QQMk0Ktn27EJALZXejmo9w6ZRbgNGfwNJu1Wj_FiW_KVofWtA2_IouGlY9Y5y-2Jjm_CHevxAUwiOh03AWP1PPWvUQ/s200/woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+6.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmSuZO6BZ1QGe52CUyu3A5wrhCe96RyEDS_hyphenhyphenUDxZ0V2HuGMCUzaCYlLt8okeRLnVwWohO6GR0fTr04gkexh9oQNHi9bp7hS8ESt2hY4jSMhcEqpAs6b0XC9iN1apoBASlpQUOZZsFTY0/s1600/Woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmSuZO6BZ1QGe52CUyu3A5wrhCe96RyEDS_hyphenhyphenUDxZ0V2HuGMCUzaCYlLt8okeRLnVwWohO6GR0fTr04gkexh9oQNHi9bp7hS8ESt2hY4jSMhcEqpAs6b0XC9iN1apoBASlpQUOZZsFTY0/s200/Woman+with+flowers+in+her+hair+5.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<b>The Woman with the Flowers in Her Hair</b></div>
By Homelight 1/10/2019<br /><br />Let me tell you about the woman <br />with the flowers in her hair. I awake<br />moments before the dawn showers. When <br />sunlight paints hymns of pinks, cheery <br />oranges, playful yellows blended <br />Into divine purple -- rainbow hues <br />revel my beauty. <br /><br />âZippidee do dah,â I sing. âItâs going to be <br />a wonderful day.â<br /><br />It is me with the flowers in my hair, <br />standing in my power -- heart aligned <br />to create my âtodayâs story.â Everyday <br />a choice for more joy, for more love, for more<br />expansion along my spiral journey. <br />Nightly rituals to make right within, I shed <br />sloth off yesterdayâs walls, outgrown <br />habits-- rocky people all forgiven <br />I am reborn into the sunshine<br />lite, renewed. <br /><br />âZippidee do dah,â I sing. âThis day will be <br />wonderful.â<br /><br />I love that woman with the flowers in her hair.<br />I am strong, kind and gaily spread <br />infectious laughter. It's in the tunes <br />I whistle to make feet tap, hips sway <br />with merriment. I am a woman <br />with flowers in my hair -- opening hearts <br />to possibilities in all things. I am woman<br />who love life.<br /><br />âZippidee do dah,â I sing, âWhat a wonderful<br />day.â</span></div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-10887797772920214622019-06-13T04:33:00.002-07:002019-06-14T04:06:24.479-07:00Woman with the Flowers in Her Hair<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJBEZvkrtxwJXnpjeJYMTZae3w5JYigX6ne6ifedVvD9em__dtt2ENpFAn81wD_ncN2LGSS7Eu1hB0oBrF7IFi5A0fwWn9Yr8g0Pcr5Gi4fKxBywIBtoNIgrpVwC0P-5me9XCBipwv4Hk/s1600/Woman+with+Flowers+in+her+Hair+Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="714" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJBEZvkrtxwJXnpjeJYMTZae3w5JYigX6ne6ifedVvD9em__dtt2ENpFAn81wD_ncN2LGSS7Eu1hB0oBrF7IFi5A0fwWn9Yr8g0Pcr5Gi4fKxBywIBtoNIgrpVwC0P-5me9XCBipwv4Hk/s320/Woman+with+Flowers+in+her+Hair+Final.jpg" width="237" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homelight, The Woman with the Flowers <br />
in Her Hair. 2019</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.â </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">~~Joan of Arc<br /><br />Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it<br />~~Oprah Winfrey <br /><br />"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." ~~Maya Angelou<br /><br />âbloom/beautifully/dangerously/loudly/bloom softly/however you need/just bloomâ ~~Rupi Kaur<br /><br /><br /><br />Conform or be transformed?<br /><br />I recently came across several articles about these two words: conform or be transformed. The gist of the articles was that many of us measure joy and happiness on how much stuff we have. The articles described the external variables we use in measuring happiness: our job, the car we drive, or where we live, how we look and dress. There is a toll in believing these are the key ingredients for happiness. When I find myself under stress I begin to conform to these computations. I forget that happiness and joy comes from within. </span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is another variable that lurks and influences how I get stuck. The damn mirror and bullies and naysayers don't like the facets that make me who I am. My inner critic is addicted to their messages and repeats them in my head. Out of fear or having anxiety, I push away my uniqueness...my way of making chocolate cakes or gardening or choosing black versus the bright colors my real self likes to wear. I feel bad for trying to fit into a "dictated mold" and I feel bad that I have conformed. Ultimately, I sit and stew that I am sacrificing who I am to feel prescribed happiness and joy. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">~~~</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our Deepest Fear<br />By Marianne Williamson<br /><br />Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.<br />Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.<br />It is our light, not our darkness<br />That most frightens us.<br />We ask ourselves<br />Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?<br />Actually, who are you not to be?<br />You are a child of God.<br />Your playing small<br />Does not serve the world.<br />There's nothing enlightened about shrinking<br />So that other people won't feel insecure around you.<br />We are all meant to shine,<br />As children do.<br />We were born to make manifest<br />The glory of God that is within us.<br />It's not just in some of us;<br />It's in everyone.<br />And as we let our own light shine,<br />We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.<br />As we're liberated from our own fear,<br />Our presence automatically liberates others.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845977.A_Return_to_Love" target="_blank">Williamson, Marianne.</a> A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles." New York, NYHarpersOne, 1992. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Note: The quote, âOur Deepest Fearâ often is quoted as being part of <a href="https://www.news24.com/NelsonMandela/Speeches/FULL-TEXT-Cape-Town-Inauguration-Speech-20110124" target="_blank">Nelson Mandela's inaugural speech</a>, "Our Deepest Fear" does not appear in the speech. Marianne Williamson herself has noted this mistaken attribution.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">~~</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My recent painting, "The Woman With the Flowers in Her Hair," I dedicated it to a quest for happiness and joy in my life. While I painted I reflected: </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why don't I welcome my own style? Why am I unsure about what I really like or don't like? Why is it easier for TV and the magazines to inform me? </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I began searching for what it really feel to be happy? (Not what my family or friends feel happiness is, but me.) I landed on this song by the Cowsills: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl61-KMQAnE" target="_blank">The Woman with the Flowers in her Hair or The Rain, The Park and Other Things</a>. For those not familiar. It was a sunshine pop song of 1967 by a family band (reminding me of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Partridge_Family" target="_blank">Partridge Family Show</a>). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The lyrics talk about a woman wearing flowers in her hair and is in the park. It takes courage to pull this look off and then to have the confidence to go out into a public space. Listening to the song, while painting; I began to wonder what happened to my courage. W</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">hy am I allowing people to dictate my journey? My journey?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-28618994951378094092019-06-13T04:25:00.003-07:002019-06-13T04:25:59.060-07:00I Love the Flower Girl by The Cowsills ( lyrics on video )<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bl61-KMQAnE" width="459"></iframe>Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-24632020047765496492019-05-30T19:24:00.000-07:002019-05-31T04:12:52.350-07:00Nebula the Muse: Part 3<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxnjbd9Z8TcWQmnT1hNA1n1vlBe1n2T16M02zIEvzLDRYs-zlYb51Tqi8hwIN6orkw94BucYNiDpovZCGdft5ye8yfTJE36jUd77RGu78_pDgs1-t1sNVRj9-f9rKgQG2Vi4zNalqxiXs/s1600/Muse+take+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxnjbd9Z8TcWQmnT1hNA1n1vlBe1n2T16M02zIEvzLDRYs-zlYb51Tqi8hwIN6orkw94BucYNiDpovZCGdft5ye8yfTJE36jUd77RGu78_pDgs1-t1sNVRj9-f9rKgQG2Vi4zNalqxiXs/s320/Muse+take+2.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homelight. Nebula 2019</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>A bird does not sing because it has the answer. It sings because it has a song. </i> Chinese Proverb.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Every life has a soundtrack.</i> Jodi Picoult</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've spoken before about music and how it can uplift my spirit. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Below is my playlist for Nebula:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nebula the Museâs </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Playlist:</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attacca Quartet. âEntâacte.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Caroline Shaw: Orange</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, New Amsterdam/Nonesuch, 2019</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bareilles, Sara. âBrave.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Blessed Unrest</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Epic Records, 2013. </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bedingfield. Natasha. âUnwritten.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unwritten</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Phonogenic Records, 2004.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Benatar, Pat. âInvincible.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seven The Hard Way</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Capitol/Emi/Sbk/Chrysalis, 1991.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Caillat, Colbie. âBrighter than the Sun.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of You</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Republic, 2011.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chapman, Tracy. âTalkin Bout a Revolution.â</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Tracy Chapman</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Elektra Records, 1988.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coldplay. âA Sky Full of Stars.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ghost Stories</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Parlophone UK, 2014.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Collins, Judy. âThe Times They Are A-Changinââ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amazing,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Chrome & Nickel, 2015. </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coltrane, John. âStardust.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stardust (Remastered ed.)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Prestige, 2007.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cravalho, Auliâi. âKnow Who You Are.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moana (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Walt Disney Records, 2016.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crow, Sheryl. âAll I Wanna Do.â</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Tuesday Night Music Club</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, A&M, 1993.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crow, Sheryl. âSoak Up The Sun.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Câmon CâMon</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, A&M, 2002.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Cranberries. âThe Pressure.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the End</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, 2019.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Donovan. âLady of the Stars.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Golden Tracks</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Purple Pyramid, 2000.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earth Wind and Fire. âStar.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thatâs the Way of the World</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Columbia, 1975. </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Etting, Ruth. âLife Is a Song, Letâs Sing It Together.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Easy Come, Easy Go</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, (Original Recordings 1931-1937), Open Spotify. 2012.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Florence and The Machine. âShake It Out.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ceremonials,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Republic, 2011.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jett, Joan and the Blackhearts. âDonât Surrender.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notorious</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Blackheart/Epic-Sony, 1991.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hackman, Marika. âiâm not where you are.â</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> iâm not where you are</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Sub Pop Records, 2019.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">House, Rachel and Auliâi Cravalho. âI am Moana (Song of the Ancestors).â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moana (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walt Disney Records, 2016.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Khan. Chaka. âThe Woman I am.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Woman I am,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Warner Brothers, 1998.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La La Land Cast. "Another Day of Sun." </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> La La Land </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Original Motion Picture Sound Cast), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interscope Records, 2016.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lambert, Mary. âSecrets.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heart on My Sleeve</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Capitol, 2014.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Latifah, Queen. âU.N.I.T.Y.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sheâs a Queen: A Collection of the Greatest,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Motown, 2002.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Loper, Cindy. âGirls Want to Have Fun.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sheâs So Unusual</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Portrait, 1983.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lovato, Demi. âConfident.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Confident (Deluxe Edition),</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Hollywood Records, 2015.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Madonna. âExpress Yourself.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like a Prayer</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Sire/Warner Bros,1989.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michaelson, Ingrid. âThe Way I Am.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Girls and Boys</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Original Signal, 2007.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naim, Yael. âNew Soul.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yael Naim,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Atlantic, 2008.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panton, Diana. âI Believe in Little Things.â I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Believe in Little Things</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Independent Label Services, Inc. 2017.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panton, Diana, âSo Many Stars.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the Moon Turns Green, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Independent Label Services, Inc. 2017.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ross, Diana. âIâm Coming Out.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diana, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Motown Records, 2017.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spice Girls. âWannabe.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spice,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Virgin Records, 1996.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sting. âSister Moon.â ..</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.Nothing Like The Sun</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, A&M Records, 1987.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tank and The Bangas. âInterlude (God Push Me).â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think Tank</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Feedbands, 2017.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They Might Be Giants âPut it to the test.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here Comes Science. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Disney Sound/Idlewood, 2009.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Van Morrison. âMoondance.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moondance (Deluxe Edition)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Warner Bros. Records, 2013.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weather Report. âMilky Way.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forecast: Tomorrow, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Columbia, 2006.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wonder, Stevie. âAnother Star.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the Close of a Century,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Motown Records, 1999</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yellowjackets. âEmerge.â </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Raising Our Voices</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Mack Avenue Records, 2018.</span></div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-4070881354889211192019-05-14T16:00:00.001-07:002019-05-15T04:44:14.421-07:00Nebula the Muse: Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTrAHdUSs55vfjo2mHDUnDztFlU9QvkKkVnyKiEWsjSpkWDuo9sBH1MpyS348-2TbnnJnCrpnVjosAlBtNKUbkImk3uJh2IZIBNZzV4blIZfMbLGFT9L7DkhVJCCcFL9HLGH0drDSJ6cU/s1600/Muse+take+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTrAHdUSs55vfjo2mHDUnDztFlU9QvkKkVnyKiEWsjSpkWDuo9sBH1MpyS348-2TbnnJnCrpnVjosAlBtNKUbkImk3uJh2IZIBNZzV4blIZfMbLGFT9L7DkhVJCCcFL9HLGH0drDSJ6cU/s320/Muse+take+2.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homelight. <i>Nebula</i>. 2019</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">â</span>Did you know that the center of a Protostar (the star in the middle of a nebula) is called a Nuclear Furnace? So you can call that the star's "heart." The heart of a star is a furnace. Not much unlike the human heart.â </i> â C. JoyBell C.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"I am just learning to notice the different colors of stars, and already begun to have enjoyment.â</i> -- Maria Mitchell</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Stages of Completion </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs81bDXe5HEQasH1E66WCkVYdb2bvrVOS_Hh487fJHDSaXJ2lgpZUjB5UNr-4GCJPonEps780c_RNaEYa7ajMpbzNSy0vRnffX1OVUihyphenhyphenmVPTas1bzvSv5tH-D3csZBkNnnonrMGwlz4Y/s1600/Muse+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs81bDXe5HEQasH1E66WCkVYdb2bvrVOS_Hh487fJHDSaXJ2lgpZUjB5UNr-4GCJPonEps780c_RNaEYa7ajMpbzNSy0vRnffX1OVUihyphenhyphenmVPTas1bzvSv5tH-D3csZBkNnnonrMGwlz4Y/s200/Muse+1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhutFw8fhV14tymoAgVUtqrittqbLbRiXq-Mbdq2DaHE-KuN5Gt36NOym21bmhK_9slCFeUd3PqEH7OF0G_J5reWitdXAczNJ8i8lDJs40llsPEsSGwsKpG36DaSzAMXPD6aKQCCprnu6o/s1600/Muse+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhutFw8fhV14tymoAgVUtqrittqbLbRiXq-Mbdq2DaHE-KuN5Gt36NOym21bmhK_9slCFeUd3PqEH7OF0G_J5reWitdXAczNJ8i8lDJs40llsPEsSGwsKpG36DaSzAMXPD6aKQCCprnu6o/s200/Muse+2.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="150" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiL9Lpks6vp9XTWa2D8G8Wpxe_6ugf6bhSdJGT5SuMTAAaPBMnHlG4_fRaRj7DowSLixaZhPwpoqyNlU1SVkar8seDZU7HMCbVamgM6Sxi5EPXanQyLc_4dNHVqc4XEWSHZjIaCO-DkcA/s1600/Muse+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7L3KwJeYykt9Nm1VN4RJ1Zim2Ur_BdDqEaCGXYYL90bDsCCz5j35iUsnFMXHpecwmzVeroklQlAAp72E3es1GlJN4KxeH-fPXnSpNxaASBfVbHs9O-6esM40iBwDF9U9pDdvVHjUwgg8/s1600/Muse+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="714" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7L3KwJeYykt9Nm1VN4RJ1Zim2Ur_BdDqEaCGXYYL90bDsCCz5j35iUsnFMXHpecwmzVeroklQlAAp72E3es1GlJN4KxeH-fPXnSpNxaASBfVbHs9O-6esM40iBwDF9U9pDdvVHjUwgg8/s200/Muse+4.jpg" width="148" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiL9Lpks6vp9XTWa2D8G8Wpxe_6ugf6bhSdJGT5SuMTAAaPBMnHlG4_fRaRj7DowSLixaZhPwpoqyNlU1SVkar8seDZU7HMCbVamgM6Sxi5EPXanQyLc_4dNHVqc4XEWSHZjIaCO-DkcA/s200/Muse+3.jpg" width="200" /></div>
