Art for Day 20
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. -Mary Oliver, In Blackwater Woods
Art for Day 20 is a page of several layers of collage. As I began piecing it together, it felt like prayer — a reaching out for healing within.
Prayer is inviting connection, something I needed as I began my day yesterday. Something I needed in order to {release} and to get to what Michael Nobbs refers to as Important Work; to realign The Vital in the midst of various distractions and out-of-perspective work details.
Prayer is release … and tearing bits of paper is a means of tactile releasing and meditation. Seeing how the elements fit together on the page to create a whole was like weaving, piecing together a color-full page of hope.
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To let go of something is when hope begins. -Anne Lamott
Listening to Anne Lamott readily admit her worry and control issues during her presentation on Tuesday was stabilizing. Her candor is always healing for those of us who feel the same but often at a lost of words to express our suffering-to-be-Real, our efforts to receive hope — to choose our-self in a menagerie of options.
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Prayer reminds of what we know.
“Ripening is a softening and it is divinely determined … It cannot be hurried without compromised results.” This was my reminder of what I know as I created the gluebook page for Day 20.
Yesterday, I posted “part 1″ of these ideas: prayers and letting go … ♥
During the month of November I will be posting glimpses of my art every day …
I prepped a new gluebook for this month’s art. If you would like to see visual tutorials and read more about glue-booking, click here.
P.S. Use hashtag #tajgluebook on Instagram to connect with other women who use glue-booking as means of art journaling.
