tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14609168910838847872024-02-20T02:13:42.692-08:00Hands_on_ARTDeborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-46927695350379304912013-07-26T14:14:00.001-07:002013-07-26T14:14:33.909-07:00just paint<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Earlier this month,<br />
I joined some of my Illinois family<br />
to paint my sister's garage: pure white!<br />
As the month of July ends,<br />
I have returned to Houston<br />
to get out my acrylics, brushes, and old canvases<br />
so I may join Pixie Campbell<br />
& others in a 5-week paint exploration! <br />
<a href="http://pixiecampbell.com/visualquest">http://pixiecampbell.com/visualquest</a><br />
<br />Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-78427467910637570502013-04-28T05:25:00.000-07:002013-04-28T05:25:33.402-07:00the Artist's Rule notes and quotes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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i am pre-reading<br />
one of the books<br />
on my summer reading list:<br />
<i>the Artist's Rule</i><br />
because i just can't wait<br />
for some encouragement for my soul. <br />
This morning,<br />
i perused <i>week 8</i> with my morning coffee. <br />
the view, with my morning coffee,<br />
from my apartment<br />
is not nearly as grand as this, yet,<br />
~> i am a dreamer,<br />
and i hope for morning coffee in spots like this!<br />
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-"love can be demanding. making our relationships a priority, and serving even when we don't feel lite it are not always easy. love necessitates that we allow the people in our lives to be themselves without our wishing they were different. in our challenges with others, we are invited to welcome dissonance and notice the stirrings in our own hearts."<br />
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-"others often can see aspects of ourselves that we cannot . consider asking someone you trust deeply to tell you how they see your gifts at work in the world and the places where you seem to hold yourself back. receive these words with reverence and humility, and welcome in what they might have to teach you about your own creative journey."<br />
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-"the friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion,<br />
who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement,<br />
who can tolerate knowing.... not healing, not curing...<br />
that is a friend who cares." ~Henri J. M. Nouwen~Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-8752883563929909292013-03-11T11:52:00.000-07:002013-03-11T11:54:19.265-07:00glean<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New';">1) to extract
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">2) to collect
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synonyms: gather, collect, pick up</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">the gleaners</span></i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">, the creation of Jean-Francois Millet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">is a reflection
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">and often
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ruth tells the story of</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">a woman</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="color: #191919; font-family: "Courier New";">gleaning fields </span></div>
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<span style="color: #191919; font-family: "Courier New";"> for sustenance and the long ago practice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">by wealthy landowners to instruct the reapers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">to leave behind
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">to assist those in need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">on my bleak grey
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">after the doubt,
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">it is then i can
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">to gather up
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">a friend has
introduced me to the book: <a href="http://abbeyofthearts.com/books/the-artists-rule-nurturing-your-creative-soul-with-monastic-wisdom/"><i><span style="color: #0000f5;">the artist's rule</span></i></a>, </span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">by Christine
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">i bought a copy
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">but summer is a
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">and i need the
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">so i have been
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">and</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">collecting some goodness to nourish my soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Jane Redmont
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">"Monastic
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">living a creative
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Christine Valters
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">of the way.
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">more
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Those who go
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return with songs of joy carrying sheaves with them.</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Psalm 126</span><span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this post is my response<br />
to a blog challenge<br />
given by Andrea Hiltbrunner,<br />
who lives in the Alps in Switzerland! <br />
i am honored to be connected to her through Art.<br />
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Andrea's challenge is a word: deliberate<br />
deliberate: done consciously & intentionally<br />
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i chose this image from my photos<br />
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when i am @ my most deliberate<br />
i don't hold back<br />
i draw boldly<br />
and engage enthusiastically.<br />
when i am deliberate doors open!<br />
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the summer of 2008,<br />
i studied ART in Italy and Germany.<br />
there i learned to "focus".<br />
there i began the mark-making<br />
that most pleases me:<br />
blind contour and contour drawings.<br />
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i focus on the line,<br />
let my eyes instruct my hand,<br />
allow my brain to be bypassed,<br />
and watch as a simple clarity<br />
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gazing @ the woman<br />
i was almost 5 years ago,<br />
i see myself as i am...<br />
a wanderer<br />