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWNXVm67GFzY-PA1vg5y-VhrqclFqJ3yzLoOljnSNzBYIhDOjl9_sjY4F4_EGTUkucWiz9R9b9EFISmtcxxnfLgdH1LzVCTHaPm6_SjVxhPsxSFNiF86W9DmJ2GUMe3_veorXXcG1HvfI/s1600/Muse+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="714" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWNXVm67GFzY-PA1vg5y-VhrqclFqJ3yzLoOljnSNzBYIhDOjl9_sjY4F4_EGTUkucWiz9R9b9EFISmtcxxnfLgdH1LzVCTHaPm6_SjVxhPsxSFNiF86W9DmJ2GUMe3_veorXXcG1HvfI/s200/Muse+5.jpg" width="148" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6B-TZb3f24IWrHuXyKp2nsQy4qV8M2s83CdXYLt5kZOS3YU3jGMRO3Hxl0PZfmO9i3L4UKA2KHEhTulNeMW8z3xrHsXyWz_FdgnZ_x4dmnja1XeqQXzUGKQ75QJYA5BwMf8g4n0hpj74/s1600/Muse+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="714" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6B-TZb3f24IWrHuXyKp2nsQy4qV8M2s83CdXYLt5kZOS3YU3jGMRO3Hxl0PZfmO9i3L4UKA2KHEhTulNeMW8z3xrHsXyWz_FdgnZ_x4dmnja1XeqQXzUGKQ75QJYA5BwMf8g4n0hpj74/s200/Muse+6.jpg" width="148" /></a><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzyKUsMKrRE0ZhltlZ78VUjcg8WnF3b8bmMB8YBhRO2iJ_VYxOP97IH7NjnIr-f04lVamHQ7BeeXyOTSHeaQ1l6CP-Ame2fnowhMVdxT53paJO1WDwTuwYgj1lU653OmeyVIl6Ro_3pJk/s1600/Muse+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="714" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzyKUsMKrRE0ZhltlZ78VUjcg8WnF3b8bmMB8YBhRO2iJ_VYxOP97IH7NjnIr-f04lVamHQ7BeeXyOTSHeaQ1l6CP-Ame2fnowhMVdxT53paJO1WDwTuwYgj1lU653OmeyVIl6Ro_3pJk/s200/Muse+7.jpg" width="148" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Painting provides me another way contemplate and reflect. Each brush stroke is an opportunity to dialogue with Motherfather Spirit. I stand back or sit and stare at the painting and ponder different questions. During my painting of Nebula, I thought about 1) how can I have a life filled with joy and happiness? 2) Does the lack of laughter and silliness a result of life without my muse?; 3) what does life feels like when the two are working as a team?</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I want to acknowledge that my critic is needed to inquire and think logically through a problem, and my muse is needed to be a little off the wall for solving a problem. However, my muse can tolerate my critic only so much. She has a tipping point with unnecessary crap and frequent bad news and negative feelings found in meetings or back to back conference calls. These are what my critic thrives on. But, my museâs heart wants space to dream of orange-vanilla globules and gales of candy pink bubbles. My muse wants to dance under the stars or at least pirouette in her office chair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcieUoI1X0NwE9NXXzsUz6-NxSkYopxMpKOPFTDA4tCgrJ6ApJfi9-aYCZAvGMYbzlSiyCQysxl6a7093VGuNHNZNdzHGIidmhXllK24NmDCbULKNT5KTi4G-YRpUsO2E31F81lNQDth8/s1600/Muse+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="714" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcieUoI1X0NwE9NXXzsUz6-NxSkYopxMpKOPFTDA4tCgrJ6ApJfi9-aYCZAvGMYbzlSiyCQysxl6a7093VGuNHNZNdzHGIidmhXllK24NmDCbULKNT5KTi4G-YRpUsO2E31F81lNQDth8/s200/Muse+8.jpg" width="148" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This painting felt more intuitive than The Woman with the Flowers in Her Hair. I turned the canvas around and around after putting in the initial color brush strokes. Her face appeared in the canvas and all I had to do is follow the lines to draw her and her hair in. Initially, I saw her as a cross between Cyndi Lauper<a href="https://youtu.be/PIb6AZdTr-A" target="_blank"> âGirls want to have funâ</a> and a Joan Jett <a href="https://youtu.be/CTzvwHMsWUo" target="_blank">âDonât Surrender.â</a> I placed rune marks throughout her hair: peace, love, joy and balance; and only one grouping remains. The runes are symbols for having a peaceful and joyful relationship between the muse and the critic. <br /><br />Following the first glaze, the colors revealed a different story. She became Nebula: the one who births stars out of dying stardust. Nebula, the muse, is a creator. It is very descriptive of what I do. How often do I see something new in broken pieces? I see the potential of a new star. As I glazed over the canvas two birds appeared. I</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> left them as outlines and interpreted them as an awakening. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The painting is an awakening for the muse, critic and I to be better team players. I have a strong compassion and love for both. These two in balance make a better me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Nebula (April 2019)</b><br />by Homelight<br /><br />I am the spark, the seed, the first notion of a wish.<br />Exploding stars, dark giants, orange-vanilla globules, knots of lime green;<br />primal ephemeral - transformed gas and glitter into fiery lights.<br />I am the universe of unlimited possibilities.<br /><br />Exploding stars, dark giants, orange-vanilla globules, knots of lime green,<br />gales of candy pink bubbles melting metal and sand;<br />I am the universe of unlimited possibilities.<br />I lose myself twirling, spiraling in a celestial dance.<br /><br />Gales of candy pink bubbles melting metal and sand,<br />primal ephemeral - transformed gas and glitter into fiery lights;<br />I lose myself twirling, spiraling in a celestial dance.<br />I am the spark, the seed, the first notion of a wish.<br /><br /><br /><i>Nebula is written in pantoum form. âThe pantoum form is a Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets and occasionally imitated in English. It comprises a series of quatrains, with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the next. The second and fourth lines of the final stanza repeat the first and third lines of the first stanza.â (Poetry Foundation)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Reference:</b></span><br />
<ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poetry Foundation. âGlossary of terms.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Poetryfoundation.org, r</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">etrieved 7 May, 2019 </span><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/pantoum" style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/pantoum</span></a></span></div>
</li>
</ol>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90cb1db3-7fff-2f31-ad2b-85370554fd75"></span><br /></div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-84977831787208348662019-05-07T16:19:00.001-07:002019-05-15T04:27:00.032-07:00Nebula: The Muse Part 1<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg61quW2dCn93pu8OfyZ1nekDPsRkryH7rhOkDljGaL7Mt0VGNhfLVZ4Up9yRbBJcoW6HkfO7oppxMtzdZpA8Vnc5d6DVCk5-Jm9nX-wFZNMlI-jT_GfAV4v7sz7-GPg5M1uaArIuKouFw/s1600/Muse+take+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg61quW2dCn93pu8OfyZ1nekDPsRkryH7rhOkDljGaL7Mt0VGNhfLVZ4Up9yRbBJcoW6HkfO7oppxMtzdZpA8Vnc5d6DVCk5-Jm9nX-wFZNMlI-jT_GfAV4v7sz7-GPg5M1uaArIuKouFw/s320/Muse+take+2.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Homelight. <i>Nebula</i>. 2019.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">âI </span>am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.â â Frida Kahlo<br /><br /><br /><br />âThe golden anchor beckons, the blue sail rises<br />Like the wing of a dream unfolding to a new day.<br />Let us depart, my muse!<br />Beyond an anxious prow, the sea stretches itself outâŠâ â Delmira Agustini</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />My first encounter with muses was in Mrs. Bloomerâs eighth grade English reading Homer's <i><a href="https://www.ancient-literature.com/greece_homer_iliad.html" target="_blank">Iliad</a></i> and the <i><a href="https://www.ancient-literature.com/greece_homer_odyssey.html" target="_blank">Odyssey</a></i>. The muses, were the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. I believe Mrs. Bloomerâs discussion centered on the gifts these nine women brought to humankind: the humanities and astronomy. <br /><br />Literature, science, and art classes I took, explained that each of us had a muse. The inner muse was described as the spark of inspiration that gives writers, inventors, artists, and me the idea. This spark was the creative impulse that drove one to bring an idea into existence. Teachers, professors, and family members assured me I had it. Everyone had a muse. Inspired by the joy of creating; I would paint and write and crunch numbers and garden and knit. However, more often than not, I would receive less than an A or someone would scrunch their face and tilt their head to the side and tell me âperhaps my gifts was in another fieldâ or maybe I needed to get in better touch with my muse by listening harder. Similar to Shakespeare, I thought my muse was dried up or she was partying somewhere out of my reach.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Sonnet C (1609)</b><br />William Shakespeare <br /><br />Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long,<br />To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?<br />Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,<br />Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?<br />Return forgetful Muse, and straight redeem,<br />In gentle numbers time so idly spent;<br />Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem<br />And gives thy pen both skill and argument.<br />Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,<br />If Time have any wrinkle graven there;<br />If any, be a satire to decay,<br />And make Time's spoils despised every where.<br />Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life,<br />So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Since the beginning of April, Iâve been working on a painting entitled: Nebula. The theme of this painting module was to focus on being in contact with my inner muse. Truthfully, my inner muse has been out partying. The last time I saw her was in the opening dance scene for the movie <i>La La Land</i> singing âAnother Day of Sunâ on top of a car roof. She recently sent me a postcard from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucca" target="_blank">Lucca, Italy</a> with a recipe for homemade tomato sauce and inquired about the status of my inner critic.<br /><br />Life has been serious. The subject matter of my work is serious. My inner critic somehow managed to acquire super powers that sucks the joy out of everything. This inner voice has turned against me and nitpicks everything I seem to do. It echos people critical of my work from back in school. I canât blame my muse for taking off. My critic doesnât believe in howling at the moon, âwhat will people think?â <br /><br />What will people think indeed. <br /><br />I found this module a creative means to invite the muse back into my life. </span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7CVfTd-_qbc/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7CVfTd-_qbc?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">La La Land Cast. "Another Day of Sun." <i> La La Land </i>(Original Motion Picture Sound Cast), <span style="background-color: white;">Interscope Records, 2016.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>Reference:</b><br />Homer. Illiad. Translated Samuel Butler, 800 BCE, retrieved 7 May, 2019 <a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html">http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html</a><br />Homer. Odyssey, Translated Samuel Butler, 800 BCE, retrieved 7 May, 2019 <a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html">http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html</a> <br />La La Land Cast. "Another Day of Sun." La La Land (Original Motion Picture Sound Cast), Interscope Records, 2016. retrieved 7 May, 2019. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CVfTd-_qbc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CVfTd-_qbc</a> <br />Shakespeare, William. âSonnet C.â 1609 retrieved 7 May 2019. <a href="http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/sonnet.C.html">http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/sonnet.C.html</a></span><br />
<div>
</div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-22414737852207637592019-04-27T14:05:00.000-07:002019-04-27T14:05:16.913-07:00Women's Sports Coverage: Abby Wambach<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxzerB6kTuJdC25crp91Gc2TCx33mGPCDSor6SZe0Xeg6cgKPXOiUdC6n0QSoWG84f0vRTgw57dAnynH8LVOdx0rSWAb757FGos08LlhqQvaGFIpwRCVVKU7G8IUo5_Q8GuVjTy84Ook/s1600/Wambach-cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbxzerB6kTuJdC25crp91Gc2TCx33mGPCDSor6SZe0Xeg6cgKPXOiUdC6n0QSoWG84f0vRTgw57dAnynH8LVOdx0rSWAb757FGos08LlhqQvaGFIpwRCVVKU7G8IUo5_Q8GuVjTy84Ook/s320/Wambach-cropped.jpg" width="248" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wambach warming up for an <br />
international friendly match against <br />
Canada, September 2011 HM Larson</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">âYou might find yourself holding a baby instead of a briefcase and fearing that your colleagues are âgetting aheadâ and leaving you behind. Hereâs whatâs important: You are allowed to be disappointed when it feels like lifeâs benched you. What you arenât allowed to do is miss your opportunity to lead from the bench. If youâre not a leader on the bench, donât call yourself a leader on the field. Youâre either a leader everywhere or nowhere.â <br />â Abby Wambach, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/65247167">WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power and Change the Game</a><br /><br />âYou see, soccer didnât make me who I am. I brought who I am to soccer, and I get to bring who I am wherever I go. So do you.â â Abby Wambach, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/65247167">WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game</a><br /><br />âLeadership is taking care of yourself and empowering others to do the same. Leadership is not a position to earn, itâs an inherent power to claim. Leadership is the blood that runs through your veinsâitâs born in you. Itâs not the privilege of a few, it is the right and responsibility of all. Leader is not a title that the world gives to youâitâs an offering that you give to the world.â â Abby Wambach, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/65247167">WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game</a><br /><br /><br />The <a href="https://www.ncl.com/cruise-ship/pearl">Norwegian Cruise Ship </a>the Pearl has thirteen bars and lounges. Most of them have flat screen TVs that broadcast sporting events. I would walk pass these areas on my way to music concerts. What I began to notice the sports coverage was either menâs basketball (college and NBA), soccer, or golf. This was very interesting on a ship with a 95% population of women. Especially, when womenâs college basketball tournament was at its height and the womenâs pre-world cup soccer friendlies were happening around the world. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Abby Wambach: Barnard Commencement 2018</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wJe40l2waxs/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wJe40l2waxs?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The year Abby Wambach was born was my last year of play N.O.S.O. soccer. I had played girls club soccer starting in the mid-seventies. When I entered high school, the number of girls participating dropped and it became harder to have a league. Girls at my high school had varsity sports to choose from and or held jobs to save money for college. Soccer at my high school was a boys only sport. It wouldn't become a varsity sport until eight years later. <br /><br />I was a half-back or now would be called a midfielder. I was the player who was in between the forwards and the fullbacks; and I did go after the ball. Soccer was a game where I could be aggressive by being willing to fight for the ball and send it to the forward to assist with goals. Those were in the days without shin guards. <br /><br />When I learned to play soccer there were no Mia Hamms or Abby Wambachs or Hope Solos or Christen Presses. Pele was the dude everyone was talking about. On the field, we would enact his dribbling moves and goals. True at the time, not many U.S.ers understood what soccer was; but I envy the girls today who can see a woman doing cool soccer moves. They get to practice Abby Wambachâs header from the world cup against Brazil. <br /></span>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
</span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Being Strong</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
</span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The kindest words my father spoke to me</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">women like you down oceans</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
</span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">-rupi kaur</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
</span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Kaur, Rupi. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23513349-milk-and-honey?from_search=true" target="_blank">Milk and Honey</a>. Kansas City, MO: Andrew McMeel Publishing, LCC. 2015.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />If you havenât kept up with the news. The US Womenâs National Soccer Team has filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against US Soccer. All 28 members of the current team are listed as plaintiffs that alleges discriminatory practices by the USâs federation, including unequal pay, training facilities, coaching, medical treatment and travel conditions.<br /><br />At the same time, Abby Wambach is out on her book tour:<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44494281-wolfpack"> </a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44494281-wolfpack">Wolfpack</a>: How to Come Together, Unleash our Power and Change the Game. Abby Wambach has scored more career goals in soccer than any male or female. (NOTE: 184 goals). Her womenâs leadership book is based on her Barnard commencement speech in 2018 (See above). The inspiration for the speech came from a thought after receiving the <a href="https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/2016/07/14/abby-wambach-honored-kobe-and-peyton-espys-icon-award/87071686/">ESPY icon awards</a> on her retirement.<br /><br />Wambach received the award with retiree Kobe Bryant and retiree Peyton Manning. She was honored and grateful, but as they walked down the stage with their awards it dawned on her: these two men were walking away with a different life than her. These men had sizable retirement packages from their careers. She would have to find a ânew hustle."<br /><br />Women athletes are not paid equal.<br /><br />The common argument is womenâs soccer doesnât make money. Menâs soccer brings in more money. This isnât true. In 2015, the US Womenâs National Soccer Team brought in 6.6 million dollars whereas the menâs team brought in 2 million. <br /></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Back on the Pearl with the 95% population of women traveling, why didn't any of the TVs cover women's sports?</span>Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-88248732743076683852019-04-13T06:37:00.000-07:002019-04-14T08:20:52.210-07:00Not even a princess can escape #MeToo<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdwGsFoAUtfmd2xRXwf0Br85l8kzOY8IDhHLWrBgHWupeAx2pLdTRet67VG1mpH74z6HMOskQ7ucwvovx1uv7ga6bH60iR5ne8Sz_7CLGXcBIHQ8JOhOpQfMzu8EAaZil2wgMD5TVoQ9Y/s1600/Tatiana_Nikolaevna+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="556" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdwGsFoAUtfmd2xRXwf0Br85l8kzOY8IDhHLWrBgHWupeAx2pLdTRet67VG1mpH74z6HMOskQ7ucwvovx1uv7ga6bH60iR5ne8Sz_7CLGXcBIHQ8JOhOpQfMzu8EAaZil2wgMD5TVoQ9Y/s320/Tatiana_Nikolaevna+2.jpg" width="216" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d8a9925d-7fff-7fdb-7f02-2c286763bd9c"></span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-d8a9925d-7fff-7fdb-7f02-2c286763bd9c"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #54595d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Photograph: Tatiana Romanov</span></span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-d8a9925d-7fff-7fdb-7f02-2c286763bd9c">
</span>
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-d8a9925d-7fff-7fdb-7f02-2c286763bd9c"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #54595d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boasson and Eggler St. Petersburg Nevsky 24, </span></span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-d8a9925d-7fff-7fdb-7f02-2c286763bd9c">
</span>
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-d8a9925d-7fff-7fdb-7f02-2c286763bd9c"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #54595d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13 Dec. 1913</span></span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-d8a9925d-7fff-7fdb-7f02-2c286763bd9c">
</span>
<br />
<div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-d8a9925d-7fff-7fdb-7f02-2c286763bd9c"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #54595d; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-d8a9925d-7fff-7fdb-7f02-2c286763bd9c">
</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-88cbbd96-7fff-3b5b-96db-958343018b76"></span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-88cbbd96-7fff-3b5b-96db-958343018b76"><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">âItâs not evil which conquers evil, but love.â Tatiana Romanov</span></span></span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-88cbbd96-7fff-3b5b-96db-958343018b76">
