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How Light Carries On
There’s a song that captures my heart every time I hear it. It tells a story of love and loss, and how precious the time is we that we spend together.
You taught me the courage of stars before you left. How light carries on endlessly even after death. With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite. How rare and beautiful it is to even exist.
I couldn’t help but ask For you to say it all…
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Can I Choose to be Happy?
Back in the 90s a little company called Republic of Tea was created by the same people who launched the retailer Banana Republic. The Republic of Tea launched with clever marketing, beautiful packaging, intriguing flavors, and lots of story, including Ministers instead of Managers.
There were pithy sayings on each tin of tea from the Minister of Leaves. One of those has stuck with me for…
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We Birth Our Future
Cloud Atlas, the remarkable book by David Michell and cinematic gift from Lana and Andy Wachowski (creators of The Matrix), didn’t last long in the cinema, the ideas it raises will carry it on. This post from Ekostories highlights important themes, including Change Through Connection, Music and Storytelling, and the Unpredictable Power of Stories. Even if you have no interest in the film,…
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#Andy Wachowski#art#cinema#Cloud Atlas#evolution#healing#human spirit#inspiration#Lana Wachowski#Muse#social justice#storytelling
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Your Future Self
A Year Begins
New Years reflections are everywhere. You’ve seen ’em, the braggy holiday newsletters, demands to perfect yourself set resolutions. I’ve made the year-end gratitude list, and the 2024 goals list. Sure, there’s some interesting info, but what’s the story?
According to Hidden Brain’s Shankar Vedantam we can’t know what our future-self wants, because we don’t know who our future-self…
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Loving Winter
Winter Blessings!
I love Winter.
This is an unpopular opinion. During my years in DC, people shuddered in horror when I enthused about snow. Forecast an inch of snow and stand back: you just unleashed a stampede on grocery stores. Parking lots jammed, milk, bread and TP flying off the shelves. Here in western PA folks are less flappable about winter, and a good deal more capable of managing it. But they aren’t…
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Stepping Off a Cliff
This November’s cool, darkening weather calls for a warm cuppa and a cosy place to spin out words. So recently I’m writing in a local cafe nearly every day. Because I have three rough-drafted novels, started some years ago with the NaNoWriMo project. These have been languishing, unedited, and now I’m called to dust them off and see what to make of them.
Right now I’m working on a coming-of-age…
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#changes#creativity#growing up#inspiration#mental health#mistakes#nanowrimo#risk taking#wisdom#writing
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Consider Your Muse
Muse: Irresistible Beauty
The traditional definition brings to mind a being who inspires devotion, and gives inspiration in return. In western art the Muse has been a desirable female model who serves as inspiration to male painter or sculptor. Or perhaps she was a mythical figure like these classic Greek Muses, an idealized quality represented as a desirable female.
Muse: Noun1. a person…
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Dusting Off the Past
From 2011-2016 I participated in NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month project, where you sign up to write 50,000 words in 30 days along with a few hundred thousand other writers. This experience gave me some VERY rough drafts, that somewhat resemble three unfinished novels.
I’m going to sign up again an revise/rewrite my 2013 novel Home, The Unknown Isle (working title), about a young…
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The Rise & Fall of Dreams
A WESTERN PA LANDSCAPE
Many luminous clear days this September cast dramatic shadows around the old Johnstown PA neighborhoods I wander in. The splendid weather lured me out, chasing the color and light, day after day.
Much like my hometown of Detroit, Johnstown has followed the rustbelt arc. Ambition, enormous creative effort, rapid growth of industry on a never-before-seen scale, ingenuity,…
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#Autumn#color#creativity#everyday miracle#industrial ruins#inspiration#johnstown pa#light#Muse#pennsylvania#photography#urban decay
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Harvest, Gratitude & Balance
Revised and updated from a version originally published September 21, 2016
On Saturday at 2:50 am EDT we will cross the Equinox and enter the autumn season . This time of year is filled with opportunity to celebrate Harvest, Gratitude and Balance. As the day and night become equal we can honor the bounty in our lives, the miracle of our journey through time, and the harvest on our tables. (Bless…
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Good.
A powerful movie often leaves me speechless for some time, while I sort through my reactions and feelings. That’s why I usually stay for all the credits, sitting quiet in the dark theater before I re-enter the busy world.
This happened today when I saw the NT Live theatrecast of the play, Good, by CP Taylor, currently running at the Harold Pinter theatre in London. Set in the early 30s Germany,…
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#art#CP Taylor#David Tennant#drama#human nature#inspiration#intense#National Theatre#plays#theater#thought-provoking
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The imperfect moment
The lesson that life constantly enforces is ‘Look underfoot.’ You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don’t despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center ofthe world. —Naturalist John Burroughs
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Magic
I venture out this splendid September late afternoon, basking in warm golden light. I’ve been feeling crummy, a head cold. Parking by a backwoods pond I drink in the reflected hemlocks, trailing bows in the water.
A tiny duck sails out from a little cove. I wish for binoculars. But instead, patience. (And google who tells me she’s probably a ruddy duck.) She glides leaving only the tiniest…
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Loving Too Much
I frequently experience artistic paralysis. But it’s not because I don’t know what to do, or I don’t know what I like. I’ll begin to paint spontaneously, leaping into the water and swim, only to get lost about where I’m going and why.This has been confusing me — I love too many things, and they all crowd into my mind at once.
So here’s a list of things I love in a painting:
SPACE
Moody, misty…
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#abstract painting#art#art decisions#change#color#creativity#form#inspiration#marks#Muse#nature#painting#space
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Deadlines Light a Good Fire
Deadlines Light a Good Fire
I moved to a new community in 2019, just in time for a pandemic. While this was good for my introverted productivity (reading! painting! sleeping!) it’s meant that I have very few social connections in my new hometown, certainly not what I’d expect in my 2nd year. So when the opportunity to participate in the 2021 Art Walk in the Park this August 29th arose, I leapt on it.
Rocky is a big help…
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Reviewing CVP
This is my first year as a student of the Creative Visionary Program offered by Art2Life by painter Nicholas Wilton. It’s time to review what happened in my art experience over those 13 weeks.
What’s Different Today?
Today I have a robust daily art practise that involves multiple works in progress. I have just created an inventory system and cataloged my work since March 1 and discovered 45…
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#abstract painting#acrylic painting#art#change#color#creativity#CVP#CVP2021#discovery#Inner work#inspiration#Muse#nature#painting#pattern#process#source#vision board
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Where Have I Been?
Where Have I Been?
As I wrap up an art-changing 13 weeks of the Creative Visionary Program I’m looking back, and came across this post started in December. Back in October I joined a free class offered by Art2Life called ‘Breadcrumbs.’ For five days we had live Zoom calls with painter Nicholas Wilton and his team. Each day had a theme, and Day 2’s powerful question was “Where have I been?”
The question arose in…
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