and a beholder of beauty.Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-40432890255452273822012-12-15T08:55:00.000-08:002012-12-15T08:57:28.476-08:00broken open<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"What is asked of us," Raymond John Baughan had said,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"is that we break open our blocked caves and find each other.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Nothing less will heal the anguished spirit</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">or release the heart to act in love."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(quote found while re-reading the Mitford series by Jan Karon)</span>Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-44815314769255005132012-12-12T20:15:00.000-08:002012-12-15T09:42:57.665-08:00over and done<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">one month married.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">that little dance floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">he danced with me once, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">"what kept you from dancing?" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">i want to know why.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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melancholy thoughts<br />
come uninvited<br />
thoughts about a time</div>
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when i held on, but you let go</div>
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silence and wondering on my part</div>
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distance with no explanation needed on your part</div>
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once bright</div>
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Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-63335993522946965472012-08-11T05:05:00.001-07:002012-08-14T15:19:00.270-07:00declaration<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"I will not die an unlived life. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I will not live in fear </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Of falling or catching fire. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I choose to inhabit my days, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> To allow my living to open me, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> To make me less afraid, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> More accessible; </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> To loosen my heart </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Until it becomes a wing, </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I choose to risk my significance, </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> To live so that which came to me as seed </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Goes to the next as blossom, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> And that which came to me as blossom, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Goes on as fruit."</span><br />
~Dawna MarkovaDeborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-43216643867283541102012-08-04T04:52:00.001-07:002012-10-17T03:33:01.948-07:00affinity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">in honor of Diane David,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">my online friend </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">who scooped me up<br />and embraced me </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">from a farm in Vermont!<br />thank you for being </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">calm, consistent, </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">whimsical, & kind~<br />i treasure these gifts </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">that you shared </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and left behind.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Art </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;">gives me a place </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;">to put sorrow </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and work through to optimism." </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">~Diane David</span></span>Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-80718729141204509812012-07-19T14:05:00.000-07:002012-07-19T16:25:46.991-07:00small faith<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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to blog,<br />
to write,<br />
to journal,<br />
to type out my thoughts<br />
allows the privilege of editing<br />
& being sure of what i share.<br />
<br />
to speak<br />
my thoughts<br />
aLOUD<br />
to others<br />
to do so in the moment they are passing by<br />
is<br />
to reveal myself<br />
to risk being known<br />
to dare to be understood or misunderstood.<br />
<br />
i prefer to write rather than to speak.<br />
yet, in times of fear<br />
i speak<br />
uncensored<br />
in order<br />
to hear myself think...<br />
in hope<br />
that some one<br />
will speak<br />
my words<br />
my truth<br />
my small faith<br />
back to me.Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-17329795229300855622012-06-26T07:51:00.000-07:002012-06-26T07:51:46.958-07:00wonder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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murmur: a soft or gentle utterance</div>
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murmuration: a flock of starlings</div>
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<a href="http://www.islandsandrivers.com/our-films/#murmuration">http://www.islandsandrivers.com/our-films/#murmuration</a></div>Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-2573945570205356442012-06-23T07:01:00.001-07:002012-07-19T16:36:48.056-07:00the edge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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the song in its entirety</div>
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is not relevant to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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yet, <o:p></o:p></div>
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the word imagery of Lady Gaga <o:p></o:p></div>
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in one phrase resonates;<o:p></o:p></div>
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a lyrical line <o:p></o:p></div>
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of revelation <o:p></o:p></div>
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& significance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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an intimate space,<o:p></o:p></div>
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a moment of holiness ,<o:p></o:p></div>
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a sense of such goodness,<o:p></o:p></div>
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that I recognize<o:p></o:p></div>
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the One who knows me by name <o:p></o:p></div>
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is present.<o:p></o:p></div>
