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Rituals of again + over and over
Art is what happens when you dare to be who you really are. ~Emily Freeman I feel like I have fallen … and I can’t get up. I will … eventually. But I have decided to honor the falling — the not...
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Day 40 // life as art + living out loud
Everything you can imagine is real. ~Pablo Picasso Right brain planning is not about planning; it is about allowing one’s life to become art. To observe and utilize the time for living out loud —...
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Day 34 // now I become myself
Alive to the loving past / She conjures her own, nothing is wholly lost ~May Sarton This post — written on a day that feels like a Day One of significant value and meaning — is a declaration. I am...
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Day 27 // blue + Bluets
2. And so I fell in love with a color—in this case, the color blue—as if falling under a spell, a spell I fought to stay under and get out from under, in turns. ~Maggie Nelson, Bluets I am abiding...
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Day 19 // shadow & contrast
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. ~Sylvia Plath I am abiding with shadow and contrast for Art Every Day Month. Seeking out reflections of darkness within light and...
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creativity and the wild ride of resistance {and depression}
Art for Day 1 Dear Bright Side: After repeated attempts to look at you this morning, I admit it continues to be a struggle. That is all. After tweeting that … and my eyes filling with tears of...
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creativity and letting go
Art for Day 3 It is my intention to honor the emotions of my {living} but there are times when {letting go} feels like a free fall into an abyss … I know the cycles. I know the Truth. But … sometimes...
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creativity and white space
allowing space for {you} You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. -Anne Wilson Schaef Space is the breath of art. -Frank Lloyd Wright The white space of time — as we move in...
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creativity and fighting your way through
It’s remarkable what we can accomplish when we give up the fantasy of unlimited time. -Julia Cameron Art for Day 5 // duty or play? Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same:...
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creativity and the privilege of connection
Art for Day 6 The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don’t lead to permission and trust. The privilege of...
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creativity and facing forward
Art for Day 7 The most confused you will get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. -Shannon L. Adler Art for Day 7 The tiny cost of failure is dwarfed...
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My Week 45 // gluebooks as planning pages
What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul. -Johann Friedrich Von Schiller Although the past two weeks have been a faith walk in darkness, today I post from a place of clarity and...
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cycles and benefits; Spirit
My hand-stitched wings itch to take flight to test the winds of change that inevitably blow at the end of a cycle – B.G. Bowers, from Death and Life The winds of change // personal. seasonal....
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cycles, trust and disguises
We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims “Who do you trust?” I...
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cycles and comparison
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. -Ralph Waldo Emerson,...
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cycles and progress
in-progress I have mentioned this before but gluebooks are the way I play and plan, each collection of collage paper feels like a visual representation of my thought process. Art Every Day Month has...
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cycles and expeditions
Art for Day 13 The lie is a short-cut through another’s personality. … Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze itself; it has to be created between people. -Adrienne Rich Yesterday’s...
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cycles of {less}
Art for Day 14 The day was marvelous, my Day 14 of Art Every Day Month. However … I have only a few images to share with you — but I am okay with that. ♥ Less is more … It is liberating. The day...
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My Week 46 // gluebooks & community as a way to process layers
My moments are rich with meaning and beauty and terror and truth, and then they are absorbed back into the whole. The significance is not lost, but right now I seem to be unable to speak of the tree...
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right brain planning and glue-booking
Art for Day 15 // bits of thought A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective. -John Argenti This gluebook page was created Saturday while I...
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