</span>
<br />
<div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-88cbbd96-7fff-3b5b-96db-958343018b76"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-88cbbd96-7fff-3b5b-96db-958343018b76">
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I know it has been a great while since I wrote. Writers have dry spells and wet spells; or in my case they are involved in too many projects. <br /><br />I am back from a six day vacation spent on a cruise with a population of 95% women. The theme centered on kindness and women musicians and singers. The music was great and inspiring. So inspiring, Iâve contemplated getting out my sonâs bass that leans against his bedroom wall and learning how to play it. <br /><br />Being on a cruise with a large population of women, I had dreamed of escaping prominent social norms that tell me how I am supposed to behave as a middle class woman who could afford to be on this trip. I was hoping to turn off my day job, but terrible social norms are hard to toss off the boat. There are many competing norms to consider and I hope to write about these the upcoming months.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">###</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9dHEyldGFLYIdmCILIcDmCDR__oIPF0xoG_5AOhRI8MiZb_zvqdI10nBdsIEYOADUvChiQ-zNuGIaHpyIak3gEt72EbTJ30gpNmJ5Um9KoQ3wFY6GfolEGGvmDUNTIZ32SrHyugXAAUU/s1600/tatiana+on+ship.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9dHEyldGFLYIdmCILIcDmCDR__oIPF0xoG_5AOhRI8MiZb_zvqdI10nBdsIEYOADUvChiQ-zNuGIaHpyIak3gEt72EbTJ30gpNmJ5Um9KoQ3wFY6GfolEGGvmDUNTIZ32SrHyugXAAUU/s320/tatiana+on+ship.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting from Norwegian Pearl Summer Palace Dining Room<br />
Tatiana Romanov and Earnest Hesse, Grand Duke Hesse taken<br />
by Homelight April 2019</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-size: large;">Regal environments and celebrities reinforce seem to capture our attention. Some of us have been taught to desire this lifestyle. According to Dr. Frank Farley, a professor and psychologist at Temple University and a former American Psychology Association president, âWe all have dreams of wealth and fame and happiness and style and social influence and so on, which starts early with fairy tales and the way we raise our kids.â Even if we donât chose to live this way this belief is subconsciously present. Farley adds, â[These dreams] stay with us, to some extent, throughout our lives. Royals and other people, like Hollywood figures and Kardashian types keep this phenomenon alive.â<br /><br />On deck six of the <a href="https://www.ncl.com/cruise-ship/pearl?cid=PS_TSI_SHIPPRL_SHP_GOO-g_LEN_SRH__norwegian%20pearl_kwd-2705190878&kshid=_k_EAIaIQobChMIsKL73ZTN4QIVjsDACh218giMEAAYASAAEgLHIPD_BwE_k_&kwid=1893786&anchor=NA&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsKL73ZTN4QIVjsDACh218giMEAAYASAAEgLHIPD_BwE" target="_blank">Norwegian Pearl</a>, is the <a href="https://www.cruisecritic.com/photos/ships/norwegian-pearl-378/summer-palace-main-dining-room-391122/" target="_blank">Summer Palace Dining Room</a>. The decor was inspired by Russian Palaces. It features red, green, and gold colors, marbled columns and high windows that look out over the waters. The paintings that line the walls depict the Romanov family before their forced imprisonment and assassination. Many of the paintings are colorized reproductions from familiar black and white photographs of the young royalty. The food is served on china on top of white table linen. One can feel regal eating from a daily changing three course menu. <br /><br />Yet one painting caught my eye and made me feel yucky (see above). <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c1/c2/69/c1c269f12491e801962b720da6fde62b.jpg" target="_blank">The painting is of Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia. The paintings tag stated she was with Ernest Hesse, Grand Duke of Hesse. </a> Why was this man holding her arms this way? Why did he have his legs crossed around her? And, he was an older man. (I know todayâs standards.) There was nothing beyond the tag to put the painting into perspective.<br /><br />After the cruise, I discovered Ernest Hesse was a beloved Uncle. This didnât make the picture feel any better especially when there were other photographs of Uncle Ernie with the children the painter could have chosen from. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Tatiana was known to be the most organized and self assured of her sisters. During World War I, she was trained as a Russian Red Cross nurse. She was thought to be an efficient surgical nurse and tended to wounded officers at a hospital. Additionally, she organized a committee to help refugee from the war while continuing her nursing duties. When the family was imprisoned, Tatianaâs father would send her as a spokesperson to their guards. The painting doesnât depict this story </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMw4x9e5PBzgvp6UU4ZdpeBPn0UhbuguQTz7enshHazG5CQ0VrhqHcy-lcLrNxM_VgpmcnZ0HF1JIqGv7WDjBZs_zevIvX0GYlxsZu5S1EJx75EMl8RrdVqtp7EUd7o3fIyxfwGhxwcKU/s1600/Grand_Duchess_Tatiana_and_Dimitri_malama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="460" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMw4x9e5PBzgvp6UU4ZdpeBPn0UhbuguQTz7enshHazG5CQ0VrhqHcy-lcLrNxM_VgpmcnZ0HF1JIqGv7WDjBZs_zevIvX0GYlxsZu5S1EJx75EMl8RrdVqtp7EUd7o3fIyxfwGhxwcKU/s320/Grand_Duchess_Tatiana_and_Dimitri_malama.jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna <br />
wearing a Red Cross nursing uniform <br />
and Dmitri Yakovlevich Malama</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
of who Tatiana was. <br /><br />Perhaps the painting is asking viewers to dig deeper into Tatianaâs life. <br /><br /><i>âSofia Ivanovna Tyutcheva, one of the governesses for the girls, was horrified that Rasputin was permitted into the nursery while the girls were in their nightgowns. Tyutcheva wanted to barre him from the nursery. Tatiana, who was twelve at the time, feared her mother would be angered by Tyutcheva preventing him from coming into the nursery, and wrote to her about it. Even though she was soon fired, she told the story to other members of the family and they were scandalized. By all accounts, Rasputinâs visits to the children were innocent in nature. Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, Anastasiaâs paternal aunt, was especially horrified.â </i><br /><br />In Grand Duchess Xeniaâs diaries, she writes that Rasputin caresses the children in the nursery, even the two pre-teen princesses. She identifies this as inappropriate. Xenia is upset, but the childrenâs mother is so caught up in her grief over having a child with a medical disability -- can't hear her. I would also argue, the Tsarina was also caught up in social norms and believed Rasputinâs behavior as a religious figure to be as acceptable. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">In either case, Tatiana did not consent or have the power to consent to this type of touch. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Going back to the painting it tells the story even a princess canât escape an inappropriate touch. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Resources: </b> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">To learn more about Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and how to hold adults accountable see <a href="https://www.d2l.org/" target="_blank">Darkness 2 Light. </a><br /><br /><b>References:</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Azur, Helen. âTatiana Romanov. Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.â The Romanov Family.com 18 Aug. 2015 Retrieved 13 Apr. 2019 <a href="https://www.theromanovfamily.com/grand-duchess-tatiana-nikolaevna-of-russia/">https://www.theromanovfamily.com/grand-duchess-tatiana-nikolaevna-of-russia/</a></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Ducharme, Jamie. âWhy people are obsessed with the royals, according to psychologists.â Time Magazine. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 13 Apr. 2019 h<a href="http://time.com/5253199/royal-obsession-psychology/">ttp://time.com/5253199/royal-obsession-psychology/</a><br /><br />History of things. âThe Grand Duchess of Russia who was Rumoured to have escaped death, Anastasia Romanov.â 27 May 2017. Retrieved 13 Apr. 2019 <a href="https://historythings.com/grand-duchess-anastasia-romanov/">https://historythings.com/grand-duchess-anastasia-romanov/</a></span></div>
</div>
</div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-65338749192055546112018-10-20T06:57:00.000-07:002018-10-20T06:59:17.106-07:00Doing My Part with Small Steps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4o9_UemGfig6hMDVWM_0BehNmkVyqyNoRZEu7FSWbJpOfoPEIzn34mSz4Yw7PtW6zab6vmn4JaE-ab5r1LoajorCTtmls7B3mtPqNqF_pEkAskWy6QuECfrgPQfOeUs9dqgyz48LG5Y/s1600/Elizaveta_Bem_-_PostCard-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="460" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP4o9_UemGfig6hMDVWM_0BehNmkVyqyNoRZEu7FSWbJpOfoPEIzn34mSz4Yw7PtW6zab6vmn4JaE-ab5r1LoajorCTtmls7B3mtPqNqF_pEkAskWy6QuECfrgPQfOeUs9dqgyz48LG5Y/s400/Elizaveta_Bem_-_PostCard-4.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elizabeth Boehm (1843-1914) Postcard reads People stand for <br />
different things I stand with my friend</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">
â<i>Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach</i>.â ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes<br /><br />â<i>Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin</i>.â ~ Clarissa Pinkola EstĂ©s,<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/981745"> Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype</a> <br /><br /><br />One of the first feminist spirituality books I read was by <a href="http://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/">Clarissa Pinkola Estes</a>: Women who Run With the Wolves. It was a book that was flying off the shelf and several coworkers were reading it during lunch. The book attracted me, because Estes used myth and fairy tales (who doesnât like myth and fairy tales). The book was an awakening for me. It caused me to really question who I was as a woman back in 1992. <br /><br />In her essay for <a href="http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=548">Awakin.org. </a> Estes challenges us to fix what we can in our broken world. Today I find myself feeling overwhelmed with an increasing laundry list: environment, economy, housing, food scarcity⊠However, Estes encourages us to do small things like: showing up for our childrenâs events; meal training it for a friend who is shut in; and eating meatless Mondays. Yes, she acknowledges that there are really big problems. But, we need to focus on what âIâ the individual can do. One example is cleaning up the litter problem in your neighborhood. It is a daunting task to do all by yourself, but you can keep your lawn tidy. Her key message is to show up and to keep showing up. <br /><br />My dad walks about three miles a day every morning. Each day he takes along a trash bag and picks up the litter along his path. He has been doing this before it became a Swedish trend called Plogging. Dad follows John Muir hikerâs creed of âleaving nothing but footprints.â My point is Dad is doing what he can on his morning walks; and he keeps showing up. <br /><br />Estes discusses the importance of showing up. We are in relationship with each other. By doing what we can, our soulâs light inspires others. It is easy to show up during âgolden times,â she writes. But, we are even more needed during the stormy times. Your light inspires and helps another.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
###</div>
<br /><b>A Prayer</b><br /><br />By Clarissa Pinkola Estés,<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/965903"> The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die</a> <br /><br />Refuse to fall down<br />If you cannot refuse to fall down,<br />refuse to stay down.<br />If you cannot refuse to stay down,<br />lift your heart toward heaven,<br />and like a hungry beggar,<br />ask that it be filled.<br />You may be pushed down.<br />You may be kept from rising.<br />But no one can keep you from lifting your heart<br />toward heaven<br />only you.<br />It is in the middle of misery<br />that so much becomes clear.<br />The one who says nothing good<br />came of this,<br />is not yet listening.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiN_I3mp8HA-Nn54ViAmvM07bAD3QAigW3IZBJzbmXVj7t5bb6I_tkgQ0G8Myqrv-FeV3jPAGtWyJ5iWmHo2wMJSOt8AMHzIaduhuUVMJ8VqSr3-pEx9dbL0jYBQq4_60ZI3y-2oI4LA/s1600/pinkola+estes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="255" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFiN_I3mp8HA-Nn54ViAmvM07bAD3QAigW3IZBJzbmXVj7t5bb6I_tkgQ0G8Myqrv-FeV3jPAGtWyJ5iWmHo2wMJSOt8AMHzIaduhuUVMJ8VqSr3-pEx9dbL0jYBQq4_60ZI3y-2oI4LA/s200/pinkola+estes.jpg" width="137" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clarissa Pinkola Estes</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span><div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">###</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-ab4a435d-7fff-36c6-9c77-adfcafcde5f2"><span style="color: #181818; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I keep thinking Estes is all about kindness shared. I look on the news and see on my Facebook feed pictures of angry people and videos who care only about winning at any cost. I have to ask myself where is compassion and empathy for another? When I have asked a person who displays this type of behavior; they are demeaning and condescending to me. I find this ends up as a no win solution. Maybe that's the point it is a no win solution. And, if I really care about the issue I need to find other ways around it that doesn't involves them. These are the small steps I need to keep showing up for. </span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span>ARTUAL: Questions to journal about:</b><br /><br />What do I have control over?<br />Where can I make a difference?<br />Where can I make an impact and not get burnt out?<br />What are my values for living?<br />How can I stay true to my values with my beloveds? </span><br /><br /><b><br />Resource: </b><br /><br /><a href="https://medium.com/@kami_leon/13-reasons-why-you-should-read-women-who-run-with-the-wolves-instead-36435ea32b4">13 Reasons Why You Should Read âWomen Who Run With the Wolvesâ Instead by Kami Leon </a> (Cliff notes of the book)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pikola Estes, Clarissa (2018) We were Made for these times. <a href="http://www.ideachampions.com/heart/archives/2018/08/my_friends_do_n.shtml" target="_blank">The Heart of the Matter. </a></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-41811655457531485882018-10-06T05:17:00.000-07:002018-10-06T05:19:16.852-07:00#Believe prayers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5eBqJT9xeN86KNGDPj-_WInqRNHH_U1h93bY0mbtn9nMvzuKSMUkCcTxL8qrF6379gDhU0-QILtfJIPO9G_OTK7gjAjCh5YNBsiDMXSRuoAjEyeYvmijay5AjcJvP4U_GKx-kKcm_X08/s1600/green+copper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5eBqJT9xeN86KNGDPj-_WInqRNHH_U1h93bY0mbtn9nMvzuKSMUkCcTxL8qrF6379gDhU0-QILtfJIPO9G_OTK7gjAjCh5YNBsiDMXSRuoAjEyeYvmijay5AjcJvP4U_GKx-kKcm_X08/s1600/green+copper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5eBqJT9xeN86KNGDPj-_WInqRNHH_U1h93bY0mbtn9nMvzuKSMUkCcTxL8qrF6379gDhU0-QILtfJIPO9G_OTK7gjAjCh5YNBsiDMXSRuoAjEyeYvmijay5AjcJvP4U_GKx-kKcm_X08/s320/green+copper.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength."</i> ~ Hanna Gadsby, âNanetteâ</span></span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>âI can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.â </i>~ Maya Angelou</span></span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This past week really pulled me down. However, I chose Shiloh Sophiaâs call and put prayers into my art with each paint stroke (See above). I put green and copper into my year long painting. My prayers were for healing survivors, healing perpetrators, healing for those who believe and stand with survivors, and those who continue to victim blame. I prayed for a society in my lifetime that is free of unhealthy behaviors that hurt another. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />I work in the field of domestic and sexual violence. The local, state and national hotlines have increased since Thursday. Survivors are calling about old wounds or new hurts. Men are calling asking: what can they do? Iâve been sharing a starting list from <a href="https://www.mencanstoprape.org/images/stories/PDF/Handout_pdfs/what-men-can-do-final.pdf" target="_blank">Men Can Stop Rape</a>. <a href="https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/">Futures without Violence</a> is another good resource for both prevention and intervention. They have materials for different professions and different age groups. Their Starting Strong program has a checklist parents can take to their schools to look at policy and curriculums used to prevent bullying, sexual harassment and dating violence. If you work or volunteer with a youth serving organization, <a href="https://www.d2l.org/education/">Stewards of Children</a> offers a policy checklist and an on-line prevention training for adults to hold other adults accountable. <br /><br />If youâre a friend or family member of a survivor - BELIEVE!!!! Share the national hotline. They are also there to support you as a friend or a caregiver. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.rainn.org/">RAINN</a> - National Sexual Assault Hotline 1-800-656-HOPE.<br /><br />If you still donât know how to show support to a survivor. Check out <a href="https://youtu.be/HznVuCVQd10">Brene Brownâs video </a>on what is empathy. <br /><br />If you are a survivor - I am sorry this has happened to you. Your pain should not be mocked or laughed at nor should you be told âif it had been me I would ofâŠ.â I am sorry. <br /><br />There are professionals who are trauma trained and experienced in working with survivors. To get a listing contact your local rape crisis center. There are also other forms of trauma therapy available: yoga, theater, dance, singing, and art. <br /><br /><b>The Trough </b><br />by Judy Brown:<br />Read by Judy Brown. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EuHbwnw9B8M/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EuHbwnw9B8M?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></span><b id="docs-internal-guid-8d12e484-7fff-969a-78b5-fecc84e126c5" style="font-weight: normal;"></b>
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><b id="docs-internal-guid-8d12e484-7fff-969a-78b5-fecc84e126c5" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
</b><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<b id="docs-internal-guid-8d12e484-7fff-969a-78b5-fecc84e126c5" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My ARTUAL this new moonâŠ. Putting green and copper - healing brush strokes for the world. </span></span></span></b></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-8d12e484-7fff-969a-78b5-fecc84e126c5" style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"></span></b><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-size: large;"></span>Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-42489815342398708462018-09-15T07:55:00.001-07:002018-09-19T04:14:36.223-07:00Artist Creed with Jan Phillips<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDfH5sRCPpGsMqUOyansuPBW9MPfsNd-HK87HyFZ0DO0bMENXMuc2WjMCS91y2afg4DxGb1ImN-T2rsw2yGGcOWqUStEenOQV6QLOqVdcUO10uF0LHDsaz6sGFY-cgzsYsyCNDFCtVcdI/s1600/jan-phillips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="516" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDfH5sRCPpGsMqUOyansuPBW9MPfsNd-HK87HyFZ0DO0bMENXMuc2WjMCS91y2afg4DxGb1ImN-T2rsw2yGGcOWqUStEenOQV6QLOqVdcUO10uF0LHDsaz6sGFY-cgzsYsyCNDFCtVcdI/s320/jan-phillips.jpg" width="246" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jan Phillips</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-063e3914-7fff-2cbb-81b2-f25fe756a026" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 15.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b></b>
<b></b>
<i>âOur stories contain the answers to each othersâ questions. What I cannot find in searching through the riches and rubble of my own life may become apparent to me in the witnessing of yours. Itâs through our stories that we begin to name ourselves, to say who we are under all the social trappings, and to emerge from those trappings like a butterfly from a chrysalis. We are midwives, in a way, to each otherâs rebirth.â </i><b>~ Jan Phillips</b></span></div>
<b></b><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://www.womenwriting.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Women Writing for a Change</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a 10 week creative writing circle. The writing circle is an open space for women to celebrate and nurture each other. Before passing a candle around to say our names into the circle, we open with a poem to inspire our evening of free writing and sharing. This is my second year attending the Columbus circle.