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~I'm on the edge of glory<o:p></o:p></div>
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and I'm hanging on a moment of truth~<o:p></o:p></div>Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-37624624193319340162012-06-18T10:03:00.000-07:002012-06-18T10:04:24.752-07:00on a dance floor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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a cowboy<br />
danced with me<br />
3 songs in a row, last night.<br />
he was forthright.<br />
he told me how smart he was,<br />
and how wealthy he was,<br />
he told me how good looking & strong.<br />
he told me how talented he was,<br />
while we 2-stepped to the music.<br />
my response after the listening:<br />
"wow, all that and you are humble too."<br />
(i'm not sure he heard me over the noise.)<br />
<br />
i danced with another cowboy<br />
who could not speak but a squeak.<br />
his frame and voice<br />
were altered by some harm or disease.<br />
he motioned "would you like to dance?"<br />
and i accepted.<br />
we danced<br />
3 songs in a row, in silence<br />
and<br />
i felt his confidence<br />
in who he was<br />
as an altered man,<br />
humble, strong, & gracious.<br />
<br />
dancing is a sensory language.<br />
dancing speaks more than movement,<br />
it speaks of character.<br />
last night i learned<br />
that confidence is<br />
a quality that needn't introduce itself.<br />
last night i remembered<br />
that confidence is...<br />
able to carry a person forward<br />
in a steady rhythm<br />
to an unfamiliar tune.Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-67627924150268169892012-06-13T04:25:00.001-07:002012-06-13T04:25:19.581-07:00habitation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />
this summer is a time for nesting<br />
and a time for spreading my wings.<br />
<br />
ART JOURNALING<br />
with no rules<br />
PAINTING<br />
with fingers<br />
SKETCHING<br />
with intuitive marks<br />
READING<br />
with colored pencil underlinings<br />
PRAYING<br />
with wordless prayers<br />
BELIEVING<br />
with small faith<br />
FLYING<br />
in to an open space<br />
unknown, uncharted...<br />
and finding space to nestle in.<br />
<br />Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-22097875542698269642012-06-04T05:55:00.000-07:002012-06-04T05:55:21.418-07:00Late Fragment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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And<br />
did you get<br />
what you wanted from this life,<br />
even so?<br />
<br />
I did.<br />
<br />
And what did you want?<br />
<br />
To call myself beloved,<br />
to feel myself beloved on the earth.<br />
<br />
~Raymond CarverDeborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-23046873528558082942012-05-30T09:49:00.001-07:002012-06-04T09:02:43.407-07:00new habitation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i went back to college @ a merry mature age,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">studying ART for education as my declared/desired major.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">when I graduated from college</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i was surprised by a hiring freeze and no job. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i was then educated by 18 months of substitute teaching</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and surmised to myself </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">that this might be my manner of existence.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i felt like Alice contiually tumbling into the unknown.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i was shocked when offered a job to teach ART...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">with gratitude and excitement, i accepted the job.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i have been reading: <em>This Time I Dance.</em></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the book has come into my hands at just the right time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The author, Tama, tells a story</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">of pursuing her desire to be a writer</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">through a series of essays.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i found the following excerpt to be particularly meaning-full this a.m.</span></div>
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<i>>Okay, I hate to break it to you, but get ready for maddening days. You've just leaped from an established life and you're all gung ho -crazed really- to begin a new established life and yet, what's this, you suddenly can't heave yourself out of bed and it takes you eight hours to finish your "morning" coffee. All your spirit has fizzled and you're moving in slow motion and now you've started to scare yourself into thinking that maybe this is it: You really are incompetent and you've just started your brand new futile life.</i></div>
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<i>Well, please stop terrorizing yourself. You're right on track. I know you want to do, do, do. But this time asks of you your "undoing". Floating without a context or a business card. Unleashing tears you may have shunned for years. Dying to your shell and inhabiting life with sudden sensitivity. Yes, you will kick up every value, belief, hope, and doubt. But what settles down creates your new, solid ground.<</i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">thank you, Tama, for your transparency,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">for truly i have just experienced 3 such days!</span></div>Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-9892776103247131332012-05-30T06:48:00.001-07:002012-05-30T07:42:38.506-07:00this time I dance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />
"It's the unencumbered mind or child self<br />
that retains our joy and the connection<br />
to things unseen, but known."<br />
<br />
above quote from:<br />
<i>This Time I Dance</i> by Tama J Kieves,<br />
trusting the journey<br />
of creating the work you love.<br />
A friend coaxed me to read the book,<br />
I am now recommending it to you!<br />
<br />Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-54509575741440833242012-05-14T06:08:00.000-07:002012-05-14T09:31:40.520-07:00ART is education.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />
long ago,<br />
I had a <a href="http://charlottenesmithbrady.com/">high school ART teacher</a><br />
who believed that creativity lived in me.<br />
she taught me more than ART.<br />
she taught me about<br />
diversity,<br />
and quiet,<br />
and thinking bigger than my surroundings.<br />
now,<br />
40 years later<br />
I have been given the opportunity<br />
to teach high school ART.<br />
I am full of excitement<br />
to be with students this coming fall<br />
and teach them about<br />
diversity,<br />
and quiet,<br />
