I printed this image in sepia because of the subject matter
#24: The ancestors in the guestroom
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Category Archives: Days 11 through 20
Day 19
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
“Something Wicked this way comes…” A hectic piece – Day #20
Hope this works…been trying to post for half the day! If works will give more info about piece but tired of typing! Lol!
“Something Wicked this way comes”…Day #19
I am creating my work using a single image that pops in my head every time I sit at the drawing table to work.
It has been very difficult to say the least!
Also during this time we have created the Republic Arts Council to help my small mining community of Republic, Michigan. We are trying to begin an Annual Arts & Crafts Festival here to aid in growing the community before it is gone…that has been tough but we forge ahead every day!
Two books underway
Two, another-time-once-begun-and-irregularly-worked-on books are scheduled to be submitted May or June. One almost sold twice but now needs updating and a ruthless editing done to it -and footnotes researched. The other evolves. I’m much clearer about the process these past 2-3 years. I understand how to approach the books now….the negative critical brain is banished and the helpful critical brain is here.
All of my illustrations are being re-designed. Even this one to fit the new page spread design better.
Diana
Touching the sacred- day 13
Day 13- Sunday 2/2/14
Silent meditation during church service today- reflecting on stillness and how for me it’s so much easier to touch the sacred when I’m outside in nature alone. But what about when it’s hectic and I’m busy rushing about? At work, with others? As the saying goes, “It’s easy to be a holy man on the mountaintop, but not so easy in the marketplace.”
Listened to song, taking about “right beneath your eyes, right in your own backyard.” Reminded me of Gangaji, Diamond in Your Pocket story about how the treasure we seek for everywhere is in our own pocket. Or the story about the “treasure being buried in our own backyard.” Is it possible that this is also true regarding the nurturing rapport with sacred? My 100 day exploration is about touching the sacred- is it possible that the portal to that, ability to do it, invoke it, bathe in it, is always with me, in my pocket, in my own backyard, even when I’m in the “marketplace”?
I love this quote:
“For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Fortunately there is more to this day than musing- I spent the last daylight near sunset outside snowshoeing- stillness, body working hard in deep snow, in awe of the beauty, light, and nature. “Thank you. I am here.”