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the ambiguous moment of opening or closing a door
under the mystery of an unknown spell… There is a kind of imperative to give birth, to create. Perhaps it derives from our being made as an image perceived as the Creator. Eckhart names this obligation...
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running wildly into creative fire
Art and healing are intimately connected because it is through imagination and image making that you can stimulate and witness the process of becoming whole. The experience of becoming whole, while...
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the primordial creative code of offering our gifts
Creative work is a bold attempt to be like God. You can expect it to take you to the edge of human possibility, where the landscape is as dark as the night sky. You can’t know where you are going or...
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art as the anecdote to the overrated boxy life
The great German author Thomas Mann wrote, ‘Art is the spirit in matter, the natural instinct toward humanization, that is, toward the spiritualization of life’….This instinct provides a bridge...
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show up for grace & collect surprises along the way
Beauty happens unexpectedly, but it comes out of a practice of attention and humility. And beauty is always a surprise. You can’t go expecting beauty. It comes from tilling those fields. It comes from...
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the light and dark of living artfully…..
We are put here for a little space that we may learn how to bear the beams of love. …..William Blake our own unique vision of the world is worthy of great attention…..only we can imagine how life...
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to be within a poem…
Good poems bring the grant of malleability. They make the world, and the self, workable, when it might seem to have stiffened past change. They hold the omnipresence of interconnection without...
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nothing like a gentle nudge to have fun
We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. ……..Rumi This is the place of no fear….of puddles and puppies and paint and princesses and posies…..may you welcome the graceful cycles of an inner...
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drawing the lines of our life
Van Gogh saw more in the dark than most people see in the light of day. He saw details, nuances, beauty in a single night sky. And he was able to describe what he saw to make it come alive for us, to...
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spontaneous epiphanies
If I can bear the nights, the days are a pleasure. I walk out, I see something, some event that would otherwise have been utterly missed and lost; or something sees me, some enormous power brushes me...
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