and thinking bigger than their surroundings.<br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 150%;">Invitation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 150%;">If you are a
dreamer, come in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 150%;">If you are a
dreamer, a wisher, a liar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 150%;">A hope-er, a
pray-er, a magic bean buyer…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 150%;">If you’re a
pretender, come sit by my fire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 150%;">For we have
some flax golden tales to spin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 150%;">Come
in! Come in!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 150%;">(Shel
Silverstein)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-84798621200921414242012-05-12T06:21:00.001-07:002012-05-14T09:29:39.887-07:00of value to me...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />
restoration & transformation<br />
are of value to me.<br />
i am<br />
drawn<br />
to<br />
the once<br />
& potential beauty of<br />
lost, damaged, broken, discarded, neglected<br />
places, people & things.<br />
i am<br />
not alone<br />
in this pursuit.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://blogs.soartists.com/ArtMatters/2011/07/21/reverse-graffiti-south-african-artists-create-clean-murals/">http://blogs.soartists.com/ArtMatters/2011/07/21/reverse-graffiti-south-african-artists-create-clean-murals/</a><br />
<br />
this reverse graffiti link<br />
is to celebrate<br />
all<br />
who see what can be!<br />
<br />
<br />Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-70196781035534089782012-05-05T08:38:00.002-07:002012-05-05T10:01:47.376-07:00"right as a morning in May"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />
this morning i saw the following video & felt whole and new.<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPSAgs-exfQ&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPSAgs-exfQ&feature=related</a><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
the footage creates a link for me</div>
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to one of my favorite poems by Philip Booth, "first lesson".</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Lie back daughter, </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">let your head be tipped back in the cup of my hand.<br />Gently, and I will hold you. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Spread your arms wide, lie out on the stream and look high at the gulls. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">A dead-man's float is face down. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">You will dive and swim soon enough where this tidewater ebbs to the sea. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Daughter, believe me, when you tire on the long thrash to your island, lie up, </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> and survive.<br />As you float now, </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">where I held you and let go, </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">remember when fear cramps your heart what I told you:<br />lie gently and wide to the light-year stars, lie back, and the sea will hold you. </span></div>Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-72845107535389118772012-04-18T07:40:00.002-07:002012-04-18T07:42:28.606-07:00gloria patri<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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glory be to the Father<br />
and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost~<br />
as it was in the beginning,<br />
is now and ever shall be<br />
world without end<br />
amen, amen.Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-9344355888218680972012-04-16T12:08:00.003-07:002012-04-18T07:29:57.772-07:00ARTwork<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />
I am excited<br />
to be enrolled in class again this spring~<br />
continuing ART education is the best!<br />
Soul Restoration 2 has begun.<br />
The class is offered by <a href="http://bravegirlsclub.com/">Melody Ross</a><br />
and runs April 17th to May 28th.<br />
I am a "brave girl"<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #99cc00; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">creating </span></em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #99cc00; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the life I want to live… </span></em></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #99cc00; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the </span></em><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #99cc00; font-size: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">life I will LOVE!</span></em></span>Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-20115925151399269802012-04-11T07:50:00.000-07:002012-04-11T07:52:33.304-07:00believe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.scoutiegirl.com/2012/04/makers-are-messengers.html">Tara Gentile</a> quote:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the message</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you are</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">speaking</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">through</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">what you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">create</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is exactly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the message</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">someone</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is waiting</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to hear</span><br />
<br />Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1460916891083884787.post-56283513640425134222012-04-04T06:57:00.000-07:002012-04-04T06:57:15.284-07:00heartsease<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebyHP_FLsAjOwvcLUsETpw4uUW-tVBpC1L7gGYP_uxUBlafe_U4KhRBShs5tRPMhmu-LGflGJAXwzAXOfVh9X2c8uxFpzfwi-awNGwEy6K6oIvh89tIRawUDQYW-jwxkXhxqLLxCKwjLf/s1600/alterations.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebyHP_FLsAjOwvcLUsETpw4uUW-tVBpC1L7gGYP_uxUBlafe_U4KhRBShs5tRPMhmu-LGflGJAXwzAXOfVh9X2c8uxFpzfwi-awNGwEy6K6oIvh89tIRawUDQYW-jwxkXhxqLLxCKwjLf/s320/alterations.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“let go”<br />
a simple action and ascent of my will.<br />
my mind agrees with the wisdom<br />
there is no other course!<br />
yet my emotions, my heart, my soul, my spirit,<br />
cling tight and struggle with 2 little words.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1em; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">sometimes an altered life<br />
continues to be snipped & sewn & reworked<br />
and there is wondering<br />
about who & where i will be<br />
when all these alterations are complete.</div>Deborah Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15717999907595084525noreply@blogger.com2