</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Last week I was struck by Jan Phillips poem. I believe this is what artuals do for us and to others who look, read or feel our work. </span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br />
<h3 dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Artistâs Creed</span></h3>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Jan Phillips (1994)</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I believe I am worth the time it takes to create</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> whatever I feel called to create. </span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe that my work is worthy of its own space</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">which is worthy of the name, Sacred.</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe that when I enter this space, I have the right</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to work in silence, uninterruptedly, for as long as I choose.</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe that the moment I open myself to the gifts of the Muse</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I open myself to the Source of All Creation</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and become One with the Mother of Life Itself.</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe that my work is joyful, useful and constantly changing,</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">flowing through me like a river with no beginning and no </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">End</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe that what it is I am called to do</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will make itself known when I have made myself ready</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe that the time I spend creating my art</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is as precious as the time I spend giving to others.</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe that what truly matters in the making of art</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is not what the final piece looks like or sounds like,</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not what it is worth or not worth, but what</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">newness gets added to the universe in the process</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the piece itself becoming.</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I believe that I am not alone in my attempts to create,</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and that once I begin the work, settle into the strangeness,</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the words will take shape, the form find life, and the spirit take </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flight.</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe that as the Muse gives to me,</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So does she deserve from me:</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> faith, mindfulness and enduring commitment.</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 31.05px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resources:</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 31.05px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jan Phillips website: <a href="http://janphillips.com/about-jan/">http://janphillips.com/about-jan/</a></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-51094079266408813682018-08-23T15:35:00.001-07:002018-08-24T05:00:17.744-07:00ARTUAL with Allison Bechdel and exploring hurt and pain<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_85AF3JMII_syGgIJeRqAAmyYsGmq6FnJJK7JyeI4n-NeKmPnQHQJb1EE5jlsb6v7H9uMk2T6DUhBB6TLCf-lxicuenHEtgilPm4B2_fXDG16sAXZenOV304HUKwd5921JiugsFtl5I/s1600/AlisonFeaturedImage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="610" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_85AF3JMII_syGgIJeRqAAmyYsGmq6FnJJK7JyeI4n-NeKmPnQHQJb1EE5jlsb6v7H9uMk2T6DUhBB6TLCf-lxicuenHEtgilPm4B2_fXDG16sAXZenOV304HUKwd5921JiugsFtl5I/s400/AlisonFeaturedImage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alison Bechdel </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<h4>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âI'm not that good of a drawer. I don't know how people just draw stuff out of their head. I'm always creating schemes. If I have to draw someone sitting in a chair, I have to go find a chair, sit in it, and take a picture of myself sitting in it.â ~ Allison Bechdel </span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âWhat would happen if we spoke the truth?â ~ Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic<br /><br />âThe writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story.â ~ Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother? </span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first time I came across Alison Bechdelâs name it wasnât for her art or writing or the popular musical: <a href="http://funhomebroadway.com/">The Fun Home</a>, but a rule associated with her name: The Bechdel Test. The Bechdel Test was popularized by cartoonist Alison Bechdel in her comic strip called Dykes to Watch Out For: The Rule (1985). What many people donât know is the 10 frame strip was inspired by a conversation she had with a friend, Liz Wallace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For those not familiar with the Bechdel Test, it has three criteria: 1) it has to have at least two women in it, who 2) talk to each other, about 3) something besides a man. Since the publication, the Test has expanded to state the two women have to have a name. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bechdelâs 10 frame strip, shook things up. It gave people a tool for looking at the media critically. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As an educator, I use the <a href="https://seejane.org/">Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media</a> quite frequently when talking about gender stereotypes. In 2014, the Institute reviewed 120 films produced internationally from 2010 - 2013. The found only 31% of the named characters were females, and only 23% of the films had a female protagonist or co-protagonist. <a href="https://pudding.cool/2017/03/film-dialogue/index.html">Hanah Anderson and Matt Daniels </a>took movie gender analysis to the next level by analyzing 2,005 commercially successful films. They found out that 82% of the films, men had two of the top speaking roles, while women had the most dialogue in on 22% of films. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her test was my initial framework used in my graduate work. Specifically, choosing books to review how healthy women's friendships are shown in literature. My pile of literature was small compared to the mountain of books illustrating how women tear each other down. Many of the books went to the mountain because the main character didn't have women friends or they only talked about romance. </span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What the Living Do </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by <a href="http://www.mariehowe.com/">Marie Howe</a></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some </span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">utensil probably fell down there.<br />And the Drano wonât work but smells dangerous, and the </span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">crusty dishes have piled up<br /> <br />waiting for the plumber I still havenât called. This is the </span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">everyday we spoke of.<br />Itâs winter again: the skyâs a deep, headstrong blue, and the </span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sunlight pours through<br /> <br />the open living-room windows because the heatâs on too high in </span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">here and I canât turn it off.<br />For weeks now, driving, or dropping a bag of groceries in the </span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">street, the bag breaking,<br /> <br />Iâve been thinking: This is what the living do. And yesterday, </span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hurrying along those<br />wobbly bricks in the Cambridge sidewalk, spilling my coffee </span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">down my wrist and sleeve,<br /> <br />I thought it again, and again later, when buying a hairbrush: </span></span></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" dir="ltr" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is it.<br />Parking. Slamming the car door shut in the cold. What you </span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">called that yearning.<br /> <br />What you finally gave up. We want the spring to come and the </span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">winter to pass. We want<br />whoever to call or not call, a letter, a kissâwe want more and </span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">more and then more of it.<br /> <br />But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of </span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">myself in the window glass,<br />say, the window of the corner video store, and Iâm gripped by a </span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cherishing so deep<br /> <br />for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat </span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that Iâm speechless:<br />I am living. I remember you.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span>
</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I keep coming back to how Alison Bechdel was inspired and that she continues to act on this type of inspiration. Much of Alisonâs art is influenced by her personal life, family secrets, pain and trauma that she carries. Somehow she courageously picks up the pen and draws. These acts allow her to contemplate and heal. I believe that when she shares them with us, it also allows us a place to heal and talk about heart issues. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How often are we inspired by a conversation with a friend or a stranger? Or are inspired to use art to heal from pain and trauma - or share our art with others to help others heal? How often do we act on the inspiration? And, what holds us back from picking up the pen or the paint brush or mixing bowl or flower seeds or the...? </span></div>
<h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br />Resource:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7TWm2CPZCo">Inked Interview with Alison Bechdel</a> March 27, 2017 - Alison talks about her artwork.<br /><a href="http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/about">Dykes to Watch Out for.</a> Alison Bechdel (Website)<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26135825-fun-home">Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic</a> (2007) Alison Bechdel<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566956-are-you-my-mother">Are you my mother? </a> (2012) Alison Bechdel </h3>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-31351590961575955402018-08-07T18:56:00.000-07:002018-08-24T04:59:59.682-07:00ARTUAL with Anita Hill: Making a Better World with Courage to Speak Out<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ncFsEoM2X4tPtqlnkZ_8qZvT_X1VdJqsiPHTLirjiBQfXkyKQKoN68wD71Nx1OgCRtuXCMdhF2BLPd0Txe_h9EBBvMWBeCLshUwB-J2WuB24z_yQf2QKG6vfIplGmNoqajNbGrOvC8k/s1600/anita+hill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: left; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="293" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ncFsEoM2X4tPtqlnkZ_8qZvT_X1VdJqsiPHTLirjiBQfXkyKQKoN68wD71Nx1OgCRtuXCMdhF2BLPd0Txe_h9EBBvMWBeCLshUwB-J2WuB24z_yQf2QKG6vfIplGmNoqajNbGrOvC8k/s400/anita+hill.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anita Hill Photo by Victoria Will/Invasion/AP<a href="https://www.victoriawill.com/" target="_blank"> See Victoria's art</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Most of us have everything we need to get through a crisis; we just have to tap into it." ~ Anita Hill<br /><br /> "Women who accuse men, particularly powerful men, of harassment are often confronted with the reality of the men's sense that they are more important than women, as a group." ~ <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1979834.Speaking_Truth_to_Power">Anita Hill, Speaking Truth to Power</a><br /><br />"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other." ~ Anita Hill</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUVxc4mB_euaiyo4jmmI_tkgKsf_fEnO0m3K8OFbHa2eCFQe9GgsCrUgfPxhyKcXBHciVMimyyviXKWbnmoZoNeAwpBaXcIckjKtpVmsTrMHLWUc-X6qEGOyhOxiNoZiTYVoz4hMwyUFE/s1600/nine-to-five.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="344" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUVxc4mB_euaiyo4jmmI_tkgKsf_fEnO0m3K8OFbHa2eCFQe9GgsCrUgfPxhyKcXBHciVMimyyviXKWbnmoZoNeAwpBaXcIckjKtpVmsTrMHLWUc-X6qEGOyhOxiNoZiTYVoz4hMwyUFE/s320/nine-to-five.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nine to Five: Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin (1980)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My
local park shows movies on the big screen. T, Z, and I joined friends to
watch </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080319/reference"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.0pt;">â9
to 5, (1980).â</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> For those unfamiliar with the movie, the plot uses humor to expose how
sexual harassment is played out at the office. Lily Tomlinâs
character had her work stolen by her boss; Jane Fondaâs character was mocked at
the Xerox by the same boss; and Dolly Partonâs character, the boss looks at her
as sexual candy rather than his secretary. The three women are thrown
together and plot to get even with âthe boss.â The film is the 20th highest-gross
paying films for comedy.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">After
watching the 9 to 5, I began reflecting on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarana_Burke" target="_blank">Tarana Burke</a>, #metoo, and other
movies during my young adult life that satirized sexual harassment:
Grease, Toosie, Sixteen CandlesâŠ. It became an enlightening moment for
me; I couldnât name any films that showed women of color experiencing sexual
harassment. I began to wonder where were the mainstream films about
women of color experiencing sexual harassment? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ncFsEoM2X4tPtqlnkZ_8qZvT_X1VdJqsiPHTLirjiBQfXkyKQKoN68wD71Nx1OgCRtuXCMdhF2BLPd0Txe_h9EBBvMWBeCLshUwB-J2WuB24z_yQf2QKG6vfIplGmNoqajNbGrOvC8k/s1600/anita+hill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It
is 1991, ten years after the film came out, and Anita Hill becomes a national
figure. Hill accuses US Supreme Court nominee, Clarence Thomas, her boss
of sexually harassing her. Most of the public criticized her behavior rather
than Thomasâ behavior. What I found most disturbing, the public stating Hill liked
his behavior otherwise she would have spoken out sooner. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The public labeled her either as a liar or
truth teller.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh0ar4fnP3WSeoVnlvZdNVehpmoWPrqY4GQMOfoQ5C0o7_nlLWH7dpGUR3n1qB5gj67lQk6n643__K51zribLl-pssHhXbFbaib3FWOwUzF99Z3XE7zMWqTTuRzZ1Gs98ROUGmKoRX-sw/s1600/171203-allen-anita-hill-tease_j636fh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: left; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="1480" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh0ar4fnP3WSeoVnlvZdNVehpmoWPrqY4GQMOfoQ5C0o7_nlLWH7dpGUR3n1qB5gj67lQk6n643__K51zribLl-pssHhXbFbaib3FWOwUzF99Z3XE7zMWqTTuRzZ1Gs98ROUGmKoRX-sw/s320/171203-allen-anita-hill-tease_j636fh.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Anita Hill Photo by Lyne Lucien/Daily Beast <a href="http://www.lynelucien.com/" target="_blank">See Lyne's art </a></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="color: #000120;"></span></u></b><br /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
think back to the movies. The dominant narrative (or plot line) showed
repetitively white women experiencing sexual harassment at work or at school.
Hill was a black woman presenting the public another story about sexual
harassment. A story many werenât familiar with: a black woman being sexually
harassed. Unlike the movies, fictional accounts most likely based on real
life, Hillâs story was real. I continue to wonder why most of the public
resisted her story. I wonder how I, a white woman, continue to
perpetuate and resist this narrative for women of color? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Calling on All Silent Minorities<br />June Jordan, 1936 - 2002</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"></span><br />
<div>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
<div class="view view-poems view-id-poems view-display-id-poem_author_dob_dod view-dom-id-9d2bae1367a3ceaf15042ab1af2da0de" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 1260px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div class="view-content" style="clear: none; display: block; height: 62.25px; visibility: visible;">
<div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last clearfix" style="clear: none; display: block; height: 62.25px; visibility: visible;">
<div class="views-field views-field-nothing" style="clear: none; display: block; height: 46.5px; visibility: visible;">
<h2 class="subheading" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 31.5px; margin-bottom: 15.75px; margin-top: 15.75px; padding-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span class="field-content" style="clear: none; display: inline; height: auto; visibility: visible;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">HEY</span></span></h2>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; padding-right: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: 504px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div class="field-items" style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
<div class="field-item even" style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
CâMON</div>
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
COME OUT</div>
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
</div>
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
WHEREVER YOU ARE</div>
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
</div>
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
WE NEED TO HAVE THIS MEETING</div>
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
AT THIS TREE</div>
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
</div>
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
AINâ EVEN BEEN</div>
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
PLANTED</div>
<div style="font-family: poets electra web,times new roman,Times,serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 0px; width: 504px;">
YET</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<i>Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan</i> (2005). Copper Canyon Press. Learn more about this poet <a href="http://www.junejordan.com/" target="_blank">click here</a> or purchase her book at <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781556592348" target="_blank">IndiBound</a></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<u><span style="color: #000120;"></span></u><br /></div>
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9-zxIAnWs7Q_FPvHGuvDvN61I7NvB0I63mdY8k0ojYUELBdMr_IdsP1i1gjL6wpEX-fg_o717DFbukv49NYYlcI0_6bizaRkQJeKCn1KjDynrHUqCnaFxuaLyZyEXDJ799MR4ZAoYSI/s1600/Hill%252520Bradford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF9-zxIAnWs7Q_FPvHGuvDvN61I7NvB0I63mdY8k0ojYUELBdMr_IdsP1i1gjL6wpEX-fg_o717DFbukv49NYYlcI0_6bizaRkQJeKCn1KjDynrHUqCnaFxuaLyZyEXDJ799MR4ZAoYSI/s320/Hill%252520Bradford.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Artist Mark Bradford and Brandeis Professor Anita Hill pose in front of Bradford's painting, "Sea Monster."</span></div>
<div>
Photo from <a href="http://www.brandeis.edu/rose/visit/index.html" target="_blank">Rose Art Museum</a></div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Anita
Hill rises and continues to rise. Since 1991, Anita Hill has become a
spokeswoman and champion against sexual harassment and advocating for womenâs
equality. She also sits on the Rose Art Museum, MA. Hill has been having an
ongoing conversation with painter Mark Bradford about race and politics and how
this is related to content and form. He is looks at the world through a
micro lens and paints them onto canvas whereas she looks at world on a macro
lens helps change policy at state and national levels. Each are using their own
art form (painting and policy writing) to bring about awareness for reform and
healing around oppression in society. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Artual <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Action:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519592255;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This resource can be implemented or adapted for a staff meeting or used
for individual self-reflection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519592255;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Name and reflect on the movies you have seen that uses humor/satire
reveal sexual harassment or sexual violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519592255;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519594912;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Are you aware of any films depicting sexual violence happening to women
of color?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How is sexual violence
depicted?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519592255;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519594912;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">View Anita, the documentary or </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519592255;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519594912;"><span class="watch-title"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Anita Hill Testimony: Clarence
Thomas Second Hearing Day 1 (1991).</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519592255;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519594912;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you believe the dominate
narrative at that time had an effect on the reception of Anita Hillâs testimony?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about if it were to happen today?</span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519592255;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519594912;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What are the challenges, risks and opportunities
associated with using humor to shed light on oppression issues?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is/what are the difference(s) if it is happening
to a person of color?</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519592255;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519594912;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span></span></div>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519594912;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk519592255;"></span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Resources:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Anita. (2014) Director Freida Lee
Mock. Documentary. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="watch-title"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV2bxoIIAzI"><span lang="EN" style="border: none 1.0pt; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">Anita Hill Testimony: Clarence Thomas Second Hearing Day
1 (1991)</span></a><span class="watch-title"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span class="watch-title"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span class="watch-title"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Anita Hill on the Thomas hearings, 25 years later:
âI would do it againâ(7 Apr. 2016) </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-e3cRXhCGg"><span lang="EN" style="border: none 1.0pt; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">PBS News Hour.</span></a><span class="watch-title"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><a href="https://livestream.com/accounts/5045103/events/4182153/videos/94951733/player"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.0pt;">Conversations between Mark Bradford and Anita
Hill</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">. (14 Apr, 2018) Hammer Museum, Los
Angeles, CA </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Woman Who Created #MeToo Long
Before Hashtags. (17 Oct. 2017) Sandra E. Garcia. </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/us/me-too-movement-tarana-burke.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.0pt;">New York Times.</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When Black Women's Stories Of Sexual
Abuse Are Excluded From The National Narrative. (3 Dec. 2017) Lulu Garcia
Navarro.</span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/12/03/568133048/women-of-color-and-sexual-harassment"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.0pt;"> National Public Radio</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The #MeToo Movement Looks Different
For Women Of Color. Here Are 10 Stories. (2, Jan. 2018) Jessica Prois and
Carolina Moreno. </span><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-of-color-me-too_us_5a442d73e4b0b0e5a7a4992c"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.0pt;">Huffington Post</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Why few women of color in wave of
accusers? âStakes higherâ. (18 Nov., 2017) Errin Haines Whack. </span><a href="https://apnews.com/34a278ca43e24c5587c911ead5fac67c"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.0pt;">AP News. </span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For African American rape victims, a
culture of silence. (20 July, 2004) Gayle Pollard-Terry. </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/bv-news-aarapes072004-story.html"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.0pt;">Los Angeles Times. </span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Using Humor to Expose the
Ridiculous. </span><a href="https://www.newtactics.org/node/256"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">New Tactics in Human Rights</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sample Learning Tool on Dominant
Narratives (Self Reflective or Small Group Questions) </span><a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/2017/08/24/dominant-narratives/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">University of Michigan. </span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<br />Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-69026460699139014692018-07-31T04:54:00.002-07:002018-07-31T18:31:37.533-07:00ARTUAL with Jennifer Higdon<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHmpcZfANFjGl4L57yN1zEJzvtt0pV4y6rI6EJhGHGJPS7hcKZeygiD_rKtqcZSy_1mLihVg2jcukDYzhPd9YUkW7i5bAS3H1o1OcRtkX66v5HyOWultkWnzJE86X8a3NZDfIZubJXMCE/s1600/HigdonJennifer900px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="900" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHmpcZfANFjGl4L57yN1zEJzvtt0pV4y6rI6EJhGHGJPS7hcKZeygiD_rKtqcZSy_1mLihVg2jcukDYzhPd9YUkW7i5bAS3H1o1OcRtkX66v5HyOWultkWnzJE86X8a3NZDfIZubJXMCE/s320/HigdonJennifer900px.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>
Jennifer Higdon and her cat Beau, </div>
<div>
photograph by Candice DiCarlo <a href="http://candacedicarlo.com/" target="_blank">(See her work click here)</a></div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-02cf9970-f019-ec2d-35eb-fc6a8f959c27" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font: 400 16px/22.08px Times New Roman; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When anyone is creating anything, it has no choice but to be in that stream. The art I create and the art my colleagues create is part of it. But the question is: how long will it last in the stream? I think of it really as an enormous river, with its shores very distant from each other, and only time will tell what's going to last in the end. It seems to me that all music of our time is connected, but I never think about where I am in the river or how I would be placed by others inside of it.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ~ <a href="http://jenniferhigdon.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer Higdon.</a> </span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most Classical âtop 50 music listsâ are made up of male composers who are of European descent. Dead, they still have must have great agents working for them. These guys continue to get the majority of air time. In the <a href="http://www.bsomusic.org/stories/the-data-behind-the-2016-2017-orchestra-season/" target="_blank">US 2016-2017</a> concert season, male composers of European descent made up ~ 98% of the work played in symphony halls. It is a continued struggle for women and people of color to get their works heard. </span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T and I will be heading to Cleveland in April 2019. Jennifer Higdonâs work </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9JiGCkyN-0" target="_blank">Blue Cathedral</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> will be performed by the Cleveland Orchestra. Iâve heard her piece played on the radio several time, but not live. I want to do my part for supporting women artists by showing up.</span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue Cathedral</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a work written in memory of Higdonâs brother who died of cancer. In it you hear a dialogue between flute and clarinet. The instruments are the ones she and her brother played. Listening to the two instruments go back and forth, reminds me of the dialogues Iâve had with siblings both real and imagined. When I listen to this piece, I am reminded of Copland's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&v=iya9WPIhxsw" target="_blank">Appalachian Spring</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Bernstein's<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DROkQJc_F0" target="_blank"> âMake Our Gardensâ Growâ </a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DROkQJc_F0" target="_blank">Candide</a> -- </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">uplifting melodies that are fresh and full of hope. In the space of 10 minutes, Higdon takes us to a place of refuge, a sacred thin place to commune with our ancestors and the divine. </span></div>
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br /></div>
Resource:<br />
O'Bannon, Ricky. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(31, Oct. 2016). </span>Data Behind the 2016-2017 Orchestra Season. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. retrieved 31, July, 2018. <a href="http://www.bsomusic.org/stories/the-data-behind-the-2016-2017-orchestra-season/" target="_blank">http://www.bsomusic.org/stories/the-data-behind-the-2016-2017-orchestra-season/ </a><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-42176746319345721342018-06-10T18:18:00.000-07:002018-06-10T18:18:08.668-07:00Artual (Art + ritual) for living Wendy Hollender<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5R8WL8xmLgFcqf5l8DlBULdahGUBgCMhAe7ntcGEV0dXzzJdJOlWELu5pTHIwCrafK24vwf-adB_fJdpXscet3xyC6XjBLTD29VCIZUShUugMPwFBbHDgPf7pQi_TxEMZUrHhi9NMUPE/s1600/Wendy.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5R8WL8xmLgFcqf5l8DlBULdahGUBgCMhAe7ntcGEV0dXzzJdJOlWELu5pTHIwCrafK24vwf-adB_fJdpXscet3xyC6XjBLTD29VCIZUShUugMPwFBbHDgPf7pQi_TxEMZUrHhi9NMUPE/s1600/Wendy.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wendy Hollender Drawing</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">âA weed is but an unloved flower.â </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">â </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/186471.Ella_Wheeler_Wilcox" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">âIt was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.â </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">â </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/615274.Kate_Morton" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">Kate Morton</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">, </span><span id="quote_book_link_3407877" style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3448086" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">The Forgotten Garden</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">âGardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.â </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">â </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7973.Eudora_Welty" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">Eudora Welty</a></span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG-K869qYjeCh67F-aFyaVA_1g5zNkOw6vlB0LpdzK9Fva7xs62LwQcXMBNb6Rs7uAPmWzf6KvVEbAD5fyZ_Sp5wr_05aVtXOSpVmyfuYZfacTwBipq8Y_zmO43qULkrYEJK8oP3Nqc6o/s1600/botanical+drawing+oak.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="375" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG-K869qYjeCh67F-aFyaVA_1g5zNkOw6vlB0LpdzK9Fva7xs62LwQcXMBNb6Rs7uAPmWzf6KvVEbAD5fyZ_Sp5wr_05aVtXOSpVmyfuYZfacTwBipq8Y_zmO43qULkrYEJK8oP3Nqc6o/s320/botanical+drawing+oak.png" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acorn by Wendy Hollender</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A month ago, while I was at my writing conference, T planted tomatoes and peppers. T had grown them from our southern window over the last two months. Saddly my worries came true. I was afraid they wouldn't make it out in the community garden. I wasn't concerned about the last frost date in Ohio (Motherâs Day Weekend), but the heavy rains or lack of rain. Baby plants are fragile. The poor things were taken out by a hail storm.</span><div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I love spring in Ohio. The trees are white and purple with blossoms and last week some trees glowed with a green mist: buds about to burst into leaves. In April, T and I had planted potatoes, onions, salad food, and peas. T finds the gradual covering over of potato shoots meditative. Iâm in the garden experience for the eating of beans and peas off the vine. The garden is thriving in June and unusually un-weedly for us. </span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />Several weeks ago, I watched an interview with <a href="http://www.drawingincolor.com/">Wendy Hollender</a>, a botanical artist, teacher, and author of <a href="https://www.drawbotanical.com/product/foraging-a-field-guide-and-wild-food-cookbook/">Foraging & Feasting; A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook</a>. Her medium of choice is coloured pencils and uses watercolour as an underpainting. See above is one of her drawings -- very realistic. She is a teacher who puts her students at easy, because she taught viewers her method to draw an acorn. However, what really interested me was her dedication to a plant per year.<br /><br />Wendy described how she chooses a plant or tree to study for the year. She introduces herself in the fall and gives a gratitude offering to the plant. This is a plant she will visit daily on her walk. Wendy next showed the viewers several pages of her oak tree study that moved through the seasons. The fall showed a branch with leaves in various stages of drying out and nutmeg and cinnamon colors. There were several acorns and around the drawings questions: How do the leaves change and why? How many oak trees are there in the world? How old to they get? She treats these as interview questions to get to know the plant better.<br /><br /><b>Artual</b><br /><br />Get outside and adopt a plant or tree for the season. Provide an offering to it and say hi. If you are bold sketch the plant and ask questions. On the red line, share the name of the plant or tree you have adopted. <br /><br /><b>Resources</b><br /><br />See Wendy in action in a One Minute Video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNXLKNzcizI">âHow to Draw a Cherry Tomato.â</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u8Lawkq7mw">âHow to draw an acornâ</a><br /><br /></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
</div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-27475699821662437232018-06-03T14:24:00.002-07:002018-06-04T06:31:27.015-07:00Soulandalas: Coursera Final Project<br />
<br />
This is my artwork I created for Healing in the Arts offered by <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/healing-with-the-arts">Coursera</a>. Following my soulandalas you will find a narrative of how I created these pictures. <br />
<br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_0x1uzvUlbTirlMUwe-47YPA-0LWpOETkzg0PJtlNsvEgFnybPtl9ku4PLUB7jNYGtQLTjmfG6oWuV_SaX3AP1jreryM9GxbnX4Wt86u9Bg1D_NeiXHioGPb790IlepLiLUlQ21fkE9s/s1600/JOY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_0x1uzvUlbTirlMUwe-47YPA-0LWpOETkzg0PJtlNsvEgFnybPtl9ku4PLUB7jNYGtQLTjmfG6oWuV_SaX3AP1jreryM9GxbnX4Wt86u9Bg1D_NeiXHioGPb790IlepLiLUlQ21fkE9s/s320/JOY.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joy<br />
<div align="center">
</div>
<div align="center">
âWhen you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/875661.Rumi" saprocessedanchor="true">Rumi</a> </div>
<div align="left">
</div>
<div align="left">
âI want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/425914.Shauna_Niequist" saprocessedanchor="true">Shauna Niequist</a></div>
<div align="left">
ï»ż</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJAKqDNvU7yHjan2Ous8fmKCXjDWCEMZv8SwtE5EQu0MCHoDyAeUlyjxH1rx19VPus-iw23ah5oC3iwQuwTx2qs-MwfqxqAhqufyaVp1apVAPQvhFiR_IQLDt9Sxo9T_G6H9mQLQgGqs/s1600/Connected.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJAKqDNvU7yHjan2Ous8fmKCXjDWCEMZv8SwtE5EQu0MCHoDyAeUlyjxH1rx19VPus-iw23ah5oC3iwQuwTx2qs-MwfqxqAhqufyaVp1apVAPQvhFiR_IQLDt9Sxo9T_G6H9mQLQgGqs/s320/Connected.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Connected<br />
<div align="center">
</div>
<div align="center">
âWe cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.â<br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1624.Herman_Melville">Herman Melville</a> </div>
<div align="center">
</div>
<div align="center">
âI define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/162578.Bren_Brown">BrenĂ© Brown</a> </div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYR-F2948csIDttJyNCllHAnwulI8TrbIIfq1XXC59QPvE38XxncjthaXBUhdGm5-3DG4Sd0IOpKxcjWGnbYeyS3cJuGCtKhAJlexuR8MiSD1IS9nn5itu-AdcPMibGu4FrBkkQ1-l_I/s1600/Confidence.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYR-F2948csIDttJyNCllHAnwulI8TrbIIfq1XXC59QPvE38XxncjthaXBUhdGm5-3DG4Sd0IOpKxcjWGnbYeyS3cJuGCtKhAJlexuR8MiSD1IS9nn5itu-AdcPMibGu4FrBkkQ1-l_I/s320/Confidence.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Confidence</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: center;">
âWhen someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.â Karen E. Quinones Mille</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
âBecause one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2622245.Lao_Tzu" saprocessedanchor="true">Lao Tzu</a> </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
âOnce we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spiritâ <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10547.E_E_Cummings" saprocessedanchor="true">E.E. Cummings</a> </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
âRisk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." (Journal entry, 14 October 1922)â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45712.Katherine_Mansfield" saprocessedanchor="true">Katherine Mansfield</a>, <span id="quote_book_link_188093"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2195684">Journal of Katherine Mansfield</a> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<u><span style="color: #0066cc;"> </span></u> </div>
âLook well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17212.Marcus_Aurelius" saprocessedanchor="true">Marcus Aurelius</a>, <span id="quote_book_link_30659"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/31010">Meditations</a></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnOGT6plLKhdu_QyBdzRM7e3kB9mPP6aGp4X7lyllR1G0zBDKy70SWdiYgaCa670uNhc__fG5iC9IvXTQLlHcNVLbsdeux7KBf5ZMNywdecx6yIwpve2NQXUUYN9pLnDkP2RRKBQLnUA/s1600/Hope.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnOGT6plLKhdu_QyBdzRM7e3kB9mPP6aGp4X7lyllR1G0zBDKy70SWdiYgaCa670uNhc__fG5iC9IvXTQLlHcNVLbsdeux7KBf5ZMNywdecx6yIwpve2NQXUUYN9pLnDkP2RRKBQLnUA/s320/Hope.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hope<br />
<br />
âHold fast to dreams,<br />
For if dreams die<br />
Life is a broken-winged bird,<br />
That cannot fly.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/36910.Langston_Hughes" saprocessedanchor="true">Langston Hughes</a> <br />
<br />
âHope is the thing with feathers <br />
That perches in the soul <br />
And sings the tune without the words <br />
And never stops at all.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7440.Emily_Dickinson" saprocessedanchor="true">Emily Dickinson</a> </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU-dEdGn-BFdGL3DUreVu6oW1RJPfxSXxReoeu1D7wMlut_8ikD3lCj5l5b1e8xxIy08z0HIeytWFlocP4hAIB7P9sBwvdEQbmyKhcQoNiMfglIx6AaLVZQsKBKc6ujZUhAYxPlYs2-KQ/s1600/Divine+mystery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU-dEdGn-BFdGL3DUreVu6oW1RJPfxSXxReoeu1D7wMlut_8ikD3lCj5l5b1e8xxIy08z0HIeytWFlocP4hAIB7P9sBwvdEQbmyKhcQoNiMfglIx6AaLVZQsKBKc6ujZUhAYxPlYs2-KQ/s320/Divine+mystery.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Divine Mystery<br />
<br />
âBecause youâre a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/79905.Doreen_Virtue" saprocessedanchor="true">Doreen Virtue</a> <br />
<br />
âWe can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/566.Paulo_Coelho" saprocessedanchor="true">Paulo Coelho</a>, <span id="quote_book_link_816720"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/13855759">The Witch of Portobello</a> </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWnfbwuq5HQDTOBtxGntkv6J2dVAAUxVLJIuYnixInP56-_wax2hMick0YBnVD1pmDBS9j1eaJn3P9PxnAWn2nC24tokb1XYM8mMGeIk4EKz-8zbQTyPVeBzWXDTp5Ofij9qg3r8c694k/s1600/Laughter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWnfbwuq5HQDTOBtxGntkv6J2dVAAUxVLJIuYnixInP56-_wax2hMick0YBnVD1pmDBS9j1eaJn3P9PxnAWn2nC24tokb1XYM8mMGeIk4EKz-8zbQTyPVeBzWXDTp5Ofij9qg3r8c694k/s320/Laughter.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laughter<br />
<br />
âI love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/692403.Audrey_Hepburn">Audrey Hepburn</a> <br />
<br />
âI don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3503.Maya_Angelou">Maya Angelou</a> <br />
<br />
âLife is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5350.L_M_Montgomery">L.M. Montgomery</a>, <span id="quote_book_link_8127"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3464264">Anne of Green Gables</a> </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgix31dku49ZNFCEc3B5JJjW-uJJxPUzzk7NvUmQ1GNmEnj7Lwifw8bcgCjfM4WUbXhEQMZQocojX0mPkVEZZirJkbFDRVjazkVtswmmmsc4OUbQFzL6AauDhZ7Su0Zi2Ua6zMb8SYHc6E/s1600/Self-Compassion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgix31dku49ZNFCEc3B5JJjW-uJJxPUzzk7NvUmQ1GNmEnj7Lwifw8bcgCjfM4WUbXhEQMZQocojX0mPkVEZZirJkbFDRVjazkVtswmmmsc4OUbQFzL6AauDhZ7Su0Zi2Ua6zMb8SYHc6E/s320/Self-Compassion.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Self Compassion<br />
<br />
âRemember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasnât worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/74538.Louise_L_Hay">Louise L. Hay</a>, <span id="quote_book_link_129603"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/874208">You Can Heal Your Life</a> </span><br />
<br />
âTalk to yourself like a cherished friend. Treat yourself with love and care. You are perfect, just as you are.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5162049.Amy_Leigh_Mercree">Amy Leigh Mercree</a>, <span id="quote_book_link_32284038"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/52911636">The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart</a> </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHILcV_ti3cmUMULwLjp87HKK3B9QAysth1jmMu_zvRp6xIai926Bb-l1B4E3ycQpol06xpRJvBAE5foUJWQP_P1HCI2m2jJQinPAOkhLOhNsDXirvrsyUs22gWFgZPWi_piDV-LnxFK8/s1600/Strength.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHILcV_ti3cmUMULwLjp87HKK3B9QAysth1jmMu_zvRp6xIai926Bb-l1B4E3ycQpol06xpRJvBAE5foUJWQP_P1HCI2m2jJQinPAOkhLOhNsDXirvrsyUs22gWFgZPWi_piDV-LnxFK8/s320/Strength.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strength<br />
<br />
âNothing can dim the light which shines from within.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3503.Maya_Angelou">Maya Angelou</a> <br />
<br />
âStrength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5810891.Mahatma_Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a> <br />
<br />
âLook well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17212.Marcus_Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a>, <span id="quote_book_link_30659"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/31010">Meditations</a> </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVef7Dmlo7K5OzYfzhVRVvzQuzKJjFs1UvtOOfw0WVr-ZfF7iNgdu4ouu2vidbti7lHqaC-dLQ8dD0IO2E70ftuZup73R2zlYi9GkMJ4CQon0QiJpGMnL1FIZ8ndp4Y3jBKoadQrZG97Q/s1600/Worthy+of+Love.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVef7Dmlo7K5OzYfzhVRVvzQuzKJjFs1UvtOOfw0WVr-ZfF7iNgdu4ouu2vidbti7lHqaC-dLQ8dD0IO2E70ftuZup73R2zlYi9GkMJ4CQon0QiJpGMnL1FIZ8ndp4Y3jBKoadQrZG97Q/s320/Worthy+of+Love.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Worthy of Love<br />
<br />
âLife is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4114218.C_JoyBell_C_">C. JoyBell C.</a> <br />
<br />
âWhen you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.â <br />
â <a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7128.Jodi_Picoult">Jodi Picoult</a>, <span id="quote_book_link_1609451"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3079132">Change of Heart</a> </span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
What did I do for my project?</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I have been contemplating my next career journey. My path will come to a fork in the road within seventeen months. During this time, Iâve been exploring âWhatâs next?â There are many possibilities to choose from that werenât available when I was twenty. In January, I began a year-long class: <a href="https://cometothefire2018.com/">Come to the Fire</a> (Heidi Sequoia Moondancer). It is an on-line intentional creativity class to discover our sacred self. Each week, Iâm given a creative journal/art prompt.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Back in January, this month was devoted to my intentions for the New Year. I wrote in my journal about where I was and what I wanted to bring into the different aspects of my life (e.g., spiritually, family, career). To develop affirmations was an output of this exercise. Since January, I have continued to explore these affirmations including what my life would be like if I embraced them fully.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>You might say, this class fell into my lap. Again being open to Spirit, I signed up. I saw it as another way to explore my âwordsâ by using different forms of art (i.e., music and dance).</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Table: Concepts to bring into my life:</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Words<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ideas Holding me back</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Divine Mystery<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Disappearance of Spirit</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Laughter<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Sadness</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Confidence<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Distrust, Doubt and Uncertainties</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Hope<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Pessimism</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Joy<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Depression, Unhappy, Serious</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Worthy of Love<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Unloved</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Strength<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Weakness</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Self-Love<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Self-hating and Indifferent</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Why I chose my project?</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My project is a combination of journaling and drawing mandalas or Soulandalas. Soulandals is a concept that <a href="http://jackiedeblasio.com/">Jackie DeBlasio</a> coined. Mandalas are drawn over journal entry. The design is a way for the soul to express visually what is written. She writes drawing the repetitive designs often reveal messages that one might not recognize through word. This art form, she believes allows one to look at the messages of the inner critic and identify if stories are align with what one wants in life. Creating a mandala can change the story and provide a visual of what is possible.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
<span style="white-space: pre;"></span><div style="text-align: left;">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUGHQtzAVD5pVSvsb4WOWmZTGFKHM_iLigVetS7rzb4PGmIZ3lASNF6D4mJw46_cKY7NkemrPKzN7o0DnLf5KTPNayqhRpguiylMRo4gB2SCpQqwlXQToA-2uX97Lme0tLaizS5Ny3Ag/s1600/Confidence.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUGHQtzAVD5pVSvsb4WOWmZTGFKHM_iLigVetS7rzb4PGmIZ3lASNF6D4mJw46_cKY7NkemrPKzN7o0DnLf5KTPNayqhRpguiylMRo4gB2SCpQqwlXQToA-2uX97Lme0tLaizS5Ny3Ag/s200/Confidence.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Confidence</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<span style="white-space: pre;">
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="white-space: pre;">
</span>I took my words (see table above) and began creating soulandalas for each of them. My journal entry discussed what was holding me back, but I also wrote what my life would be like if I had this in it. I would start the âwordâ off by reading quotes from Goodreads. For example within my journal entry for self-confidence is a quote from Karen E. Quinones Mille: âWhen someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.â I would also look up symbolism and colors associated with the words. Again, referring to my âconfidenceâ soulandalas, I used gold and blue associated with confidence and a peacock feather design that symbolizes: vision, awaking and (inner) guidance.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>An outcome of the project is twofold. One, I have beautiful representations of my intentions. Secondly, as a writer I have discovered that my writing is dark and lacks in joy. Additionally, it has identified places that need healing and a new story needing told. The drawings have moved me to bring color into my life and to try write on different subjects. </div>
<br /></div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-49750708255296054222018-04-14T14:36:00.001-07:002018-04-19T03:54:43.266-07:00Devotions: Mary Olivers Artual for living<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNVLQr8TcOIf5s3IO4ZFUPDKrrQgrFV1k5j-NzGgPUwKDgiey7FzmNZipNPEfa4BW9llHI5XItfNNuala_LZINMJIFwnvpXBxR-27ZeVT9O_jC85kb_dABlnNHZxK-iSwSy9xrU2b7jI/s1600/mary+oliver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="1376" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNVLQr8TcOIf5s3IO4ZFUPDKrrQgrFV1k5j-NzGgPUwKDgiey7FzmNZipNPEfa4BW9llHI5XItfNNuala_LZINMJIFwnvpXBxR-27ZeVT9O_jC85kb_dABlnNHZxK-iSwSy9xrU2b7jI/s400/mary+oliver.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f7fe2779-c60c-be02-1747-ed201c892324" style="background-color: transparent; color: #44546a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Photo by Rachel Giese Brown</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-f7fe2779-c5f9-bdc4-52c1-a5b77c15eb80" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9nr9YfdvrdBD5Ctz0mKoN5vp8dSHuXZ9JmsCcMErMi2M969T6x3XfyO_KE95avPH_OSBCJQSZdeU7NDmG2uqXinqc53R_-TMz0m_LnLcn9Coi2YUBBntxkGICYtbupMAQ3AvDQI0sxkE/s1600/mary+oliver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: left; color: #0066cc; float: left; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9nr9YfdvrdBD5Ctz0mKoN5vp8dSHuXZ9JmsCcMErMi2M969T6x3XfyO_KE95avPH_OSBCJQSZdeU7NDmG2uqXinqc53R_-TMz0m_LnLcn9Coi2YUBBntxkGICYtbupMAQ3AvDQI0sxkE/s1600/mary+oliver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">âTell me, what is it you plan to do </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">with your one wild and precious life?â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">â
</span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23988.Mary_Oliver" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: &quot; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Mary Oliver</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #545454; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #545454; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #545454; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">âInstructions for living a life. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Pay attention. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Be astonished. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Tell about it.â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">â
</span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23988.Mary_Oliver" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: &quot; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Mary Oliver</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #545454; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #545454; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #545454; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">âListen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?â </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">â
</span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23988.Mary_Oliver">Mary Oliver<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span></a></span></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b>Artual (Art + Ritual) for living</b></div>
<b></b><br />
<div>
<br />
The following phrase is coined by<a href="http://whitneyfreya.com/"> Whitney Freya</a>, spiritual artist and healer. Whitney believes that using the medium of art is a portal to merge healing, energy, and awareness thru the practice, ritual, and play of intentional creativity. We all are creative and ultimately artists.<br />
<br />
Before you state, âIâm not creative nor an artist,â I argue that you are. Any time you put your heart and soul into any activity or a cause you are creating art. Art can take its form as: completing a data program for quality assurance, teaching a class, showing up at a demonstration, writing an article for our newsletter, singing in the car, gardening, making colorful cupcakes for a meal train⊠It is a piece of yourself that you share with the world.<br />
<br />
Think about it this way. What do you like to make? And, if you could make it all day long.... that is your art.<br />
<br />
April is national poetry month. One of my favorite Ohio born, Pulitzer Prize winning poets is<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-oliver"> Mary Oliver</a>. She recently published a collection of her favorites spanning over her more than fifty-year career:<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/536247/devotions-by-mary-oliver/9780399563249/"> Devotions</a>. What I like about Maryâs poems is her ability to make them accessible to all audiences. Her poems are powerful observations that bridge the natural world with everyday emotionsâsome tender and some full of joy. When I read one of her poems, I feel like I'm there with her walking in the woods or looking across the lake and can hear her inner dialogue. <br />
<br />
Since her partner of forty years died ( photographer Molly Malone Cook, 2005), Mary has become more open by sharing herself with the public. During lectures and interviews, she talks about her writing process: walking in the woods with little hand-sewn notebooks, scribbling thoughts which come to her, then turning these thoughts into poems. She states repeatedly, âthe woods saved her life.â Mary talks about how nature gave her insight and strength and wisdom. Nature gave her strength to publish. <br />
<br />
I hold the same thoughts about creativity as Mary: âItâs a gift to yourself but itâs a gift to anybody who has a hunger for it.â<br />
<br />
Below is one of my favorite âMary poemsâ found in Devotions and originally published in From White Pine, 1994. </div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj3M2oshTte8h0K1nTkI87iqDqYV3xrEGlji5lSCxn4wiloHlwCMLCaQ9N42LD8X2wQYTdzlw1Ts7OLujmUTHQ5cSjlVoXmn-t_IloApE_F-2qk39N2BFfTRRVb_pF5JcaUK0289xBtmE/s1600/Queen+Stovall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: right; color: #0066cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="736" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj3M2oshTte8h0K1nTkI87iqDqYV3xrEGlji5lSCxn4wiloHlwCMLCaQ9N42LD8X2wQYTdzlw1Ts7OLujmUTHQ5cSjlVoXmn-t_IloApE_F-2qk39N2BFfTRRVb_pF5JcaUK0289xBtmE/s320/Queen+Stovall.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>
Blackberry Picking by Queena Stovall (1887-1980)</div>
<div>
<a href="https://artofqueenastovall.com/queena-stovall-biography/">Learn more about her folk art</a></div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<u><span style="color: #000120;"></span></u><br />
<br />
<b> August</b><br />
by Mary Oliver<br />
<br />
<i>When the blackberries hang<br />swollen in the woods, in the branches<br />nobody owns, I spend<br />all day among the high</i><b></b><i><br />branches, reaching<br />my ripped arms, thinking<br />of nothing, cramming<br />the black honey of summer<br />into my mouth; all day my body<br />accepts what it is. In the dark<br />creeks that run by there is<br />this thick paw of my life darting among<br />the black bells, the leaves; there is<br />this happy tongue.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i><br /></i>
<b>Artual Activity:</b><br />
Take a walk in the woods with a scribbling pad. Jot down your thoughts.<br />
<br />
At home, review your notes and write a haiku. Be bold and share it below.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Here is one for the season from me.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Flurried gusts</div>
<div>
Saplings revel in the snow</div>
<div>
Elders twist and groan<br />
<br />
Quick review: a haiku is an unrhymed three-lined poem based on a Japanese poetic form. The first line and last line has five syllables each, and the middle line has seven. <br />
<br />
Line 1: 5 syllables<br />
Line 2: 7 syllables<br />
Line 3: 5 syllables</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 400 16px/22.08px "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 400 16px/22.08px "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 400 16px/22.08px "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Updated 4/16/2018</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 400 16px/22.08px "times new roman"; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">On Being with Mary Oliver <span class="Object-active" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT286_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkgreen; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://onbeing.org/programs/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world/" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">https://onbeing.org/programs/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world/</a></span> </i></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">NPR with Mary Oliver <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT287_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMrBN0enNJI" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMrBN0enNJI</a></span> </i></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Maria Shriver interviews Mary Oliver <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT288_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.oprah.com/spirit/maria-shriver-interview-poet-mary-oliver-o-magazine-poetry-issue" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.oprah.com/spirit/maria-shriver-interview-poet-mary-oliver-o-magazine-poetry-issue</a></span></i></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.08px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </i></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-18130347240386906682018-03-26T18:21:00.002-07:002018-03-28T04:27:35.192-07:00Demonstration, Marches, Cookie Making <div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyC-0f4JFM_lgUIxMm44lkEs7yYcw_gqaW2GCJnkTsvqYL5JVqDDA2XuZ1HJFreMpTnqJfFl-aOx4H1O9gou8ipJaxf263wLnmA29owqhlGG-rqEqVMiC5PdQXZ0lG5kc8zHuEyNKz1FE/s1600/the-womens-march-marietjie-henning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="870" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyC-0f4JFM_lgUIxMm44lkEs7yYcw_gqaW2GCJnkTsvqYL5JVqDDA2XuZ1HJFreMpTnqJfFl-aOx4H1O9gou8ipJaxf263wLnmA29owqhlGG-rqEqVMiC5PdQXZ0lG5kc8zHuEyNKz1FE/s320/the-womens-march-marietjie-henning.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Women's March by Marietjie Henning (2014). </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">
</span></span>
<br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-womens-march-marietjie-henning.html">See and Buy her painting</a>s</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">
</span></span>
<br />
<div id="topNameDiv" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline-block; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: top; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<h1 style="-ms-text-overflow: ellipsis; color: #444444; float: none; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; max-width: 300px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-shadow: none; white-space: nowrap; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">
</span></span></h1>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">
</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âColorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. â â <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6134.Arundhati_Roy">Arundhati Roy</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/12565">Public Power in the Age of Empire</a> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âReturning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.â â <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23924.Martin_Luther_King_Jr_">Martin Luther King Jr.</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/50833">Strength to Love</a> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âThere must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.â â <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10697.bell_hooks">bell hooks</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/19156">Killing Rage: Ending Racism</a> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In her essay about Xi Wangmu, <a href="http://suppressedhistories.net/goddess/xiwangmu.html">Max Dashu </a>writes that the goddess was seen as a personal savior, protector, and healer. The common people would parade barefooted with drums and chants to plead for her help. "This goddess movement alarmed the gentry, and the Confucian historian presented it in a negative light. He warned the danger of rising yin: females and the peasantry stepping outside their place." As with many uprisings from the poor, the wealthy and aristocrats put the people back into their social order by not sharing power -- not sharing love. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A privilege I have as a citizen of the U.S. is the right to "freedom of speech;" the "right of the people peaceably to assemble" and the right "to petition the (my) Government for a redress of grievances." On Saturday, I walked with the youth of American to end this gun violence. (<a href="https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript">SEE U.S. Constitution </a>and read it.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marches in the U.S. have long been used to plea for justice and bring awareness to a cause. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LJBWhPKWWc">Mary Harris "Mother" Jones,</a> organized child factory workers in 1903 to march in front of city hall in Kensington, Pennsylvania. She had them wave their maimed fingers and hands up in the air for all to see. The children were able to change the laws; no one under 16 could work. On the eve of President Wilson's inauguration (1913) the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=128&v=bi3mxt1Xhyk">suffragist held a parade</a> in Washington, DC which lead to violence and hospitalizing over 200 people. The police stood and watched as this happened. It was to be a "march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded." It was the press coverage of the violence against the women which would be the key. These women acted non-violently and this gained support from the public for their cause: to be able to vote. However, it would take additional public acts to get congress to ratify the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage">19th amendment in 1920</a>. In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV0k-3Hkjsw">May of 1963</a>, African American children took to the street to help end segregation. The press covered their march showing dogs and firehoses blasting water at the youth. The youth wanted to make a difference and were willing to make a sacrifice that would change the course of history.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQUJAn2EEDRXhwM8uf1TPTNQL8M0NXXXWyq_Dt1GiIPq88DPMFv4Amvhhy1n_pcbFXV8UBogZe0qvpJEElbo-0brWoCRm-9ODoCw0WR3JHXARtC6YPYPgpelMk41V3uSVzzaeaf7VwJK4/s1600/800px-Molly_Pitcher_currier_ives.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQUJAn2EEDRXhwM8uf1TPTNQL8M0NXXXWyq_Dt1GiIPq88DPMFv4Amvhhy1n_pcbFXV8UBogZe0qvpJEElbo-0brWoCRm-9ODoCw0WR3JHXARtC6YPYPgpelMk41V3uSVzzaeaf7VwJK4/s200/800px-Molly_Pitcher_currier_ives.jpg" width="178" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>
Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth</div>
<div>
lithograph, Library of Congress.</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My first "political march" was my annual city parade. My brothers and I dressed dramatizing the painting<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_%2776_(sentiment)#/media/File:Sprit_of_%2776.2.jpeg"> "Sprit of 1776." </a> The picture of Molly Pitcher was out of the question: 1) the cannon was unattainable and 2) three kids under the age of 13 rolling a cannon 2.5 miles along the parade route would be problematic. I was assigned to play to flute, because that was what I played in my 7th grade band. We were celebrating our countries 200th year birthday. My siblings and I knew our family's history: our ancestor was an officer in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. We were </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">demonstrating the need for the continued fight for our freedoms identified in the Constitution. We were growing up in the thick of the Cold War. However, in high school my teacher asked, "do you think the Soviet Children want the same thing too." It made me stop and think. In the late seventies, people shied away from marching for a cause in my city. I found another way; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I wrote my first letter to my senator.</span></span></div>
<div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYiw5brOF6S7rNuLH-TkiDjs0xnmaY2BX3KWie8ZQReU35eKzbPBCAr7lxV3mDoouTZdoscX45ClL_I3IOkjGhl8off74utUpngHhUiFXYxT3v1dKkN90OukB3b8GiByb54-kx2-tjqFY/s1600/defblack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My next march political march wouldn't be until the late eighties. I pushed my friend M in his wheelchair in the PRIDE parade: a straight woman and her dying gay friend. M had always wanted to march in a PRIDE parade. He wanted to publically state he belongs without being oppressed and ridiculed for his sexual orientation. M was concerned about my helping him be in the parade; but isn't that the definition of a friend? Isn't this how you show love? Since that march, I've participated in women's marches, anti-war marches and this weekend: the youth's March for Our Lives. There is something about being with a crowd wanting a change to make the U.S. a better and safe place and place where love is acted on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYeekQkAdc"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where is the Love (2003)</span></a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzk_x6dqVvG3DNU-5BlNtHbOGdgI0vlATWhcNDarcibddIZAR0pI7O3UbU7-U15vFwoH-o_1aUY-OGYi5RmEhF1qwqmS_Gs4DLNXZElnryWCM2kU60aFcQs651QI3-zxdkDl2U-S2rVVM/s1600/defblack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzk_x6dqVvG3DNU-5BlNtHbOGdgI0vlATWhcNDarcibddIZAR0pI7O3UbU7-U15vFwoH-o_1aUY-OGYi5RmEhF1qwqmS_Gs4DLNXZElnryWCM2kU60aFcQs651QI3-zxdkDl2U-S2rVVM/s200/defblack.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Written by will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo, Justin Timberlake, Printz Board, Michael Fratantuno and George Pajon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Performed by The Black Eyed Peas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
~~~</div>
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6kQ60Y-K2fkWpx1bHUTo0fpFpMKFduTr7tNaPJEAz7W7PrF-I62rMQ398dkfzFCCNwlaQG7aPXZbowXLR-AfIJQxaxWFx_kqJx-e9DXPe2wy7297IHkjKCsmejHfX3DSVTUKCi1QPbs/s1600/Bree+Newsom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="976" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip6kQ60Y-K2fkWpx1bHUTo0fpFpMKFduTr7tNaPJEAz7W7PrF-I62rMQ398dkfzFCCNwlaQG7aPXZbowXLR-AfIJQxaxWFx_kqJx-e9DXPe2wy7297IHkjKCsmejHfX3DSVTUKCi1QPbs/s320/Bree+Newsom.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/3/this_flag_comes_down_today_bree">Bree Newsome </a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At one of the local colleges this past week, I heard <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/3/this_flag_comes_down_today_bree">Bree Newsome</a> talk about art and social justice. Newsome, an artist, musician, and social activist, is known for climbing the flag pole in Charlotte, North Carolina to pull down the confederate flag. Her act of civil disobedience followed the massacre of 9 African American's during a prayer meeting. Newsome stated she was arrested along with a friend (white man), but her act also led to the flag being taken permanently down. A key take-away from her lecture was everyone is responsible for making our world, our country a better and safer place to live. Not everyone is called to put their lives on the line like Newman, but they are called to do something. Newsome used an analogy. The road to creating the beloved community is really a highway with many lanes. Some are called to lay down their lives, others to write letters, others marchers, others creating posters and art, and others providing food and comfort for these activists. You are only required to do something. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<br /></div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-25283198543966442842018-03-19T18:13:00.001-07:002018-03-21T04:27:21.610-07:00Peach Chakra<div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4H3THgWuJ8YLZNW1kN0QSot_mRvXvPh0-RG5O1G1nRbmRM9ULNwyTrNyhrtH-TIh3LKlksbOqGLctdoY54L6VNa5rX-uxxEE2QcjRL-nQYdgZNUkFrGE1X3w3SIdx3my1ATPSsP02N50/s1600/Louise_Moillon_-_At_the_Market_Stall_-_WGA16074.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1167" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4H3THgWuJ8YLZNW1kN0QSot_mRvXvPh0-RG5O1G1nRbmRM9ULNwyTrNyhrtH-TIh3LKlksbOqGLctdoY54L6VNa5rX-uxxEE2QcjRL-nQYdgZNUkFrGE1X3w3SIdx3my1ATPSsP02N50/s400/Louise_Moillon_-_At_the_Market_Stall_-_WGA16074.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the Market by <a href="https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/louise-moillon">Louise Moillon</a> (1610-1696) Painting is a private collection</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âBelieve something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?â </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">â <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11761.Diane_Duane">Diane Duane</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3464">So You Want to Be a Wizard</a> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">"<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.â â <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/186145.Vera_Nazarian">Vera Nazarian</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/14364793">The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration</a> </span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âThrough the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory.â â <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7710107.Genevieve_Gerard">Genevieve Gerard</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week I took a break, but I still thought of peaches. In my quest for mixing the perfect peach color with paint, I found that there are many shades of peach: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnM1D1lyPb0">red-orange color</a>. You must be knowledgeable of each color's undertones. Meaning, is the red made up of red tones or violet tones? Your choice of yellow depends on the tones: Like goes with Like. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my google search for mixing colors, the peach chakra appeared. (Chakras and mixing paint colors? I'm trying to figure out the connection.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you are aware, there are many chakras in the human body. Most people are familiar with the seven. The peach chakra is located within the heart chakra. You have to pull away the green and you will find it in the center. This chakra is associated with your soul. It is your connection with the divine source and the universe. It is a place of love and joy mixed together into a peaceful bliss </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The peach chakra reminds me of the story of Xi Wangmu's peach orchard. Her peaches took 3000 years to ripen. Eaten they gave one immortality and access to the divine. But, what if you didn't have to wait 3000 years. What if you had access to bliss by meditating through your peach chakra? </span></div>
<div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by <a href="https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/">Emily Dickinson</a> (1830 - 1886)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; float: left; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 8px; padding: 6px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px;">
<tr style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqJXQEeHLSsUyGJ1CIGS-Wb5o4A5_dXf1F1IPTEs_YKS-P904i19e0ib4rjWQBQvdeW0XYzXNzb5oEbo4dvZoGwziBwWhBlMlvOTDKk2ak6nfCop00qlC6uPY9uJKwbprM6H03Ig2mLs/s1600/Peach+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqJXQEeHLSsUyGJ1CIGS-Wb5o4A5_dXf1F1IPTEs_YKS-P904i19e0ib4rjWQBQvdeW0XYzXNzb5oEbo4dvZoGwziBwWhBlMlvOTDKk2ak6nfCop00qlC6uPY9uJKwbprM6H03Ig2mLs/s320/Peach+.jpg" width="229" /></a></td></tr>
<tr style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"><div style="font-size: 12.8px; padding-top: 0px;">
Peach watercolor by Sharon Foster. </div>
<div style="font-size: 12.8px; padding-top: 0px;">
<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/278782670/peach-watercolor-painting-original-fruit" style="font-size: 12.8px; padding-top: 0px;">See and Buy her art.</a> </div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wild nights - Wild nights!<br />
<br />Were I with thee<br />Wild nights should be<br />Our luxury!<br /><br />Futile - the winds -<br />To a Heart in port -<br />Done with the </span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span>
<br />
<div style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
Compass -<br /> Done with the Chart!<br /><br />Rowing in Eden -<br />Ah - the Sea!</span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Might I but moor - tonight -</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In thee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">~~~</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Artural: Art + Ritual</b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Auntie Grace's Peach Cobbler is bliss especially warm and with ice cream:</b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 cup butter</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup of flour</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup of sugar</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 teaspoon of baking powder</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 cup of milk</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 cups of cut up peaches without skins</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Preheat oven 275 F</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Melt butter in a baking pan on the stove (9 inches by 13 inches dish)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Mix flour, sugar and baking powder together in a separate bowl. Stir in milk until there aren't any lumps.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. Dump this into the melted butter pan. DO NOT STIR. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. Sprinkle fruit on top. DO NOT STIR THEM INTO THE MIXTURE.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Raise temperature of the oven up to 350F</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. Bake 50-60 minutes or until the cake is lightly brown on top.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></b>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-3393530302816675392018-03-04T13:24:00.002-08:002018-03-05T04:15:51.804-08:00Longing for Peaches<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh72iDdSehQgJGOXkyldxJ2dzIFDJGKlIkdK99mqBW4I4YeI8dA2W4UP_qiD9pSqgzc3Pb9j5g7M8Nu-GsO9FnVO10goWL8mSjBRPOypDmC9shZOUBfZcFZfPYNviCfdewZGIEe_gTyFs/s1600/Evelyndunbar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="415" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh72iDdSehQgJGOXkyldxJ2dzIFDJGKlIkdK99mqBW4I4YeI8dA2W4UP_qiD9pSqgzc3Pb9j5g7M8Nu-GsO9FnVO10goWL8mSjBRPOypDmC9shZOUBfZcFZfPYNviCfdewZGIEe_gTyFs/s320/Evelyndunbar.jpg" width="221" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>
Florence Dunbar Tending the Garden by</div>
<div>
<a href="http://evelyndunbar.com/6287.htm">Evelyn Dunbar (1938-1939)</a> </div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âThe flavor the came to me was a luscious Sincerest peach that I once had in California. This heirloom variety needed time to ripen on the tree to achieve its peak flavor. Unlike other peaches that were picked unripe so they would ship more easily, Sincerest peaches had to be eaten right away. But they were worth it- fragrant, luscious, juice-dripping-down-your-chin perfection.â ~~ <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/339550.Judith_M_Fertig">Judith M. Fertig</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/47250887">The Memory of Lemon</a> </span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âLife is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.â ~~ <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7380.Alice_Walker">Alice Walker</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/313937">Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology</a> </span><b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br /></b>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, the wind-flower wave in gladness." ~~<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/519259.Lucy_Larcom">Lucy Larcom</a></span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its a blue sky sunny day in March, but don't let that fool you into wearing a sweater and shorts. It is in the high 30s. By the time March rolls around in Ohio, I long for spring and the fruit of summer. I was walking home from work this past week, and I noticed that the crocuses and daffodils leaves are pushing up out of the ground. The effect inspired me to purchased tomato and pepper seeds to start in the house. Spring is coming.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A characteristic I share with Xi Wangmmu, we are gardeners. Her garden is filled with peach trees; mine vegetables and raspberries. Those who are gardeners carry similar characteristics. We have patience to let a fruit ripen in the sun; can see patterns in the weather and try to understand what our plants may need to grow; and have a vision of what to outcome will be like--tasting a sun ripened tomato basil salad with mozzarella cheese, balsamic vinegar and olive oil. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~</span></div>
<b></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The peach tree on the southern wall </span></b><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/christina-rossetti">Christina Rosetti</a> (1830-1894)</span></em><br />
<em></em><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The peach tree on the southern wall </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Has basked so long beneath the sun, </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdzQjgpIDSbu073eBR0W8H1xtSkxEIzRIF7LXWJExGjTZvvEM2NXxvhiC2cIM-VevY5pkcb6P71FlOm6ggMpgb4ptW9fEcI-X8IsrRbA4foyuTO1Mx4tGUJ4kN4KDwN6nSxzAYAXdC4NA/s1600/chinese+painting+peach+blossoms.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her score of peaches great and small </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bloom rosy, every one. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A peach for brothers, one for each, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A peach for you and a peach for me; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the biggest, rosiest, downiest peach </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For Grandmamma with her tea</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">~~~</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiAy-2WccpLXyZPupSvBcsmV0EnPHy_kEc1EFh_DB_a6IKi3v_hUI3Q4Txwp7E5JW8zBZv5iOFqoOGnSMz5xabXnW31YcTUovoMZoQGgniN86HLccOd2gVZhL6Se-S8BwApQvpthF8ze4/s1600/chinese+painting+peach+blossoms.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiAy-2WccpLXyZPupSvBcsmV0EnPHy_kEc1EFh_DB_a6IKi3v_hUI3Q4Txwp7E5JW8zBZv5iOFqoOGnSMz5xabXnW31YcTUovoMZoQGgniN86HLccOd2gVZhL6Se-S8BwApQvpthF8ze4/s320/chinese+painting+peach+blossoms.jpg" width="207" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chinese painting: peach blossoms</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Artual (ART + Ritual)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b></b><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A67qerNtYPA">Peach Blossom Song (Chinese Folk Song) </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Arranged by Yoshiharu Morokuma</span>Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-29877811215020128732018-02-27T17:16:00.001-08:002018-02-28T03:32:11.496-08:00Being a Light for Someone<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgPyPcF8WA7Ovy3qOlqDO8GfDmCv7q74VAbJdR6IWffk4MKUadyCUb03kug3a2Pj5e7dMgH7F2rHZtqoO-B9XZ6b0KTRP-JygQ7k782W9PHHA83_Ll6j9JHt4YwzBN5WT7dcGtDho9vos/s1600/Enslave+picture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="563" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgPyPcF8WA7Ovy3qOlqDO8GfDmCv7q74VAbJdR6IWffk4MKUadyCUb03kug3a2Pj5e7dMgH7F2rHZtqoO-B9XZ6b0KTRP-JygQ7k782W9PHHA83_Ll6j9JHt4YwzBN5WT7dcGtDho9vos/s320/Enslave+picture.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>
Big Dipper by Barbara Blasius McHugh (2015)</div>
<div>
buy <a href="https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/paula-blasius-mchugh.html">and look at her paintings</a></div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Polaris Statistics</strong></span><br /><strong>Also Known As</strong>: Polaris A, Alpha Ursae Minoris, Pole Star, North Star<br /><strong>Distance From Earth</strong>: 430 light years<br /><strong>Constellation</strong>: Ursa Minor<br /><strong>Star Type</strong>: F Class Supergiant<br /><strong>Mass</strong>: 4.5 x Sun<br /><strong>Luminosity</strong>: 2,500 x Sun<br /><strong>Diameter</strong>: 44 million miles (70 million km) - 50 x Sun<br /><strong>Temperature</strong>: 5,700C (10,300F)<br /><strong>Age</strong>: Unknown </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>Rotation Period</strong>: 119 days<br /><br />Citation: <a href="https://www.solarsystemquick.com/universe/polaris-star.htm">https://www.solarsystemquick.com/universe/polaris-star.htm</a><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This past week we finally had an evening to see the stars. It has been raining a lot, enough to bring the Ohio River to flood stages--the highest in 25 years--(my basement now has a small puddle in the center). That night, I quickly survey the northern sky, and there it was the strongest point of light, the North Star. Okay not the strongest, researchers rank it as fifty. (How to find the North Star <a href="http://earthsky.org/tonight/use-the-pointers-to-find-polaris">http://earthsky.org/tonight/use-the-pointers-to-find-polaris</a>)</span><br />
<br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrHsFd1WD9wkOGAWDzPjXQ6NM8eqwfphzDoc5OyHDuRL0qdnvZDHm9N-xZCpY8gtmpBTRjyCeEXh2Fvg7635itg2iQmvpSotUFOMzlieg2Vh7nTgD9x6P_-A5F28tLvJ1XmJqeXcP4-Q/s1600/800px-Harriet_Tubman_by_Squyer%252C_NPG%252C_c1885.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrHsFd1WD9wkOGAWDzPjXQ6NM8eqwfphzDoc5OyHDuRL0qdnvZDHm9N-xZCpY8gtmpBTRjyCeEXh2Fvg7635itg2iQmvpSotUFOMzlieg2Vh7nTgD9x6P_-A5F28tLvJ1XmJqeXcP4-Q/s320/800px-Harriet_Tubman_by_Squyer%252C_NPG%252C_c1885.jpg" width="191" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Harriet Tubman, photograph by </span></div>
<div>
<span class="mw-mmv-author" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Horatio Seymour Squyer, </span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="mw-mmv-author" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">1848 - 18 Dec 1905</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> - </span></span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">See it at </span><span class="mw-mmv-source" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24.48px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://npg.si.edu/">National Portrait Gallery</a></span></span></span></span></div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">When I think about the North Star, I always associate it to Harriet Tubman. She used the North Star to guide herself to freedom. Once freed from slavery, she returned thirteen times to the south and rescued other enslaved people. Each time, Tubman risked her life and freedom, and she continued using the bright North Star as her compass. I want to believe she used this same North Star spirit to be the first woman to lead an armed assault during the Civil War. The same bright spirit in the suffrage movement. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Harriet Tubman was a woman who made a difference in people's lives then and now. </span><br />
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksx7D1GzBn5W-u7CcUzZFY5tly2dwL-PSTrXnuP8W2_7gNDUa6RNJGdcQzQb3dqAAF155Pncea-XssMaVHgVHS0YxAWxphgoIJ-YadNM6EnCZy1ZL41X3RZeHLKdN-QnynFQu510HMPo/s1600/Sarah+Brown.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjksx7D1GzBn5W-u7CcUzZFY5tly2dwL-PSTrXnuP8W2_7gNDUa6RNJGdcQzQb3dqAAF155Pncea-XssMaVHgVHS0YxAWxphgoIJ-YadNM6EnCZy1ZL41X3RZeHLKdN-QnynFQu510HMPo/s1600/Sarah+Brown.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Sarah Brown (1846 - 1916)</div>
<div>
<a href="http://www.saratogahistory.com/History/sarah_brown.htm">Learn more about Sarah</a></div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">In her novel <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490777-the-mapmaker-s-children">Mapmaker's Children</a></i>, Sarah McCoy links the past and present together by paralleling two women's stories around a dollâs head. The reader learns of the characters (Eden and Sarah) struggles around infertility and how they become a beacon for other people in their lives. <br /><br />The past narrator is Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown. McCoy uses Brown's personal letters and historical documents to support Sarah story. Sarah, we learn is also an abolitionist and an artist. She used her art to create cryptic picturegrams (maps) to help enslaved people find their way north to freedom. Historical evidence shows that some of her maps were hidden within dolls. McCoy uses the doll as a device to link her two character.<br /><br />Eden Anderson, is the present-day character. She and her husband have moved into an old house in West Virginia in hopes to save their marriage. Eden is grieving over another miscarriage. The reader learns that this has become a cyclical: hormone injections, invitro-fertilization and miscarriage. She is the one who finds the dollâs head in the root cellar. <br /><br />McCoy quickly shows us that Sarah also struggles from infertility due to an illness. As a result, Sarah chooses to never marry and devotes her life helping others. Thus, becoming a gifted mapmakers for the Underground Railroad. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Edenâs path to be a light for another isnât clear cut as Sarahâs. For Eden, the pattern must be modeled by others. In turn Eden's acts aren't great as Sarah's, but they do make a difference in the lives she touches. </span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
~~~</div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Oriflamme</span></strong><br />by <a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jessie-redmon-fauset">Jessie Redmon Fauset</a><br /><br /><br /> <em>âI can remember when I was a little, young girl, how my old </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em> mammy would sit out of doors in the evenings and look up at </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em> the stars and groan, and I would say, âMammy, what makes<br /> you groan so?â And she would say, âI am groaning to think of<br /> my poor children; they do not know where I be and I donât<br /> know where they be. I look up at the stars and they look up at<br /> the stars!ââ</em> âSojourner Truth<br /> <br /> <br /> I think I see her sitting bowed and black,<br /> Stricken and seared with slaveryâs mortal scars,<br /> Reft of her children, lonely, anguished, yet<br /> Still looking at the stars.<br /> <br /> Symbolic mother, we thy myriad sons, <br /> Pounding our stubborn hearts on Freedomâs bars,<br /> Clutching our birthright, fight with faces set,<br /> Still visioning the stars!</span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span>~~~</div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I have always been taught that one of my roles on this earthly plane was to serve. I don't envision that my work will be as dynamic as Sojourner Truth, Harriett Tubman, or Sarah Brown. But, I can do small things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">This past week I was called up by a friend. Her niece had suffered yet another miscarriage. My friend was looking for resources. See, I too had experienced several miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy. My friend was concerned, because the doctors had not offered any mental health care. I was able to provide several support groups and a <a href="https://www.npr.org/2015/08/15/429761386/adopting-a-buddhist-ritual-to-mourn-miscarriage-abortion">Japanese (Buddhist) ritual that helped my spiri</a>t. I believe that day I was a shining star for my friend. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Artual: (ART + Ritual)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></b><b><br /></b>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUfz7nsA8NBEiPgAI5-R1WdpdDhDj5JeQ2Km1WtnVeiFdJ7AEvEcupUrFTSp_YU2QDPiESjfI0FPCTzGRCK4ht71B5OCTquIfYFrWSQTdnlAd14K9yhlEUZ7qZt_-jdZo1igE0A9Xxog/s1600/Stjerneskud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUfz7nsA8NBEiPgAI5-R1WdpdDhDj5JeQ2Km1WtnVeiFdJ7AEvEcupUrFTSp_YU2QDPiESjfI0FPCTzGRCK4ht71B5OCTquIfYFrWSQTdnlAd14K9yhlEUZ7qZt_-jdZo1igE0A9Xxog/s200/Stjerneskud.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br />Recipe for Stjerneskud: Danish Shooting Star open sandwich</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Sliced, toasted and mayonnaise smear rye bread<br /><br />2. one leaf of lettuce<br /><br />3. fried fish fillet (your choice)<br /><br />4. pile of shrimp<br /><br />5. pile of steamed asparagus<br /><br />6. wedge of tomato<br /><br />7. garnish with lemon and dill pickle twist.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mary Chaplin Carpenter: </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qONM_SBsFUQ">Between Here and Gone</a></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Mary Chaplin Carpenter: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adss1HiqWdY">We're all Right</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><u><span style="color: #000120; font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></u>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn-hKvo-ekSHPOvpOT8YQgCs9ZD0efosZCRcZDcUhzYaKo7RFStFVAwCGy5kZfCQZtq-mquPrZFunwn49Z32HcgLWmhiK8qj6Wws-46NoB2xHiplESDxEDCtxHLQcmlW8GReNiEDD8S94/s1600/Stjerneskud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a>
<u><span style="color: #000018;"><br /></span></u>
<u><span style="color: #000024;"><br /></span></u>
<u><span style="color: #000036;"><br /></span></u>
<u><span style="color: #000054;"><br /></span></u>
<br />
<div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
</div>
</div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385784515134062729.post-16457537983468076432018-02-19T08:33:00.001-08:002018-02-21T12:12:58.350-08:00Big Dipper: a vessel needing filled up<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOiE_puKes_Ae205jozPcHIwECpkb6fcBziffekaFhCV-I-0TjIp4oNrx4C6R60VBZEdE69sEV3sAeLoygKnmfgTwX2fcEUvUZ1LSj4zQTi1L0GZKcMj4TbP5vhCEFd8hsnk3TTMIAkO4/s1600/Mira+Scott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="564" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOiE_puKes_Ae205jozPcHIwECpkb6fcBziffekaFhCV-I-0TjIp4oNrx4C6R60VBZEdE69sEV3sAeLoygKnmfgTwX2fcEUvUZ1LSj4zQTi1L0GZKcMj4TbP5vhCEFd8hsnk3TTMIAkO4/s400/Mira+Scott.jpg" width="258" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picturethishiltonhead.com/mira-scott/">Little Dipper by Mira Scott, buy see her paintings</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âOur body is a sacred temple/A place to connect with
people./As we aren't staying any younger/ We might as well keep it
stronger.â â <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4367104.Ana_Claudia_Antunes"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">Ana Claudia
Antunes</span></a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/14234996"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">The Tao of Physical and Spiritual</span></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9351609-the-tao-of-physical-and-spiritual"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9351609-the-tao-of-physical-and-spiritual</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âYour body is home for your breath, your mind, your
soulâhow can you treat it like the sacred container that it is.ââ Kristin Diversi <a href="https://wanderlust.com/journal/author/kristindiversi/">https://wanderlust.com/journal/author/kristindiversi/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">âThis is the time of the great weaving of womenâŠTo get
her deepest truths, a woman doesnât ascend but rather descends. This is why she has feared herself where both
her yes and her no, her strength and vulnerability create conditions for her
whole self to be both leveled and raised up simultaneously as a vessel of the
fiercest feminine power imagined. â Alisa Starkweather <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<o:p><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Max Dushuâs article about Xi Wangmu, she describes how
the goddess gains her power from the dipper stars. Iâve been contemplating this idea this week; what if this is a metaphor? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A dipper is a ladle or a scoop by definition. It could also be define as a vessel or
container to carry a solid or liquid. In
this discussion, I'm talking about Xi Wangmuâs power. And,
what if the dipper was within Xi Wangmu?
Thus the dipper stars are there to remind us where she gets her power:
within. Maybe the dipper stars
remind her to take time and refuel this power? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My body is considered a sacred vessel and it too holds my
power. But, unlike Xi Wangmu, I donât
take enough time to refuel. I give and
giveâdepleting my energy. And, if I do
refuel it -- most often it is with junk. Junk being:
candy, reading a no think novel, or binge watching tv. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">blessing the boats</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(at St. Maryâs)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my the tide <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that is entering even now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the lip of our understanding <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">carry you out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">beyond the face of fear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">may you kiss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the wind then turn from it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">certain that it will<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">love your back may you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">open your eyes to water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">water waving forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and may you in your innocence <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sail through this to that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">```<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtQOcS3l69L88f2-pgibl3STXw3wJsO6Za84a-Wd3V6BZoCXdB1oVsRNPfnIWdL76NeVxPzwIb9gVByvAQ-m0G5uHgwJ647N-RfHOJwcq0_fv2pKUoGf2rtarLTk5zvy3a-BLs9QQDC0/s1600/Paula+Modersohn+Becker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="349" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtQOcS3l69L88f2-pgibl3STXw3wJsO6Za84a-Wd3V6BZoCXdB1oVsRNPfnIWdL76NeVxPzwIb9gVByvAQ-m0G5uHgwJ647N-RfHOJwcq0_fv2pKUoGf2rtarLTk5zvy3a-BLs9QQDC0/s320/Paula+Modersohn+Becker.jpg" width="267" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Girl at Duck Pond, Paula Modersohn-Becker<br />
See it at <a href="https://www.museumbelvedere.nl/">Museaum Belvedere</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you know, itâs that time of year again. LENT.
LENT: 40 days of being solemn and reflecting and giving up to make space for
the divine moments. The word originates from Anglo-Saxon <em><span style="font-style: normal;">Lenten</span></em>, meaning
âspring.â or getting ready for spring. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year, as in the past I
will not be giving up, but bringing in.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I
will be continuing a Lenten Season based on <a href="http://www.candicebenbow.com/blog/lent2017">Candice Benbowâs</a> article of how
women already give-up.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This past year, my sacred vessel doesnât need to be
emptied any more. Turning it up-side-down,
there isnât much left. Iâve worried
about my sonâs health issues, coped with my own health issues that havenât
gone away, worried about my dadâs health, worried about my friend who is
homeless, worried about finances with a child in college, worried about yet
another job responsibility added to my overflowing plate, worried about the
working conditions of my jobâŠworried aboutâŠ
Then there are the worries from outside my home and are from my
community and my country. Each worry has
taken a drink from my sacred vessel. The
D*** news gets worse each day. On the day of love (Valentine's Day), marked with tragedy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday, I cried at the computer. My origami stars next to my desk reminded of my words I wrote on them. Strong words. Inspired, I choose one word to fill-up my
vessel during Lent. Spontaneous laughter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I promised to laugh â belly laughâthe kind that causes
tears to run down my cheek and leg. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">ARTUAL (Art + Ritual)</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week I am working on those projects that have a
little bit to go. One is a tie quilt
that needs its binding sewn and the other a pullover sweater that I knitted (Iâm
changing it into a cardigan). Both have
been drinking from the vessel by not being completed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now is the time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibiYRxq_zfv6lmMc5tkClqmzCSTwAWe7P4qRtfLffi9vzTpDx-ONKrF4T6PYILggv8CQGEEJHMCMDoD1SD-almMhYaMIJ-wgUaXv1SflGAgL8nEVrT5KU6Ue_vX1m7vJOeiSal5K__tc/s1600/jakob+quilt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibiYRxq_zfv6lmMc5tkClqmzCSTwAWe7P4qRtfLffi9vzTpDx-ONKrF4T6PYILggv8CQGEEJHMCMDoD1SD-almMhYaMIJ-wgUaXv1SflGAgL8nEVrT5KU6Ue_vX1m7vJOeiSal5K__tc/s200/jakob+quilt.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your quest â find those creative projects that you havenât
completed. Do it now. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Update: 2/19/2018: Finished up a tie quilt by asking C over for an afternoon craft day. Then watched a funny movie on Hulu.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Update: 2/21/2018: I laughed at the Black Panther. It was because of my age and the jokes were related to my experiences as an older woman. Most of the audience didn't know <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kSZVtLFygs">Grace Jones</a>. (Link to her singing Slave to the Rhythm)</span></div>
</div>
Homelighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15021804922034488307noreply@blogger.com0